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!
IDEALLY, LOYALTY GOES BOTH WAYS:
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace hugs U.S. Marine 1st Lt. Andrew Kinard at the Pentagon Sept. 27, 2007, following his final press conference as chairman. Pace, who will be retiring Sept. 30, 2007, after more than 40 years of service, will be turning over his position as chairman to U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen Oct. 1, 2007. Kinard, who lost both legs to an improvised explosive device in Iraq, now works at the Pentagon. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. D. Myles Cullen, U.S. Air Force. (Released)