To: rlmorel
No, this is a good letter...
Highest Unit Re-enlistment Rate — Any outfit that has been in Iraq recently. All the danger, all the hardship, all the time away from home, all the horror, all the frustrations with the fight here — all are outweighed by the desire for young men to be part of a band of brothers who will die for one another. They found what they were looking for when they enlisted out of high school. Man for man, they now have more combat experience than any Marines in the history of our Corps.
13 posted on
10/18/2006 10:11:03 AM PDT by
ichabod1
(Face it, every empire comes to an end, and ours is on the down hill slope.)
To: ichabod1
"Man for man, they now have more combat experience than any Marines in the history of our Corps." I doubt that...
Semper Fi
16 posted on
10/18/2006 10:17:33 AM PDT by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: ichabod1
Thanks for pointing that out...I should qualify my disparagement.
I do not read Time anymore. That was a comment directed at Time, not really the individual anonymous letter. It is likely genuine.
It is their motivation in printing it that I take issue with.
17 posted on
10/18/2006 10:19:02 AM PDT by
rlmorel
(Islamofacism: It is all fun and games until someone puts an eye out. Or chops off a head.)
To: ichabod1
Rats! Beat me to it. That's what I get for being distracted when I was writing my post! ;-p
20 posted on
10/18/2006 10:21:43 AM PDT by
batter
("Never let the enemy pick the battle site." - Gen. George S. Patton)
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