After watching the events on American college campuses this week, who thinks there any “Aragorns” or “men of the West” on the way who will stand at the “Black Gate?”
The gate has been forced open, the wall breached, and the hordes are loosed upon the land. And soon the “age of men comes crashing down.”
I see them everyday entering Kirtland Air Force Base, directing traffic, putting out fires, at the military recruiting offices, in the pews of my church. Shall I go on?
“A speeding truck bomb, and a shared act of courage”
“SAN DIEGO — They had known each other only a few minutes, but they will be linked forever in what Marine brass say is one of the most extraordinary acts of courage and sacrifice in the Iraq war.
Cpl. Jonathan Yale, 21, grew up poor in rural Virginia. He had joined the Marine Corps to put structure in his life and to help support his mother and sister. He was within a few days of heading home.
Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter, 19, was from a comfortably middle-class suburb on Long Island. As a boy, he had worn military garb, and he had felt the pull of adventure and patriotism. He had just arrived in Iraq.
On April 22, the two were assigned to guard the main gate to Joint Security Station Nasser in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, once an insurgent stronghold and still a dangerous region. Dozens of Marines and Iraqi police lived at the compound, and some were still sleeping after all-night patrols when Yale and Haerter reported for duty that warm, sultry morning.”
Finish reading here:
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/29/nation/na-heroes29
Watch them give their lives as many have and many are willing...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Bicfc9dp0