Lance Corporal Abraham McCarver (left), a Marine and Silver Star recipient, is home visiting relatives for the holiday. McCarver is on his third tour in Iraq but is due to get out of the Marines in April. Younger brother Joshua, 20, a West Point cadet, doesn't act too impressed with the hero. At center is dad Daniel, and at far right their grandfather Ken.
Lance Corporal McCarver's award.
What a great story. God bless him, his family and all who serve.
Why doesn't this type of story get more attention?
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This is how those who rightfuly were awarded the Silver Star and their families behave. Got that Sen Kerry!
Great Read on a Young Marine
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Great story!
I didn't make it to church today. That's OK, your post was better than a sermon. Thanks.
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Battle for Fallujah, our warfighters towered in maturity and guts
http://www.talkingproud.us/Military042805.html
No True Glory : A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah (Hardcover)
by Bing West (Valin says, Must read)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553804022/104-4914374-6174369?v=glance&n=283155&s=books&v=glance&tagActionCode=satisfactiong-20
From the Inside Flap
This is the face of war as only those who have fought it can describe it."–Senator John McCain
Fallujah: Iraq’s most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For twenty months, one American battalion after another tried to quell the violence, culminating in a bloody, full-scale assault. Victory came at a terrible price: 151 Americans and thousands of Iraqis were left dead.
The epic battle for Fallujah revealed the startling connections between policy and combat that are a part of the new reality of war.
The Marines had planned to slip out of Fallujah "as soft as fog." But after four American contractors were brutally murdered, President Bush ordered an attack on the city–against the advice of the Marines. The assault sparked a political firestorm, and the Marines were forced to withdraw amid controversy and confusion–only to be ordered a second time to take a city that had become an inferno of hate and the lair of the archterrorist al-Zarqawi.
Based on months spent with the battalions in Fallujah and hundreds of interviews at every level–senior policymakers, negotiators, generals, and soldiers and Marines on the front lines–No True Glory is a testament to the bravery of the American soldier and a cautionary tale about the complex–and often costly–interconnected roles of policy, politics, and battle in the twenty-first century.
Thank God for corporals with more guts than the generals and politicians.
Fallujah should have been incinerated within two days of the bridge incident as an example.