[dk/coro]

Rebel, As I read this thread -- and imagined what these marvelous Marines have been going through these past weeks, I could not help but compare their ordeals to Kerry and his contemptible performance in SEA.

Can you imagine that man as POTUS? The mere though send cold chills down my spine.

[Wooly]

As was portrayed in the movie Saving Private Ryan, compassion on the battlefield can lead to yours or a comrades death.
I also remember seeing a documentary about the battles in the Pacific during WWII that the lack of prisoners for interrogation got so bad that the command was offering a reward for a live Japanese Soldier, since they were a lot like the sand rats we are fighting in Iraq.