Reader’s Comment Of The Week
Steve in NC
May 19, 7:01 PM
My son is in the air back to Iraq as I write this.
I left the Atlanta airport this afternoon, seeing my son off, headed back for the rest of his tour.
Seeing all those in uniform heading back, not a smile on their faces, yet returning to do the duty they swore to uphold, and in contrast you see these power hungry pieces of shit ( Pelosi, Reid, Murtha ), using this war as just another political game, willing to risk the lives of our soldiers for their own gain. I could take the life from them with my bare hands and have no guilt.
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There with ya Steve.
“Never Despair”–Winston Churchill.
“We’ll live to see the rotten sons-a-bitches get theirs.”–Infidel.
May 19th, 2007 at 7:29 pmSending your soldier back after mid-tour is so much harder than sending them off initially. Our five year old was so distraught that the airline attendants started to cry when my husband boarded the plane for his return trip to Iraq.
As devastated as I was, I still swelled with pride because in that very moment, I realized what a dedicated, unwavering patriot I’d married. I knew he meant it when he said he’d rather be the one to go over and fight the good fight so that our sons wouldn’t have too. Steve, you’ve raised a fine, dedicated patriot we can all be proud of.
May 19th, 2007 at 8:45 pmI just saw a Marine here on the street in Greenwich Village. I stopped and thanked him. Shook his hand. These guys are the very best of America. God bless them.
May 19th, 2007 at 8:49 pmHouse 6, many thanks to you too, for your sacrifice.
May 19th, 2007 at 8:52 pm“Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hanged.”
President Abraham Lincoln
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Same goes for any member of the public.
Me…………
May 19th, 2007 at 9:02 pmAmen to that, williamP.
May 19th, 2007 at 9:05 pmSteve, my heart is with you. Also in doing in the POSs.
Grandson is in the middle of his third tour in Iraq …
God Bless Them All!
May 19th, 2007 at 9:56 pmAmen
May 19th, 2007 at 10:37 pmI totally agree with you steve. Me and my friends are sick to death of being pawns in this politcal chess game. I lose friends over there because the MSM and the Dems want to overthrow the president. Something needs to be done about this shit.
May 19th, 2007 at 11:08 pmThis is why I am currently pissed at both political parties. I don’t think either of them really cares about the troops, they just want election or re-election
. Thanks to all military people active duty or otherwise out there.
May 20th, 2007 at 1:39 amGod bless and comfort, strengthen you both. You have my heart and prayers. Multitudes, millions join my support, a vocal few are grabbing headlines, know that most of us walk shoulder to shoulder with you in your pride, sorrow, and worried love. Your son is a gift to the nation,may he be home safe and soon.
May 20th, 2007 at 1:55 amthank you.
Democrat and Commander in Chief just can’t be allowed to happen. The harm to our nation, our troop morale, and the offensive in the war are damaged enough already. The Pelosi bitches need to go.
Its difficult to continue a mission when those who comissioned you are backstabbing your efforts. Its even more difficult to return to it!
Steve, thank you and and thank you to your son.
May 20th, 2007 at 4:18 amhttp://a152.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/8/l_05135e8cbfd3cea163ab766d27923c17.jpg
May 20th, 2007 at 5:30 amOn Armed Forces/Memorial Day I give Thank you for serving your Country to my Son and all of his band of Brothers. At this time my son and his fellow soldiers are doing their best to find the missing/hostage soldiers. LET NO SOLDIER LEFT BEHIND! I am very proud of you Son. May God watch over you and your fellow Brothers in arms.
To all on this board with a spouse or family member on active duty…..God Bless You !!!
Just know I’m right there with you. Every thought and every emotion.
Screw the politics and the politicians. My son serves honorably. He lets me worry about the political scene …he’s only interested in the job at hand.
Semper Fi Gang
May 20th, 2007 at 6:57 amP.S.
Steve in NC
Count my 2 hands in also…with not a damn bit of guilt.
