Posted on 04/08/2012 11:29:25 AM PDT by smoothsailing
The only reason the Left in this country was in favor of getting involved in WWII was that Poor ol’ Uncle Joe Stalin was under attack. Otherwise when were they for us helping anybody in the past hundred years???
(Quote) You cannot always remain a witness, above and removed from the story you are covering. There are some events which demand your participation. The battle of Landing Zone XRay was one such event in my life. I will not here recount every event of that battle which continued until the afternoon of November 16-—and was then followed by an even more horrific battle called Landing Zone Albany which virtually destroyed a sister battalion, the 2nd Battalion 7th Cavalry. At LZ XRay 80 men died and 124 were wounded, many of them terribly. At LZ Albany 155 Americans were killed and another 121 wounded, most of them in the space of six hours time. Four days-—234 Americans killed. Perhaps as many as 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers of the 33rd, 320th and 66th Regiments also died there, by our hand.
It was a watershed event in the American war in Vietnam. At that point 1,100 Americans had died in Vietnam. Before the war ended a total of 58,200 made the supreme sacrifice for our country.
I left XRay the way I had arrived, aboard a Huey helicopter flown by Bruce Crandall, Ancient Serpent 6. But none of us who survived left there the same man he was when he arrived. We had been drenched in blood and horror. I had heard the command “Fix Bayonets!” and seen men use those bayonets on other men. I had carried both the wounded and dead, hauled ammo and water, and, yes, on occasion I put down my cameras and picked up my rifle and used it. (End Quote)
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0204/galloway4.htm
Yup, according to that article he did indeed say he picked up a weapon and used it.
Can you imagine what would happen to any journalist who tells the American public he could have prevented an ambush of American troops but chose not to just to get a story? Public hanging would be too good for him.
While living I cannot personally remember the immediate period before Hitler invaded Russia. I was simply too young. However, my folks remember the left supporting Hitler then having a 180 degree turn about upon Hitler’s invasion of Russia. This sudden change in behavior by the Communists alienated a lot of fellow travelers.
when an American is traveling with the enemy...Hes no longer an American...hes the enemy!!!
The Associated Press & the rest of the media tries to make it a difficult, moral decision. It is not, it is simple & straight forward, they are the enemy.
sfl
yep
Yep 1968-76 was the transition
>> One good Marine is a more worthy American than 1,000 Mike Wallaces will ever be.
Agreed 1,000 times over.
Be nice if they would at least report accurately, rather than bend the facts to fit their agenda. Look no farther than their handling/distortion of the shooting of Trevon Martin by Zimmerman. Starting with calling Zimmerman white, when his mother is Peruvian, and by the looks of him, with a lot of Andes Indian.
All in support of the Obama agenda, of gun control, stricter laws against the use of force in self defense, etc, etc and of course his re-coronation.
Hopefully Wallace met General George S. Patton and Audie Murphy at the Pearly Gates, and got his @ss booted down into the hottest cauldron that Hell has to offer.
Wallace and Jennings...I don’t miss either one of the lying SOBs.
More precisely, by providing propaganda coverage for the enemy side (since they would only be allowed to come along in exchange for favorable coverage), he is giving "aid and comfort to the enemy", which is punishable by death.
As a practical approach, I would regard enemy-embedded reporters as invisible, in that I would not be deterred by their presence before opening fire.
Reporters Liberal Agendas First, Americans Second
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There, fixed it!
Please listen to this audio clip. It was recorded at about 3:30 a.m. on June 6, 1944.
Go to the 60:00 mark and listen to Herbert M. Clark’s dispatch from London. He was on a ship in the English Channel as it made its way to the Normandy coast.
http://archive.org/download/Complete_Broadcast_Day_D-Day/Complete_Broadcast_Day_440606_Part_001.mp3
Thanks for posting this.
Clark certainly understood, didn’t he? To paraphrase; “My loyalty to those of you listening back home is superceded by my loyalty to those sailors and soldiers on these ships”. He had no intention of broadcasting anything that could be intercepted and used by the Germans to harm the Allied invasion.
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