Ben Stein's Last Column... Military Heros

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[StarCMC]

A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad.

Pinging everyone I have on any pinglist to this article. It's a must-read.

[Kitten Festival]

Didn't he write this three years ago. I love Morton's, by the way, it's my favorite LA restaurant, they are really nice over there and they don't cost too much and the place is really pretty.

[kevinm13]

CelticIrish, So sorry to hear of your mother's passing. My father passed last November. We arrived at the hospital in Florida about 20 minutes after he passed after traveling from New Jersey. The timing and his passing was heartbreaking to the family.

Your guiding principal of not just telling somebody that you love them but showing them is one that my dad would have embraced and is a great one for all of us to follow.

[jazusamo]

Excellent post, Ben Stein gets it.

[Gucho]

Ben Stein's Last Column... Military Heros

Ping!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[jslade]

What a simply great man!

[Blue Highway]

Good read.

[blackie]

Ben Stein is a treasure!

[bnelson44]

A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad. He approached it, and the bomb went off and killed him.

A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad.

[Alex Murphy]

Ping to read later

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad.

Chills.

God bless Ben Stein!

[Christian4Bush]

bttt

[Romanov]

Wow. Just Wow.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Excellent column. Hats off to Ben Stein yet again. I feel the exact same way as he does. We all do here.

[ladyinred]

A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad. He approached it, and the bomb went off and killed him. A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad.

BTTT for the real heroes of the USA!

[jackv]

Thanks for pinging it around. Love your tagline!!

[StarCMC]

You're welcome and thanks! My tagline came from this letter from SGT Mark Russak to the Traitor. :-)

[jackv]

ooooh this just steams me. This traitor absolutely MUST be defeated! I will also pass this link around.
My son graduates this very morning in Ft. Huachuca, AZ in the intelligence program. I can hardly wait to see him tomorrow. (Can't fly all the way out for the graduation unfortunately). He will then be stationed in Ft. Bragg, NC, and may soon go to Iraq. This pig, murtha, makes me so sick. As a soldier mom I take his comments very very personally!!
As an interesting note, my niece's boyfriend just got in Iraq(USMC). Before leaving he sat her down with the rest of his family and told them..."DO NOT believe anything you hear on TV".
How sad...but true!
Thanks Star. You're a great American!!