US Marine Colonel Simcock.... asking for 6,000 positive emails to his Marines

Charlie Daniel Message Board ^ | Colonel Simcock

[PeterPrinciple]

From: Colonel Simcock, USMC"US Marine Colonel Simcock, the commander of USMC Regimental Combat Team 6 in Iraq, is asking for 6,000 positive emails to his Marines.

That's one email for each Marine in his RCT command. COL Simcock is concerned about the effect of the negative barrage that those Marines are getting through the electronic media.

This is the email address to send the emails to.

RCT-6lettersfromh@gcemnf-wiraq.usmc.mil

"If you're reading this email, then you can probably click on the address, type a few words, and then hit "send" to be all done.

It doesn't have to be the Gettysburg Address. Something as simple as "Hello, Marine, We thank you for what you're doing”.

“You are in a noble task. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Best wishes & get home soon" is more than sufficient.

I find that the part I put in bold is the most offensive. Whether you agree with the war or not, to send a "barrage of negative messages through electronic media" to our troops is utterly outrageous. It is not the war that is demoralizing them, it is the negative barrage of messages through electronic media as per their own commander.

Do people NOT understand that our troops, in this day and age of the internet, are seeing what you are saying…. and so are our enemies?

These morons deliberately ignore that simple basic concept as they are spewing their hatred.

Our troops need to know we appreciate them and all they do for us.

Is it THAT hard to actually give them that support?

For some it seems to be. They should be ashamed of themselves.

EMAIL A MARINE. Tell them how much they mean to us. Take 30 seconds right now and just do it, ok?

Thank you.

[Steve Van Doorn]

I sent:
Let’s be honest there are idiots back home that doesn’t understand what you are doing and will anything they can to bad mouth what you are doing.

Without men like you in the US military there would be no freedoms that Australia, Britain, Germany, France, Japan or dozens of other countries has today. Yes, there was descent even during WWII and every war we fought, the difference is now our marines are able to read their crap through the net.

None of these people would be able to say anything nasty about you with out what you and marines like yourself has done. Freedom has its price and you paid in your blood (hopefully not in your blood) and sweat, none of these people know or understand the price of freedom they never did and most of them never will.

No amount of thanks will ever be enough for your service.

Thank you
Steve Van Doorn
LA California

[Mrs.Liberty]

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