May 20th, 2007 at 7:02 amGod Bless you and your son, Steve. I totally understand what you are saying. Those suits on the Hill have no idea what service is. Nada. They only serve themselves. You can’t compare them to people like your son, who is living out one of the greatest laws in life, that to serve is far more rewarding than being served.
I find myself in restaurants, on the streets, burger joints, etc. actually looking for service personnel so I can buy them their meal. I can’t thank them enough for what they are doing. It’s very humbling.
May 20th, 2007 at 7:15 amSteve,House6 and I am sure many more of you that read Pat’s blog have children,husband’s ,etc. over seas fighting the war on terror. It shows how we are all a family and are in this together.I feel it in my heart and close my eyes and pray everyday for our brave soldiers….I was on the golf course on friday,with my daughter-in -laws father, when she called and said”I am the CO.FRG family notify and we lost 2 today, in the BN.,if you see our unit in the news…..” It sucks, It hurts, It makes one feel so in significant.It is so hard to try to go about normal life when constantly thinking of loved one’s in combat.But if we don’t they win……Please remind your soldier everyday, as I remind my son that there are millioms and millions of true Americans who honor and respect thier service and commitment….God Bless you, God Bless our troops and God Bless America.
May 20th, 2007 at 7:35 amI hate those SOBs too. My son has been there four times. At the airport before Fallujah in Nov.04 was the hardest time.
May 20th, 2007 at 8:02 amWe need to start the indictments for treason. Let’s start with Pelosi and her bitch, Reid.
May 20th, 2007 at 8:46 amWe are winning in Iraq but we are losing in the US.
Our winning in Iraq is evidenced by the shear number of Iraqis killed every day by the insurgents as they attempt to cow the population.
Our losing in the US is evidenced by the last election. The last election was the accumulation of a massive disinformation campaign lead by the US Media that threw the votes of the superficially informed into the dem’s favor.
The conventional wisdom is that;
“An insurgency needs the people’s support to win”.
So WTF is going on in Iraq? Well there is a corollary and it is this;
“…Except when the insurgents are fighting the United States and can enlist the US Media to their support.”
When the corollary is in effect; the insurgents don’t need the people anymore. They just need to outlast the current leadership in the US. Their quickest path to victory is achieved by creating the most chaos, mayhem and body count and getting that into play through US Media outlets. The US media doesn’t care about the people, when their own political agenda can be advanced.
Make no mistake, the US Media is a powerful agency in our world today and they know it. Their influence is global, they are political and they do have an agenda. Do not listen to what they say but observe what they do. The action of the US media speaks for itself.
Some will say that the media represents truth and a failsafe to insure honest government. We know that is not true. The US media is one-sided. They have no compunction about presenting their arguments as truth and leaving the other side of the argument derisively unspoken. One man’s truth is another man’s propaganda.
No one elected the US media to make the calls. Today’s US media is a product of the Subversive University Industrial Complex. The graduates of this cabal seek political power through advancement within the ranks of the US media rather than seeking political office. This is most likely because their ideas make them unelectable.
It’s time something was done to mitigate the influence this unelected body has on American politics. It’s time we spit on reporters rather than allow them to incite others to spit on us. The US media needs to be held accountable for their unelected political actions. Reporters, agency heads and their supporters need to be jailed. We are at war people. When a nation is at war, some liberties must be suspended in order to insure the oneness of the collective political body until the threat has passed.
This isn’t about democracy. It’s about the survival of the nation-state.
May 20th, 2007 at 8:47 amI have no problem publishing my e-mail address, which is and my name is Jeffrey Sneller. It is my pleasure to meet you and join this discussion group. If we want to change a culture that would willingly sell out our country and our military to advance their own liberal agendas the way to do that is elect lawmakers with true American values. Blog sites like this one can be used for venting our frustrations but it can also be used, to formulate a plan to achieve that goal in the ‘08 election. I think we all know that Moveon.org is a good example (albeit left wing) of the power of the internet. If any of you have any suggestions, that would be a good place to begin.
May 20th, 2007 at 8:51 amI agree 110%. I am currently in Fallujah, Iraq and I listen to the troops sitting down at chow every day saying the exact same thing you are. How do people like this exist in our society?
