[PurpleMan]

Words can't express his class.

[Bahbah]

Reading something like this might make a person cry.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Hey Michael! This needs to be publicized throughout the Conservative talk show community. Can you help?

[radar101]

http://www.onelastmission.org/

General Pace:

In November 2008, the United States of America will arrive at a crossroads. The two paths that lay before the American people could not diverge more sharply. Down one lies bigger government, hostility to traditional values, and the lack of will to face down the great threat of our time: Islamic fascism. The other path leads to greater opportunity, an embrace of the values that have made America “a shining city on a hill,” and a commitment to absolute victory against those who would use terror to prey on innocents.

Moments such as these call for courageous leaders who can rise above the fray and steer the nation through troubled waters. That is why we are asking you to seek the Republican nomination to represent the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States Senate.

We understand that after 40 years of dedicated service and personal sacrifice, that spending time with your family and enjoying a well-deserved retirement are far more appealing than the slings and arrows of Washington. There are rumors circulating that you will never consider a run for the Senate.

It is, however, your reluctance to serve that suggests to us that you must serve. For too long, the halls of power have been filled with self-important politicians who crave public office and the honor that it brings. In Washington, self-interest often trumps the public interest. For six years, you could change all of that. We don’t ask that you begin a second career; we ask that you serve one term at a moment in history that such service matters most.

General, the American people need your leadership in the U.S. Senate. The outcome of even one Senate race could mean the difference between pushing on towards victory and being driven from the field and rendering meaningless the blood that has been spilt in the sands of Iraq and Afghanistan. We cannot afford to be represented by a September 10th politician. We cannot spare you now.

Sir, we respectfully ask you to take on one last mission for your country.

Demonstrate your support for General Pace by donating via the link above. Should General Pace choose not to run, approved donations will be sent to Fisher House, a charity providing housing for veteran and active military families in times of need.

[apocalypto]

I agree.

[BIGLOOK]

Honor.......ping

[justanotherfreeper]

Go to this link:Contribute to General Pace. It goes into a fund that will be given to a "General Pace for Senate" campaign for the Virginia Senate if we can convince him to run. A big fat pot of money from conservatives desperate to have a real hero in the Senate might go a long way towards convincing him.

[FortWorthPatriot]

I had the personal honor of serving with General Pace 18 years ago when he was a Colonel in command of the Marine Barracks in DC. I was a young 27 year old Corporal at that time.

Outstanding Marine. Outstanding man.

Semper Fidelis, General.

[narby]

I may have seen Gen. Pace close up in September. How many four star generals are there? I saw a four star at the airport in Dublin, but forgot his name.

[narby]

I may have seen Gen. Pace close up in September. How many four star generals are there? I saw a four star at the airport in Dublin, but forgot his name.

[RaceBannon]

I know it sounds great, but something tells me there is something wrong here.

He KNEW someone would see this and most likely would publicize it.

I doubt he would have done something to public at such a public place that would be so public; ie, he showed his humility by doing something so publicly?

If he did this, GREAT, however, I am not so sure he actually did this. A man of his stature would avoid the public response of it all.

[maica]

>>>Words can’t express his class.<<<

His own words should have been headlines.

I cannot find a transcript of his speech, but CNN actually did a segment which uses the words that I remember General Pace saying at his farewell ceremony.

HOLMES: I’m T.J. Holmes. So glad you could be with us this morning. Up first this half hour, a final tribute by General Peter Pace, who used his own farewell to remember some of his men. We get this story from CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (on camera): On the day his 40-year military career ended, in part because of the war in Iraq, General Peter Pace remembered the first men he lost in combat in another unpopular war long ago.

CNN has obtained photos from a private moment the day General Pace retired as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on October 1st.

(voice over): After this farewell ceremony with the president, the secretary of Defense, and the new chairman, Pace went to the Vietnam wall and left some notes. Each was addressed to one of the men who died during his command in Vietnam in 1968. Look closely. Each note has a set of his four stars pinned to the card.

This note, to 19-year-old Lance Corporal Guido Farinaro reads, “These are yours, not mine. With love and respect, your platoon leader, Pete Pace.”

He remembered those same men and others when he closed his farewell speech just an hour earlier.

GENERAL PETER PACE, (RET.) U.S. MARINE CORPS.: I made a promise about 38 years ago to Guido Farinaro, Chubby Hale, Whitey Traverse, Mike Witt, Little Joe Arnold, Freddy Williams, Jon Miller that I would serve this country in whatever capacity I could, for as long as I could, and try to do it in a way that would pay respect to the sacrifice that they made following Second Lieutenant Peter Pace in combat.

STARR: Pace, of course, did not get a second term as chairman because of the Iraq war. But we now know he left office that day making one last private stop to say good-bye one more time to the men of his platoon in Vietnam.

Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:tgLEBEQboMQJ:transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0710/13/smn.01.html+general+peter+pace+farewell+address+transcript&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us&client=safari

[kristinn]

FYI.

[LZ_Bayonet]

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47507
Above site reports a visit by Pace to Farinaro’s high school, and cites the circumstances of his death and it’s impact on Pace. Very worth reading.

[StarCMC]

BTTT!!

What a world class guy.

[Patriot Hooligan]

“There is a great deal of talk about loyalty from the bottom to the top. Loyalty from the top down is even more necessary and is much less prevalent. One of the most frequently noted characteristics of great men who have remained great is loyalty to their subordinates.” General George S. Patton

[afnamvet]

This USAF SGT. salutes General Peter Pace, a man of honor.

[VOA]

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs had laid down his rank for his boys who
died in Nam. Oct 1 was the day he stepped down as Chairman."

If this is true, I WON'T expect to see it in the MSM.

Regardless, this civilian salutes Gen. Pace and his USMC forbearors
like Krulak, Chesty, etc.

Even if I'm unworthy to tie their boot-laces.

[river rat]

There are Perfumed Generals, Political Generals and Grunt Generals......

General Pace is a Marine Grunt General...of the highest order.
He could not leave the “battlefield” of active duty before honoring his lost.
This he accomplished with dignified class that did his men proud.

Men never forget the names, faces or voices of brothers they failed to keep alive...

Few non Vietnam veterans can grasp the incredible nearness one feels when in the presence of that cold stone Wall on the Mall...

In the darkness and stillness of pre-dawn, one can still hear the voices and cries of our beloved lost....

Their voices and faces are those of the eternally young and painfully missed.

Even more that their individual burial sites — the Wall is sanctuary to us all — together and still covering each others six.
It will be the rendezvous point for all, in the near future..

Semper Fi General!

[Southack]

A true man of honor.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Bless this man. May his number increase!This is what command is like. Give me a Pete Pace to a Sanchez anyday. He makes me proud to be an American...