But Temple is remarkable for something, just like other cities and towns all over this great country. Temple is remarkable in that it can produce fine young people like Cpl. Louis Qualls, that they are willing to give up all they have and all their ever going to have to protect this country. To protect you and me and our families from the harsh reality of evil.
It's so tragic that our best and bravest have to be the ones to pay the ultimate price for the rest of us, but that's how it is. I thank God Almighty for great Americans like this who have the will and the courage to answer their nations call. I pray for the Qualls family, and all the other families of our service men and women, in this their hour of testing and grief and hope that they understand that millions of people around the country share their grief of this loss and their pride in this truly Brave American Hero.
God Bless Louis and all who have bought and paid for Americas freedom with their service and their blood.
Amen
nicely put.
It angers me that such vermin as still fight us in Iraq and elsewhere still exact such a price. They are those who would send children to blow up children. They are cowards of the worst order and they are not each or by the thousands worth a single loss of a good Marine, Soldier or Sailor.
It angers me that we must suffer losses of good men when the parasites that we fight are not even to be considered human beings. Human beings do not disembowel and dismember defenseless women, or behead hostages, or blow up a pizza parlor.
Vermin such as this *must* lose their fight. There is no other choice. That this comes at such a cost as this fine young man today even amplifies my anger.
I had the same reaction.
May I encourage you to send your post as a letter to the editor of a local paper in Temple?
It communicates the true cost of freedom, and it may be a balm to Qualls family.
I have two sons of miltary age, not in service. To lose one would be an extreme test of my faith.
When John Donne answered the question of for whom the bell tolls, replying, "It tolls for thee", we all feel the pain of this father, but we can never feel it as deeply as he does.
Fallujah is not worth one of these fine young men.
Where do we get such men?
Better yet, why do we deserve them?
Semper Fi.