Posted on 10/16/2007 7:51:31 AM PDT by PurpleMan
"At the Vietnam Wall we saw something unbelievable. We noticed three small index cards at the base of the Wall.
I knelt down for a closer look and noticed that a 4-star general's rank was pinned to each card.
The cards were personally addressed and said something like:
These are Yours - not mine! With Love and Respect, Your Platoon Leader, Pete Pace 1 Oct 2007
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs had laid down his rank for his boys who died in Nam. Oct 1 was the day he stepped down as Chairman."
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
General Pace laid down his rank for his boys who died in Nam.
God Bless You Sir!
Thank you for your service!
Thanks PE.
MINEOLA, N.Y., Sept. 19, 2007 The reason the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff visited Chaminade High School here was on the wall as he entered the building today: a simple plaque with the names of graduates killed in combat. Midway down the list of 55 Chaminade graduates killed in combat was the name Guido Farinaro, Class of 1967, killed in Vietnam in 1968. |
Respect.
This one kind of grabbed me emotionally. All the more so when I read some of the background in Ditto’s posting at #103.
Thank you for bumping 103. I would have missed it.
Thank you for bumping 103. I would have missed it.
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I do not believe he called ANY attention to it...I believe it was a sincere act on his behalf in memory of his fallen Vietnam War buddies and platoon members.
Nothing more or less than that. Someone happened to find the cards and publicise it. The person who found it, if I am not mistaken, does not mention seeing the General actually do it.
A great man...a leader of men and a man of principle and a clear moral compass. God bless him.
Thank you for the link. I’ll use it as the basis for tomorrow’s grammar lesson in my high school English class.
thanks for posting this, it made my day. I had to forward it on to a few friends - to make theirs too.
BTTT
WOW is right. What a class man he is, thank you for your service and may God bless you Peter Pace. Semper Fi
I would not wish the Presidency of the United States on this American hero, he deserves better.
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Why would a guy like the General, want to return to rat infested town like DC., without any weapons. [At least a .45 with lots of ammo!] A place where your friends would put a knife into your back just save their own cushy jobs!
This is the type of man I think of when I ponder the founders of this country.
thnks for that backstory
There has been a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top to the bottom is much more important, and also much less prevalent. It is this loyalty from the top to the bottom which binds juniors to their seniors with the strength of steel.
It is unforgiveable that Bush threw Pace under the bus yet failed to shove the despicable likes of Ike Skelton, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Nancy Pelosi, John Murtha, et al, down the chute to the Yuri I. Nosenko Suite of the Vidkin Quisling Wing of the seventh subterranean level of Leavenworth.
Shall the nation now reelect the dual diablos who loathe the military.
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