God bless them all, but especially the grunts. If you want to read a very good description of the heroism and what the grunts of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment endured in Falluja, read In Falluja, Young Marines Saw the Savagery of an Urban War.
From a patriotic journalist, as opposed to that POS Kevin Sites:
>"...What unites these two scenes is the obvious fact, which still bears repeating, that we are trying to plant the seeds of decent, consensual government in some very harsh soil. We are not doing nation building in Iraq. That presumes that there was already a coherent nation there and all that is needed is a little time and security for it to be rebuilt. We are actually doing nation creating.
We are trying to host the first attempt in the modern Arab world for the people of an Arab country to, on their own, forge a social contract with one another. Despite all the mistakes made, that is an incredibly noble thing."<
Wow. From the NY Times? It's almost hopeful!