Semper Fi.
May 20th, 2007 at 9:01 amSteve,
May 20th, 2007 at 9:09 amI’m proud we still have young men like your son and fathers like you who raised them. I swear to all of you that I feel like something must be done to purge our country, a reckoning, and an American reformation. Just like in 1517 when Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation to get back to what Christianity was supposed to be, we need to return to the well of our “Founding Fathers” and return America to what that original idea was. Our government no longer serves the will of the people. We as Americans don’t make anything anymore. Just pick up any item that you see around your PC and see where it was made. I would wager not in the U.S.A. Imagine what would happen if we had to go to war with China? What is all the nations that make all our stuff decided they didn’t want to anymore? I shudder to think what kind of country my two year olds will inherit from us if we don’t do something. The clock is ticking and time is running out.
msm and the pac of 3(the other U.S. gov’t) have done the job of al queda and split this country in 2,,the anger and difference is becoming more irreversable all the time,, family and friends no longer can talk civilly about the ideals of our country…3/7 MARINES dad
May 20th, 2007 at 9:23 amSteve in NC and House 6,
I took note of this piece as our son-in-law is an Army Major in Iraq, due for a mid-tour visit back here in July. I believe we are the typical military folks that do what we can to help the kids out while he’s gone. Just had the two grand daughters here for the week end and can’t fathom how’d they’d do without their dad. Can’t think that way…bad luck or something.
May 20th, 2007 at 9:59 amAdd me to the list of ‘agree-ers’…
May 20th, 2007 at 10:09 amRight with you Steve. I’ve been over myself and I have many friends who are currently there. It never ceases to amaze me how fantasticly worthless most of our politicians are compared to our noble and honorable servicemen.
May 20th, 2007 at 10:44 am-me
“He needed killin’.” is still a valid defence for any jury I’m on, Do Reid,Pelousie and Murtha, get reward.
I pray I live long enough to piss on their graves.The Clintons too.
May 20th, 2007 at 11:11 amSo many good letters here….so much emotion. I find as I read commentary here and on some of the other terrific blogs out there I’m not alone in my frustration and anger at the phoniness that is pervasive in Washington DC.
We all must make sure that as our soldiers return home that they are not treated with the same disrespect that I and others experienced in the late 60’s and 70’s.
As WilliamP noted above, “I just saw a Marine here on the street in Greenwich Village. I stopped and thanked him. Shook his hand. These guys are the very best of America. God bless them.” It is our DUTY as Americans to do the same as this fine gentleman!
Sign me as….lib_NOT
May 20th, 2007 at 2:21 pmCridhe Soarsa
I think your analysis is very good. Our media so much more vastly hates Bush and Republicans than Al Queda and mass murderers that they work in overdrive to slant the story in their favor. They hate the US. They hate our military. What is so galling is how they claim to “support the troops”. Even as they rah-rah Al Queda to kill more of them.
I sometimes imagine a reporter with a can of gasoline in one hand, and a microphone in the other. With the one he pours periodically gasoline on a fire burning beside him. With the microphone he is screaming at an official:
“Why can’t you put out the fire?! Aren’t you responsible for this fire?! You started this fire!”
May 20th, 2007 at 2:23 pmWilliamP: Good on you.. Back in the 60’s, that Marine would have been spit on while wearing his uniform in Greenwich Village.
for you. 
May 20th, 2007 at 2:29 pmI’m headed to Iraq next month and while I disagree with what the democrats are doing, I do not believe that it is appropriate to talk about strangling them. Rational discourse is what separates us from our enemies…if we start advocating violence towards our own politicians, we take a crucial step in the wrong direction.
May 20th, 2007 at 3:50 pmIf there is a line for choking the b*%$@&ds, please show me where it starts.
