Posted on 04/01/2005 6:23:32 AM PST by LSUfan
Fallujah post-mortem
Some Marine units moved through Fallujah in November with Arabic translators. The infantrymen wanted to be able to eavesdrop on the terrorists' radio net.
A Marine told us that, roughly translated, one terrorist was heard to say: "We are fighting. But the Marines keep coming. We are shooting, but the Marines won't stop."
The Marines, backed by Army tanks, captured Fallujah in 11 days and with it the last large base for Abu Musab Zarqawi.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Today is also the 140th anniversary of Five Forks. A relative of mine in the 24th Va. infantry was killed on that day.
I do not know for a fact that Sara Lister was a Hillary pick, but I strongly suspect that she was. Sara does not seem to be the type that would capture the attention of the Sink Emperor.
The Germans called us "Devil Dogs" in WWI
"This moss-banked fountain in the heart of the ancient village of Belleau, France, has become ~ by a quirk of history ~ a central symbol in the lore of the U.S. Marine Corps. The iconography of the fountain, of course, greatly predates the arrival of the Marines in 1918. The "bulldog" of the fountain is, in fact, a bull mastiff, doubtless one of the hunting mastiffs for which the Chateau of Belleau was famous. It was to this same Chateau of Belleau which Belleau Wood, Bois de Belleau, belonged by tradition. The cold & pristine water which gushes from the mastiff's mouth is the "beautiful water", belle eau, for which the village itself was named. When the Marines took Belleau Wood from the Germans in June, 1918, they had just been dubbed Teufelhunden, "devil dogs", by their opponents, a soubriquet which the Leathernecks quite cheerfully adopted. Almost at once, depictions of fierce helmeted hounds began appearing on recruiting posters and even in the letters of the Marines themselves. And so it was that when the first Marines entered the shattered, abandoned village of Belleau, begrimed by battle & the unrelenting heat, they must have greeted the sight of this venerable canine with particular delight. For not only, in the wake of their fiercest battle to that time, could they luxuriate in the clear & cooling stream, slaking thirst & swabbing their steaming necks, but, in the very act of replenishment, in a ritualistic partaking of restorative water bestowed by the beast, they affirmed, as though with a warriors' toast of raised aluminum cups & canteens, the newest & hardest-won symbol of the Corps: Teufelhunden ~ Devil Dogs ~ Bulldogs of the Marne.
Now that this stirring portrait has been painted, it must be confessed that nothing of the sort ever occured. Though the Marines took Belleau Wood in late June, 1918, Belleau itself was captured not by the Marine Brigade, but by the 26th Division some three weeks later, by which time the Marines were fighting & dying at Soissons. How and when the "bulldog fountain" actually entered into the mythology of the Corps remains something of a mystery."
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:3nK2UgWcW38J:www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/fountain.html+MARINES+DEVIL+DOGS+GERMANS&hl=en&start=2
Rumor has it that the Army has started painting Marines on their trucks in Iraq to deter attacks by the terrorists...
of course I know they'll deny it. LOL
Today is the 60th Anniversary of the ARMY going ashore on Okinawa.
Red 6 and team provided the tank support , before the first riflemen went in. M1s and Brads. .GOT SOME!
Personally, I think we could make a whole lot of headway with them if we relentlessly pounded them over the head with the message that their great-great-great-...-great grandfather was a coward and buckled under to terror rather than resist it and try to preserve his family's liberty and dignity, and that's why their whole family is bowing down to mecca today.
'Course, they won't like that message at first, but its truth is undeniable. Their grandfathers at some point made the conscious decision to "give us slavery instead of death," and thus converted to islam under the threat of the sword. So it is with every muslim alive today. They have no Thomas Jeffersons, with their lofty regard for human rights, in their entire 1400-year history, only cowards and murderers and pedophiles and thieves, and other assorted cutthroats.
The was the Grampas of the 77th Division. 305th and 306th RCT.
That's why keeping up the momentum is so important. Advances that are too deliberate get more people killed in the long run.
Thanks for the info....
He's not the first enemy of America to learn that lesson.
(snip)
I would not wish to fight the United States — either militarily, politically, or culturally. For every threat, our history teaches us that Americans offer not just a rejoinder, but the specter of a devastating answer of a magnitude almost inconceivable to those now chanting and threatening in the streets of the Middle East. Do they have any idea of what sort of dangerous people we really are? Do they understand the history of the names of those ships now off their coasts, like the USS Peleliu or Enterprise, or the pedigree of the 82nd or 101st Airborne?
The Dogs of War
Lessons of the 20th century.
By Victor Davis Hanson,
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson110601.shtml
Yep.
No problem at all, my grandfather was an Air Force Colonel. But its not two... Tripoli is in Libya! LOL!
"We are fighting. But the Marines keep coming. We are shooting, but the Marines won't stop."
That would be a fine tagline.
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