Posted on 10/04/2009 8:46:11 AM PDT by jdfromny
COL (ret) Joel Leson fowards this email about a visit to the US Military Academy (West Point):
I visited West Point today for a series of business meetings, mostly with faculty and some with Cadets. Not to go into too much boring detail, but the purpose was to get some feedback for some work my boss and colleagues and I are doing that will (we think and hope) shake up the military's thinking in a positive way.
It was of course the eighth anniversary of 9/11, which was on my mind as I listened to the NY radio stations' remembrance shows on the way up. But once there the only reminder I saw was flags at half-staff. I understand that they had a ceremony earlier in the day but I did not see it.
The meetings went very well. The faculty were receptive and the students were extremely bright and inquisitive.
The day was not all business. We got to see, among other things, the Formation: the entire Corps of Cadets lines up by brigade on down outside the Mess Hall, then they all file in together for lunch. Today it rained like hell. Army regulations say no umbrellas with uniforms, ever. So they get wet.
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MEL’s -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1085111/posts
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My neighbor’s son is in his second year.
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Once a soldier ..and young,
They are still soldiers
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=66978
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” Cadet First Class (i.e., fourth year or senior) _____ _____ announced the death in Afghanistan scarcely a day earlier of 2nd Lt. ______ _______, West Point, Class of 2008.
The dead soldier’s brother is a Cadet Second Class (i.e., third year). A minute of silence was observed.
5,000 people absolutely shut the bleep up.
You could have audiotaped the sound of a single ant’s footfalls in that hall. The announcement was unexpected, jarring, like a punch in the gut.
I almost cried. The Cadets — none of them older than 22, I would guess — did not flinch.
The dead soldier was probably 22 or 23.
He sought out this career knowing he might get shot in some awful desert, and eagerly went anyway.
There were 4,400 kids in that hall who might meet the same fate.
1,100 might meet it in less than a year.
No one at my college ever thought of such a thing,”
Military families all over America, mine included, are apoplectic about our lackadaisical CinC and the deterioration in Afghanistan.
My son’s unit has an unofficial slogan that remembers 9/11 and vows to take the fight to the terrorists.
Unfortunately, it seems the men and women fighting ( well, trying to- except their hands are tied )
are the only ones who understand what is at stake.
The White House and the Democrats obviously don’t understand and don’t care.
“Unfortunately, it seems the men and women fighting ( well, trying to- except their hands are tied )
are the only ones who understand what is at stake.
The White House and the Democrats obviously don’t understand and don’t care.”
The only thing they understand is they want to make America fail and look weak. It will bring about the “change” which they seek.
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The Man Who Predicted 9/11 =
9/11 Lifesaver RICK RESCORLA, R.I.P.
http://www.RickRescorla.com/The%20Statue.htm
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After Sen. TED KENNEDY led a Democrat post-WATERGATE Congress into cutting off all U.S. funding for the then Free South Vietnamese people to fight for their own Freedom with during the Vietnam War,
...came for many poor S.E. Asian souls a most horrid:
JOURNEY from the FALL (Fall of Sagon)
http://www.JourneyFromTheFall.com
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp
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And since Sen. TED KENNEDY personally toured our Freedom-fighting military operations all over a then Free South Vienam at the very begining of the Vietnam War in 1965,
..Sen. TED KENNEDY has always known better than to do what he so selflessly did to so very many later on.
(See 5th Photo down-Sen. TED KENNEDY touring Vietnam’s Central Highlands in 1965)
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BARACK OBAMA furious at General STANLEY McCHRYSTAL speech on Afghanistan
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355173/posts
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Communism in Hawaii and the OBAMA Connection & The Communist Assault on Hawaii
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354945/posts
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For...
...the Enemy is now within
...and always has been.
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Nostalgia for Vietnam
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