Posted on 06/18/2006 5:38:11 AM PDT by redstateone
Lt. Col. Mark Mitchell is a Special Forces officer who's been deployed almost nonstop since 9/11. He won the Distinguished Service Cross for leading the action that put down the uprising at the Mazar-e-Sharif prison in Afghanistan in November 2001. (That story is included in the book Home of the Brave: Honoring the Unsung Heroes in the War on Terror, by Caspar Weinberger and Wynton C. Hall.)
Mitchell saw heroic, life-saving efforts by others daily. "It happens all the time, but it's not the type of stuff that gets reported," he says.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
""It happens all the time, but it's not the type of stuff that gets reported,"
Sad, isn't it, that the press loves to bash our soldiers - all the while claiming that they "support the troops." How fortunate that the Washington Post or the New York Times didn't get wind of the fact that the troops were moving in on Iraq's terrorist leader. They would have made certain to put it on the front page in an attempt to warn the terrorists and prevent the possibility of good news on the war front.
Sorry to be a grammar Nazi but shouldn't that be valor? And shouldn't an editor have caught it?
I don't think valiance is a word.
These folks seem to think it is :)
I stand corrected, thanks.
Yet is is a very uncommon word. Someone must have had to use a Thesaurus to find it to use instead of Valor.
"Valiance" is a noun - a word, I'm an editor. When in doubt, I look it up ;o)
You're welcome. I didn't think it was a word either until I checked :)
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