Posted on 11/27/2005 2:50:12 PM PST by Valin
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Thank you for posting this....it is a terrific read.
I was SO afraid that the story with the car speeding down the alley would end with the kids getting killed...I am glad that this story didn't end that way...
Unfortunately, a lot of the stories with the troops befriending the kids end up in a very sad way, so I am glad that there are some that don't...and boy did that take guts to do what they did that day....sigh.
It's to bad that some of these soldiers couldn't give their stories in speeches carried by every network...I know just dreaming.
Something I've saying for a while now. The Pentagon needs to get retuning soldiers out on the stump.
This is one of the reasons I so dislike the media, the democrats and all the aging hippies and boomers to whom the demonstrations of the Vietnam war were their high points in life.
My dad was a 30 year veteran of three wars. I lived in the Phillipines and Japan during those years when the crisis was at its peak 1967 to 1971. I used to deliver the Stars and Stripes, a military newspaper.
It was full of stories about the antiwar protests, and how the protesters called men like my father and the fathers of all my friends things like "murderers", "baby-killers" and the like.
My father was an honorable man, doing what he thought was the right thing, as were the fathers of my friends. These were not Soviet or East German guards at Checkpoint Charlie, these were Americans. They took an oath to defend the constitution of the United States and everything that stands for.
These men over there are doing the same thing. God bless them and the job they do.
Great story, thanks for posting! God bless the men and women of the US military and the coalition troops!!!
The media is responsible for honest and unbiased reporting of both sides, or so I was told back in high school journalism class. Much has changed since 1972, I guess.
"I was SO afraid that the story with the car speeding down the alley would end with the kids getting killed...I am glad that this story didn't end that way... "
Me, too, my heart got caught in my throat as I read along, and then, whew!
What brave soldiers we have, they are all my heroes!
WOW!! Where was the hankie alert? Just another positive sotry we won't see in the MSM, huh?
Canteen ping.
Damn those MARINES for making my screen fog up again.....
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God Bless them and all those Brave Men and Woman serving their country in it's time of need.
Good story. Thanks.
A great article - Thanks for the heads up.
Gulp, dab,dab.
I'll believe the military every time. They might lie to me on occasion, but I KNOW that the media will tell whatever lies their Democrat slave-masters tell them to spout.
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OMG - the Cubs MIGHT win the World Series next year. Get the tub ready for Tom.
I don't agree at all. They're looking for an overall verdict all right. One that will harm the President, the military and America the most. They feel that thats their ticket back into power.
"Kidnappings and unclear battle lines have made war correspondents' jobs almost impossible. Travel around the country is dangerous, and some reporters never venture far from their hotels. "It has to have some effect on what we see: You end up with reporting that waits for the biggest explosion of the day," says Mr. Hart."
Ah yes! CNN and it's "Explosion du Jour" I know it well!
Thanks for posting a great story.
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