May 20th, 2007 at 6:13 pmPeople, these last couple threads have been so depressing, I felt I had to put up something that shd lift your spirits…check it out:
http://jewishodysseus.blogspot.com/2007/05/you-can-never-get-too-much-of-this-kind.html
May 20th, 2007 at 7:26 pmGod bless all our servicemen and servicewomen. These guys and gals are truly the best this country has to offer. Think about it–they all volunteered, and the younger ones volunteered after 9/11, they knew full well what they were getting into and did it anyway. I happened to be near a large base yesterday and 3 F-18’s flew overhead and I thought, I hope that sound scares the **** out of the bad guys. The media does it part to convince the world that our military’s overwhelming might and skill and kick *** attitude can’t and won’t win. But we know it will, if we aren’t defeated by them breaking the will of the public first…
May 20th, 2007 at 8:11 pmThank God and may the Lord bless your son and your family for standing at the gate while those of this society inside that gate bicker and shop and watch American Idol and the latest on Paris and whatever crap the media feeds us to keep us from thinking and realizing what your son is holding at bay.
May 20th, 2007 at 8:26 pmGod Bless You!!!!
Its pretty obvious that no one in the RNC will press any charges against the traitors on the left.
Career polititions stick together.
GODDAMMIT WE NEED LEADERS NOT MORE POLITITIONS!:mad::evil:
Any lawyers out there?
Is it possible to put together some sort of class action suit against Nancy and Harry?
Can we sue them out of this treasonous behaviour?
Just a thought.
May 20th, 2007 at 8:49 pm… fwiw I’d like to spit on Pelosi & Reid in the Village… on second thought I’d like to spit on them in any city.
God Bless our keepers of freedom
May 20th, 2007 at 11:42 pmplease tell me why it seems that when veterans become democrats, particularly democrat politicians, that they feel the need to commit acts of treason or otherwise condemn those who currently serve their country in the military? Murtha can harken back to his military experience all he wants to portray hirt them slls views as suportive of the troops, but the bottom line is he has sold out his country. treat him like you would treat anyother terrorist sympathizer.
Deport them all and replace them with real patriotic veterans.
God bless american troops.
May 21st, 2007 at 1:09 amI wish I could convey the depth of emotion and pride I have for our military and their families. They make me so proud to be an American. I am sickened everyday of what the politicians, MSM, and moonbats are doing to our service men and women and this country.
May 21st, 2007 at 4:46 amAs a great man once said,
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
I hope that this statement does not turn prolific, but if the silent majority continues to be silent……
To all our military fighting our enemy who wish to destroy us, Thank you and we are proud of you no matter what is said in the media, you are doing a great job and we know it.
There’s no doubt in my mind that Al Quida is using the MSM to there benefit as history shows it’s effectivness. My list of traitors has Walter Croncite at the top for Vietnam. LBJ said, ” If I lost Croncite, I lost the war.” I was still in Hue when I heard, April Fools Day, my commander-in-chief, LBJ, wimped out on us, couldn’t hack it and left us high and dry. Not a good moral booster. But, by the end of 1968, the VC and NVA could not mount even a platoon sized op in I Corps as they were all but wiped out, or 25 km north of the DMZ. Hanoi was in site for sure, then in Novenber during Operation Thor that was finishing off Uncle Ho, they whined in Paris and LBJ stopped the push. We, the military servicemen at the time, had Ho by the scrotum but Croncite’s early prognosis ruled. Didn’t matter the outcome after his “informed” assesment.
We’ve gotta make sure no reporter has that power over a President again. Blogs like these might do the job where enough embedded reporters make the MSM think twice before they make such a negative, final assesment like Croncite did. If Don Imus can get fired from NBC for a blunder, there’s hope that enough flack to the MSM producers can do the job. Aim comments at the money support corporations like Pat recommends here.
I recall despite Croncite and LBJ’s capitulation, Marine moral was still not affected at the time. Abrams replaced Westmorland in April, ‘68, Abrams choppered up the Marines, unleashed them from Westy’s defensive policy and all 3 service branches kicked ass. But, Uncle Ho had Croncite in his pocket and the reality of Ho’s defeat didn’t matter. I’m seeing the new Iraq policy is working before the next President takes office, a bit opposite of the events of ‘68, that’s gotta be worth something in the mechanics of history.
May 21st, 2007 at 6:04 amSteve,
Yup!
