Posted on 07/03/2012 8:40:34 PM PDT by verum ago
To all the people moping and crying and declaring that all is lost: please read this Medal of Honor citation:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty at Saipan, Mariana Islands, 19 June to 7 July 1944. When his entire company was held up by fire from automatic weapons and small-arms fire from strongly fortified enemy positions that commanded the view of the company, Sgt. (then Pvt.) Baker voluntarily took a bazooka and dashed alone to within 100 yards of the enemy. Through heavy rifle and machinegun fire that was directed at him by the enemy, he knocked out the strong point, enabling his company to assault the ridge. Some days later while his company advanced across the open field flanked with obstructions and places of concealment for the enemy, Sgt. Baker again voluntarily took up a position in the rear to protect the company against surprise attack and came upon 2 heavily fortified enemy pockets manned by 2 officers and 10 enlisted men which had been bypassed. Without regard for such superior numbers, he unhesitatingly attacked and killed all of them. Five hundred yards farther, he discovered 6 men of the enemy who had concealed themselves behind our lines and destroyed all of them. On 7 July 1944, the perimeter of which Sgt. Baker was a part was attacked from 3 sides by from 3,000 to 5,000 Japanese. During the early stages of this attack, Sgt. Baker was seriously wounded but he insisted on remaining in the line and fired at the enemy at ranges sometimes as close as 5 yards until his ammunition ran out. Without ammunition and with his own weapon battered to uselessness from hand-to-hand combat, he was carried about 50 yards to the rear by a comrade, who was then himself wounded. At this point Sgt. Baker refused to be moved any farther stating that he preferred to be left to die rather than risk the lives of any more of his friends. A short time later, at his request, he was placed in a sitting position against a small tree. Another comrade, withdrawing, offered assistance. Sgt. Baker refused, insisting that he be left alone and be given a soldier's pistol with its remaining 8 rounds of ammunition. When last seen alive, Sgt. Baker was propped against a tree, pistol in hand, calmly facing the foe. Later Sgt. Baker's body was found in the same position, gun empty, with 8 Japanese lying dead before him. His deeds were in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Army.
No surrender for me. I’ve got kids and grandkids that will have to deal with this crap if I don’t.
The above is from the Declaration of Independence.
People will put up with a lot of grief, before they directly oppose their government.
Obama, the Democrats, the media, most Republicans and the government bureaucracy are all trying to see just how far they can push American citizens before those citizens take other action to free themselves from the yoke the above have placed on them.
Seems like half the folks on this thread need a swift kick in the ass.
Sgt. Baker died in the face of on rushing Jap soldiers, and made every bullet count.
He had dreams of America also. On the day he died, he knew there was no hope for him, but there would be an America back home that he would be sacrificing himself for.
Here, it’s all melancholy over losing what was.
Well, it is never going to get fixed if we ALL don’t get it in gear and do something about it.
We have four months to save the country.
Pray for America and for God’s grace on our land, and get up and get going.
Teach your kids and grand kids why this is the greatest country on earth.
Well over a million Sgt. Bakers have made it free and kept it free.
And they weren’t sunshine patriots.
The least we can do is honor them and fight for the shining city on a hill that is America.
Four months left to save America. Stop griping and get moving!
Seems like half the folks on this thread need a swift kick in the ass.
Sgt. Baker died in the face of on rushing Jap soldiers, and made every bullet count.
He had dreams of America also. On the day he died, he knew there was no hope for him, but there would be an America back home that he would be sacrificing himself for.
Here, it’s all melancholy over losing what was.
Well, it is never going to get fixed if we ALL don’t get it in gear and do something about it.
We have four months to save the country.
Pray for America and for God’s grace on our land, and get up and get going.
Teach your kids and grand kids why this is the greatest country on earth.
Well over a million Sgt. Bakers have made it free and kept it free.
And they weren’t sunshine patriots.
The least we can do is honor them and fight for the shining city on a hill that is America.
Four months left to save America. Stop griping and get moving!
Take away the structural deficits of Social Security and Medicare, and even Obama couldn't do too much to kill off this economy.
We the people are also curious about ourselves, how much we will take, are willing to suffer, or tolerate, before we push back.
I think about America’s slow awakening at WWII, which exacerbated
the losses to Great Britain, how grand the scale had to become understanding that God surely knew the price for that delay.
Sadly, it always seems to take mortal fear for our very lives before man is willing to engage in a correction, thus resistance becomes more costly than if we had reacted early on.
Truthfully, if the Republicans are going to coronate a socialist at their convention, and then vote for him at the ballot box, after hearing the leaders announce that Obamacare will be very hard to repeal, it is doubtful who among us silly rubes would be willing to resist anything and actually secede, but yes, secession seems to be the only viable recourse, given the lack of brains and will to come up with anything else.
We are voting largely for malaise, not for meaningful change.
Awesome post. My kid is fighting the Muslims, and the crybabys are whining about all is lost. What a bunch of sissies. I stand with you and my son.
Amen!
That's right he's worse; Obama has some sense of what he stands for, Romney does not. Romney is a wind-sock who will do whatever the political winds blow, and let me ask this: WHICH WAY DO THE POLITICAL WINDS IN DC BLOW?
That is the city that arrests military men for having "unregistered ammunition."
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