Posted on 10/14/2011 8:39:39 PM PDT by martosko
It was the news the world breathlessly waited for immediately after the 9/11 terror attacks: a report of the first American troops on the ground in Afghanistan.
All at once the world’s attention focused on an iconic photo of those Special Operations Forces doing something no American military had done in nearly a century: They rode horses into combat.
Their secret mission: secure northern Afghanistan by advising the warring tribal factions that formed the Northern Alliance. During the 2011 Veterans Day Parade on November 11, a new monument to these men — and to all Americans in uniform — will make its way down New York City’s famed Fifth Avenue on the way to its final home, a stone’s throw from Ground Zero.
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Agreed! I remember seeing videos of our troops on horses.
HohRah!
I wish my grandpa was still around to see this. He was part of the last mounted regiment, the 5th Cav in WWII in the Philippines.
This is wonderful. I’m so glad there’s going to be a monument to those incredibly brave horse soldiers. :)
Wow! What an awesome looking monument.
Great video. Thanks for posting.
Wow, amazing video. Thanks for posting this on FR for us!
You’ll appreciate this.
I wish I could share it with my mother. She sent me the first photos of our special forces on horseback in 2001.
Thanks for posting.
Stay safe over there and God Bless you...
I highly recommend the book “Horse Soldiers” by Doug Stanton. You won’t put it down until you have finished it. This book goes into the entire operation and the heroic acts of these great American Warriors.
As an aside, my uncle was an Army captain of grunts, and as I recall once hearing, he saw 53 straight days of combat in the Philippine theater. He was also captain and QB of his college football team, as was his younger brother.
Every now and then, an article that makes you feel good is posted on FR.
Sometimes those articles remind you of the reasons and examples of why you are proud to be an American.
You, martosko, found and posted one of those articles.
Thank you, thank you very much......
This is really good stuff. Go to the link and watch the video. Interview with some of the Green Berets who were with the Northern Alliance in the early days in Afghanistan.
Fantastic video. Awe-inspiring.
Wonderful post. Thanx.
Maybe they could take a swing through Zucotti Park and clean out that infestation of vermin too.
This statue is great. It is what a monument to our fighting men and women should look like, not some of the PC garbage that’s out there.
Here in DC, the Vietnam soldiers statutes are wonderful. To me, much more meaningful about Vietnam than the Wall.
If you have ever seen the South Vietnamese soldiers’ memorial statue in downtown Saigon (before the Reds blew it up), you know what I mean.
All these monuments should be the size of the Iwo Jima Memorial in nearby Rosslyn/Arlington, VA. My father-in-law fought on Iwo in the only Army assault company in the whole invasion. He remembered seeing the flags fly on Suribachi from his base camp near the Marine Cemetary. He gave me a photo of one of the flags. Awe inspiring as the the men who fought there.
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