My prayers for your young man and all his fellow young men/women who ARE in touch with reality.
A pox upon “The House” and “Senate” …
Maggie
May 21st, 2007 at 6:40 amI am a US Marine, who has served for 27 months in country over in that Sandbox of Hell. I am enrolled in college now. My English professor somehow finds the time to bash Bush and Cheney and the United States’ imperialistic ways at the same time, says he supports the troops. I told him, as politely as I could (I still hoped for a descent grade…LOL) that it was impossible to not support Bush, but support the troops. He still doesn’t get it, though. These guys just get off on bashing American every chance they get, it makes them “feel” more superior to the rest of us sheep, as he calls us! Semper Fi, “Kill the other poor bastard that is trying to kill you!” Gen Patton.
May 21st, 2007 at 6:44 amHow do you know when you have lost, or are on the sharp brink of losing, your culture to Islam?
“Mermaid Statue Draped in Muslim Dress”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8P8G87O0&show_article=1
Don’t doubt for a second that our “statue” is next …
May 21st, 2007 at 6:48 amTJ,
OK, here it comes…I’m a registered Democrat and a Veteran. I was a Union activist and even a Local IBEW President for 3 years. But, before choking hands and gun shots come through my 2 dimensional screen, I’m also a defector from the DNC. That started in the 2000 election where I had no choice because of the choices of Dem candidates at the time, I voted Bush. The next election I had to do the same for national defense issues and Kerry’s actions with the VVAW and his record on the MIA commision. I found on this last local election I was still a registered Demecorat. So, I haven’t switched yet as a couple of things happened where I thought staying regestered that way I can use. The first was a Pole I got from the DNC. I ripped them a new one and sent it back, mostly saying their Party left me behind, they changed, they have to purge wimps out to win in ‘08. Don’t know if they even read that pole but I’m thinking there are a shit pot of defectors out there like me that will grow in number before the convention convenes. Unless they can find a Dem that will keep the current national defense policy going, we’re outa there.
Next, most of my old working buddies that I still have contact with I’m making sure they think twice before just voting Dem party lines this time, me still being registered that way trips them up I think. I’m making head way on at least the defense issues. If the Dems can’t find an in-your-face candidate, I think these guys will defect also. Hey, if I got 10 Democrats wavering on the war issues, maybe there’s an exponential number of them waiting to see what they come up with for a candidate and seeing nothing but wimps they’ll vote accordingly.
I think on close elections, defectors like me and Independents are whose votes both parties are after. Vane maybe but it feels good. Right now, the Dems have a slim majority to try and pass bills, but know they could never get the 2/3’s needed to pass anything stupid like they are now. If they keep it up, that slim majority might very well slop over onto the popular vote…and they defectors may rule!!
May 21st, 2007 at 6:55 amWillimaP and USMC_Dad: I have a couple of pretty strong hands I would not mind sullying for a good cause..
May 21st, 2007 at 7:49 amSteve in NC,
From a very proud Marine Dad, Semper Fi, and and our prayers and thoughts are with you and every other parent of a soldier, Marine, airman, and sailor moving in or near harm’s way.
I look at this country, at our leaders, and the children (that’s what they are) at the shopping malls of college, and my son, my nephews (a Striker driver in Iraq, and a Security Force airman in Bagdad at the invasion), Britain’s Prince Harry, and the other men and women (that’s what they are) from my little rural region who want to serve, have served, are serving, and who have died in this war. I look at the gulf that separates them. And I feel sorry, really very sorry, for the children.
May 21st, 2007 at 7:58 amTanicacid, our stories are so darned similar. Really. Haven’t changed my own party registration, but may to independent just to muddle with wherever I feel needs muddling. I am ill when I hear that the last election was a mandate on the war…if it was any such thing, it was for more effective leadership, get the job done, let our servicefolks do what needs doing. Grew up in the mil and have much patriotism, still very ill over much of recent mess. Have written elected officials, emailed news outlets but that feels ineffective. Is there an en masse place to rally? A way to be heard? LOUD and CLEAR? A grandma and K9 trainer, wish I were young enough to take my dogs and go put them to work.
