Beautiful! Thank you so much, A.A. Cunningham!!
And thank you for the added link in your other post.
Thank you for the actual event, with men just as honorable as those on D-Day.
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1983/110483a.htm
This speech is from that day in 1983 - quite a contrast from what is going on today, esp. with respect to Benghazi. Excerpts:
“If this country is to remain a force for good in the world, we’ll face times like these, times of sadness and loss. Your fellow citizens know and appreciate that Marines and their families are carrying a heavy burden....
...commit our resources and risk the lives of those in our Armed Forces to rescue others from bloodshed and turmoil and to prevent humankind from drowning in a sea of tyranny....”
...The world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to the men in its Armed Forces — to the Corps of Marines, to the Navy, the Army. Freedom is being tested throughout the world....
...As ever, Leathernecks are willing to accept their mission and do their duty. This honest patriotism and dedication to duty overwhelms the rest of us....
...In a free society there’s bound to be disagreement about any decisive course of action. Some of those so quick to criticize our operation in Grenada, I invite them to read the letters I’ve received from those students and their families. They know this was no invasion; they know it was a rescue mission. Marines have a saying — ``We take care of our own.’’ Well, America, with the help of Marines, will take care of our own.”