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To: Ed Straker

"I'd trade that medal for a chance to go back there."


Overcome.

Semper Fi MARINE!

Tet68


2 posted on 06/05/2004 8:23:08 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

I bought that young man a lotta beers at the Lancaster Post 311 American Legion 5 days before he went back to Iraq. He and his best friend (a Marine Reserve from Oklahoma ) were there waiting for his girlfriend to get off work at Edwards

He impressed me that night as a hell of a Marine. I'm more impressed now. His friend had travelled from Oklahoma to see him before he went back for his second tour. On his first tour, he'd been a scout in an L.A.V. platoon that went into Bagdad.


12 posted on 06/05/2004 12:51:02 PM PDT by stumpy
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