May 21st, 2007 at 8:04 amthanks for all you all do, blessings, Janica
This comment is specifically written to Tanicacid who admits he once served as the President of his local IBEW. I work for an association of non-union building contractors and we are currently locked in a ferocious battle with our local IBEW over some Electrical Safety Policy. This policy says that 70% of electricians on qualifying projects must be graduates of the union-dominated Electrical Apprenticeship Program. In addition to discriminating against those that learned their trade in a different program, it discriminates against those that learned the trade in the military. We feel that thousands of returning military will eventually be affected by the policy and seek assistance where ever we can get it in defeating this measure. If you are in a position to assist, please contact me at
May 21st, 2007 at 9:22 amPat: Thanks for bringing that comment to our attention.
Steve: Add my two hands, as well.
May 21st, 2007 at 10:07 amHeartfelt and humble “Thank you” to our troops and their families for your service and sacrifice! You are the true meaning of honor, valor, and patriotism! A salute via the great words of the full version of the Star-Spangled Banner:
O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen thro’ the mist of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream
’Tis the star-spangled banner. Oh! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
May 21st, 2007 at 12:20 pmBetween their loved homes and the war’s desolation,
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our Trust”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
A-FUCKING-MEN. God Bless you Steve, Your Son and all the Families. Our prayers are with you all.
May 21st, 2007 at 12:48 pmMichael
Tanicacid and Janica,
Same here. Became registered voter in 1976 after my 18th birthday … democrat (family and union born and raised). Switched to republican between Clinton terms …
It was then that I saw the “web” being spun by the MSM in favor of the left.
May 21st, 2007 at 1:38 pmI am a Marine and I am currently in Iraq. It’s nice to have support from people back home. My dad was also a marine and he was in Vietnam, I know he didn’t get the same respect that I am. I did this for him but it does irritate me that politically this war has just become a game. I’m sitting over here wondering what’s going on and when it’s going to end and really those of us in the Marine Corps, or military, know nothing more then the civilians. I am a female Marine, my best friend and I are attached to an all male unit here in Iraq, we happen to be the only two females with this unit. We are doing our ob to a “T” and better then any male ever has (according to our SSgt) and yet they are trying to get us “sent back to where we came from” all because we’re females. We have enough problems over here to worry about. I just think society has gone down the drain, nothing means anything to anybody anymore. The only time you get a smile from anyone is when you talk about money and how much you can get. It’s becoming rediculous in my opinion.
May 21st, 2007 at 4:03 pmFrom an inactive Marine of 35-years, I salute you Steve and your son. The pride continues to swell eveytime I see the sacrifice given to this country. You Steve, and your son sustain the very love I have for my brethern, country, and liberty.
Thank you both for your service!
May 21st, 2007 at 6:00 pmThought of the Day
“Whether Democrats and progressives can win back the respect — and the votes — of soldiers, veterans and their families is a critical question for the future of American politics. It will never happen if they believe that the left devalues or ignores their sacrifice”
– liberal columnist Joe Conason, writing at Salon.com to oppose presidential candidate John Edwards’ call for demonstrations against the Iraq War this Memorial Day.
May 21st, 2007 at 6:02 pmLaura
God Bless you.
You can be my daughter any day. Actually, my wife and I only have two sons…so, that could work
Thank You from the bottom of my heart for what you are doing. Tell your dad thanks from me for his service. I graduated H.S. in ‘73 and it pissed me off to no end the way sheeple were treating our Vietnam vets.
Semper Fi Marine !!!
May 21st, 2007 at 6:32 pmThanks to you for all the support, bty he is in baghdad and today on his 22nd birthday! sort of sucks, but hopefully he is still hungover!
Laura, do not be that down on society, the good and right do outnumber the fools, they just don’t get the media coverage, and if you are ever in doubt, take a look in a mirror and you will see what is good about America.
