Says it all....
Posted on 07/22/2015 7:10:26 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Marines and sailors risked their lives for one another in Chattanooga last week, trying to distract the gunman who assaulted a naval center, helping people scale a fence for safety and returning fire at the attacker, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday.
Some of the five servicemen who were fatally wounded effectively sacrificed themselves during the assault on Thursday, diverting the gunman away from a larger group of potential victims, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation into the killings.
“This could have been a lot worse,” said the official, who did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation. “It could have been a horrible, horrible massacre — so much worse.”
At a news conference here, the F.B.I. confirmed that at least one service member shot at the attacker, but did not say whether he managed to wound the gunman, Mohammod Abdulazeez, who was killed minutes later in a shootout with the Chattanooga police. . .
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Someone tell the media that this is what ‘heroes’ actually are.
Someone tell the media this is not about someone who was “depressed”.
Well it depressed the media that a muslim terrorist died by a white man’s bullrt.
“Uncommon valor was a common virtue.”
That depressed jihadist was chosen long ago to do this. That is enough to make one depressed knowing he was going to die for nothing.
Wow. The New York Times wrote/edited and then printed this?
Says it all....
Looks like. They dont know the differences in services by evidence of the headline.
Strip away the liberal editorial bent, and the Times actually has some talented journalists. On the (rare) occasions that they stick to basic, hard news reporting, you end up with good, well-written stories like this.
I just love that line...it's a perfect fit for those brave lads.
No one knows how they will act when the chips are down.... I hope that I would be as brave as these heroes.
UGGH!!! There were no soldiers involved! None! Zero! Have some respect.
I hate the left wing lapdog disrespectful media that doesn’t feel the need to look outside their hand fed liberal lives enough to know that each service has a particular name for it’s members.
Arm our armed forces at home. Now. How many times are we going to experience jihad on our soil? How much more are we going to take?
Islam is everybody’s enemy
It took three writers to misidentify Marines as “soldiers”. Hey, NYT, there’s a difference between the Marine Corps and the Army. Look it up. (Semper Fi, Marines, from a former squid)
Maybe it was just the headline writer who had his head up his butt. The article itself does call them Marines.
It’s a shame that accurate journalism based upon, ‘ Who, What, When, Where, Why and How’ (and FACTS) is so RARE that it leaps out at you!
Possibly.
Nah, just one editor. Writers don't typically write their own headlines.
How true....
Nope, not buying it.
This is reported only to support the narrative that the “lone gunman” was “depressed” and allegedly didn’t care who he killed.
(I posted this on another thread that seemed to post the same thing)
No disrespect to the dead, I’m sure they would have if they could and the “gunman” had been shooting at others, but I understand the need to fit the report to the narrative and I’m not buying it.
Huh? What is your theory about what happened? They have a lot of witnesses.
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