Which would seem to include those who fought there, and those who died there.
I am inspired by one of the awards listed to nominate John Fifthcolumn Kerry for a posthumous Purple Heart, with all due speed.
Kerry has served as an enemy combatant for thirty-four years, and deserves no less an award.
It is impossible to read SAM's fine thread of these damn fine men and not be moved.
I want John Fifthcolumn Kerry
to drop and give me 58,000--right now!
Under new business, I propose a return to the forty-eight-star flag, deleting Massachusetts and Vermont, as their pledge contains the phrase, Under Baal.
The flag-raising again underlines the astonishing phenomenon of the American citizen soldier in World War II.
Millions filled the ranks to fight valiantly, never demonstrated, never slandered, never betrayed their nation.
They fought with a steady fire that hardened them, not with a fanaticism that blinded them.
They fought with a clear, unclouded vision of the loved ones they left behind, and the freedoms they looked forward to.
They sought no conquest or territory, no booty, no glory--just victory and peace.
And those few brave souls who raised that flag taught the world a lesson it cannot forget:
You can have no better friend and no worse enemy than a United States Marine.