May 21st, 2007 at 7:39 pmLaura: you have more guts than 99% of the people I meet on a daily basis. You’re young so you may think people value money over everything else,but they don’t. People with their heads on straight know what matters–like my little daugher says, people like you ROCK–people like you are what matters, among other things, money not being one of them. Thank you for your service. What you are doing has more meaning than most things going on in the world…You should be proud to be a part of something like that. We are proud of you. Take care.
May 21st, 2007 at 7:52 pmThank you, Steve.
May 21st, 2007 at 8:20 pmI know what you are feeling Pat.
All will be well, Pelosi and Reid are in for one big surprise!!
May 21st, 2007 at 9:14 pmlaura,
who is trying to send you back because you are a woman? your unit commander, the marines, the politicians?
where women may lack in body strength they more than make up for it with mental determination. If you are working as hard as you are then any amount of negative criticism should be countered by an attitude that says” I am a marine first, a woman second” the marines trained you to be a marine, and nothing else.
semper fi
May 21st, 2007 at 10:58 pmLaura, USMC dad, and all others serving or with loved ones serving: God Speed. I salute you all.
I have two sons in the Marine Corps. One in Iraq and one in school at Pensacola. Being retired Air Force not sure how I ended up with two jarheads. But I couldn’t be more proud of them both.
Jim Isom
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:30 amColonel, USAF, Ret
Laura, I know where you’re coming from. I am concerned also. Society has, as a whole, become complacent. There exists a generation that has everything handed to them. They never had to exert any dicipline to attain what they have. They never had to work for what they want. Therefore they don’t place any value on what they have. We live in an age of instant gratification. We are kept safe due to fine people as you, but we don’t see how we are kept safe - out of sight, out of mind. 9-11 was a wake-up call, unfortunately in a way, we haven’t been attacked again….
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:02 amPlease take heart. There still are alot of folks who still have values and appreciate everything you are doing for them. We pray for you every Sunday in my Church and every Wednesday evening in my prayer group. You have alot of support, it’s just that the media won’t report it.
Laura,
Semper Fi and good job. Hey, if it weren’t WM’s to jibe its FNG’s, chow, scratchey skivies or some other damn thing. I’d say the flip side of your male comrades anger is fear of you…having to do better than they, upping the standard, rocking the boat. Aint no different when you get out so keep on keeping on. Women in the military have come a long way and you are still their reps opening new opportunities for our daughters. Also, look around at the locals or in Afghanistan…our women aint wearing Berka’s any more ( to me, that’s a testimony of their men’s weakness or self restraint). I’m thinking their women just seeing you with our Marines has got to give them hope that someday, they can be a part of their country’s history.
If Gunny is happy that’s the job, covering his ass and on up. We used to call the get-by scenerio “skating” but Gunny seems to like what your doing and it’ll make the others have to keep up. Hey, if your Gunny’s happy I’M HAPPY! Happy Gunnies mean things are well in good in Jarhead land. Mine in ‘68 was Fleet Marine Karate champ…hell I’ll praise him here…John Roseberry, still runs a Dojo in Lincoln, NB. This guy was a black gentleman to the T…BUT, in the field and in the ring he was brutal. Wasn’t hard to figure out we needed to stay on his good side or back at the home base, we’ed have to spar with him in the practice ring…kind of legal corporal punishment.
Meritman,
I was IBEW local pres in the late ’80’s, went on my own shop after that until I got to stove up from Service connected wounds and took the disability. I worked both sides, worker and contractor. That apprenticship program you’re hasseling with was exactly what I went through, did my time from 30% journeyman wage on up through the 4 years steps. If that program is like ours, it’s state sanctioned and you have to change some state laws rather than hasseling the local. What can I say, get a bigger lobby? Most of my school chums were Vets in the ’70s when I went through..military electrical training did get some points but it’s a whole different world in civy land…had something national called electrical codes…that means the code makers are lawyers, insurance underwritters, engineers, manufacturers, UL, and especially Firemen have to be sattisfied, or on a killing accident, someone does some time. The best way might be take the state electrical tests for Journeyman or Masters. Union and non-union take the same tests, then sign the referral books as white-tickets, work long enough and you’ll be asked to join up ( at least that what I pushed for and did as local pres) if that’s what the gripe is. Otherwise, I’m outa that rat race…hope the young guns I had to compete against ( they won) survive.
