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 ...
There are Perfumed Generals, Political Generals and Grunt Generals......
General Pace is a Marine Grunt General...of the highest order.
He could not leave the “battlefield” of active duty before honoring his lost.
This he accomplished with dignified class that did his men proud.
Men never forget the names, faces or voices of brothers they failed to keep alive...
Few non Vietnam veterans can grasp the incredible nearness one feels when in the presence of that cold stone Wall on the Mall...
In the darkness and stillness of pre-dawn, one can still hear the voices and cries of our beloved lost....
Their voices and faces are those of the eternally young and painfully missed.
Even more that their individual burial sites — the Wall is sanctuary to us all — together and still covering each others six.
It will be the rendezvous point for all, in the near future..
Semper Fi General!
“Wrongo! Heres the CNN clip of the Gen Paces notes.”
Well, I guess it’s time to go for the “fall-back” position
of being “a big enough man to admit I’m wrong”.
I guess CNN must be getting some sort of message given the ratings
(advertizing $$$) they make from Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs.
So they do occassionally try to look like an American operation.
And realized they’ve got to occassionally take a break from being the
“International Pan-Arabist Jihad And Che-Worshipping” News Network.
Not trying to get you to “admit Im wrong.”
Just showing that it’s there.
Nothing more; nothing less
——The lance corporals death also had a profound impact on the young lieutenant. We were on patrol one day outside Da Nang, and Guido was killed by a sniper, Pace said. As I stayed with him, a sense of rage came through me, and as the platoon leader, I started calling an artillery strike on the village where the round had been fired.
My platoon sergeant, who was my age 21 or 22 — didnt say anything at all, Pace said. He just looked at me. And I knew in the look that he gave me that what I was doing was wrong. -————
General Pace in his resignation speech also humbly thanked his staff(?) sergeant and all the other sergeants all along the way for not just giving him information, but for telling him what he needed to know. (Or something like that). I wonder if that wording is referring to this incident and no doubt many others of similar nature where difficult decisions need to be made.
“Not trying to get you to admit Im wrong.”
LOL! I didn’t take it bad at all!
I was being facetious...and admitting you’d come up with the goods!
Thanks for that link.
And, if someone would have told me a couple of years ago that I’d be
watching about 10 hours of CNN programming a week...I’d have told
them they were crazy!
A true man of honor.
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Bless this man. May his number increase!This is what command is like. Give me a Pete Pace to a Sanchez anyday. He makes me proud to be an American...
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace hugs U.S. Marine 1st Lt. Andrew Kinard at the Pentagon Sept. 27, 2007, following his final press conference as chairman. Pace, who will be retiring Sept. 30, 2007, after more than 40 years of service, will be turning over his position as chairman to U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen Oct. 1, 2007. Kinard, who lost both legs to an improvised explosive device in Iraq, now works at the Pentagon. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
I'm over come with emotion.
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Pace, the man who should be President.
Just WOW!
This is the man who Bush was scared to renominate because the scumbag Democrats were prepared to toast him like a marshmallow. You don’t know who to be more ashamed of.
Any mistakes in this post are due to the tears currently flowing.
We lost a great leader when we allowed Pete to be pushed overboard.
TC
A whole photo essay of the Joint Staff honoring him on his last day:
http://www.defenselink.mil/PhotoEssays/photoessay.aspx?id=446&Page=1&Count=6
God bless you, Sir.
I’m trying all I can to keep the tears from flowing at work.
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