Janica..
… and other fellow Democrat defectors reading this blog, hey, my PC didn’t blow up from a hidden Clamore Mine in the monitor so guess we can stay here a bit. Plus I got another pole questionaire from the DNC to mess with them…this time it wasn’t state but National with old EEEEEEYAAAA Howard Deans ( what a dork)name on it…this one should be fun to fill out. I saw this morning where their low ratings in the polls got some rational bills started with no deployment limits so some of us must be bitting on their asses. Take heed you active servicmen, we’re working on it and you’ll have a paycheck and bullets shortley. Even saw a clip from Obama where he’s softening on defense issues. They aint got much time to find a fighter among them, until then if you get these poll deals, don’t be kind on their issues and maybe we’ll have another close election where us defectors might make the difference.
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:50 amJanica et. al.,
Ok Dems on this site, I just filled out the DNC poll questionaire and if you get one, here’s some answer hints I used. In the first question, it has about 11 boxes where one has to rate the issues in order of importance. In the issue “Iraq War”, I rated #1. In the last line it says “Other”, I makred it #2, and wrote, “find a Jihad fighter in the DNC or I’ll Defect!!” They don’t have to know we already did. On down it has a multiple choice one under Iraq War on when we should pull out: immediately, one year, two years etc. The last box is a line “Other” and I wrote “300 years!!” Being that’s the Princeton Scholar of the middle east, Bernard Lewis’s estimate on how long it will take the middle east to educate and evolve into modernity. That’d be way over the DNC’s head so I didn’t footnote the 300 years. The coup de gras was on the last page asking for donations to the DNC. There I wrote, “not one penny!” Yep, I demeaned myself talking money.
Meritman,
Hate to talk more union stuff here but since you asked. I’m working on my son hard to get off his leftist crap, just sent him two of Bernard Lewis’s books on the middle east to educate him on our enemy. He’s LAG or Live Actors Guild, a hard nut to crack their indoctrination but one at a time is all we can do. And of course, here’s a blurb on Cole’s gig starting up soon in maybe a town near you. http://www.theatermania.com/content/news.cfm/story/10705
It’s a laugh as we can use as many as we can get now days. A little muppet porn mixed in a setting of starving college grads living on Avenue Q, USA.
May 22nd, 2007 at 1:08 pmGod bless- my prayers are with all of you that have a child serving. I have two good hands also.
keeping the powder dry
May 22nd, 2007 at 5:02 pm“please tell me why it seems that when veterans become democrats, particularly democrat politicians, that they feel the need to commit acts of treason or otherwise condemn those who currently serve their country in the military?”
The problem is you are confusing patriotic disagreement with an administration that has lied and mislead us into an ill begotten war in Iraq for condemnation of the troops. As a veteran of Vietnam, volunteering for that mess was the worst mistake of my 60+ years, I support the troops, but not the liars that put them there. We can support our troops AND oppose the war, that is not a contradiction. If you really supported our troops you would be demanding that they come home NOW!
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:02 amterry dubose:
“lied and mislead us into an ill begotten war in Iraq”
So the democrat leadership who had access to the same intel as the President and still voted in favor of this war also lied and misled the nation?
You can answer that with a yes or no answer.
I actually would like to have one of you d’rats that come in and puke this leftist dribble to actually post a rebuttal, but nearly never see it, because you know that you will be confronted with facts and history and that your lies are then exposed, and you have no logical way to support your position.
Or do you believe that fire cannot melt steel?
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:07 amStanding right beside you, Brother.
Semper Fidelis
Former SSGT A. L. Uebel
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:13 pmagain, the president is privy to the same intel as the drats as steve in NC has stated. so did they lie too or did they not read the intel. Even michael moore stated in fahrenheit 911 that many of the senators and congressman who voted for the patriot act never actually read it.
My brother is a liberal, terry, . he is a very talented and gifted engineer who has the same attitude as you about what it means to support the troops. Just because you couldnt hack the trials of war, doesnt mean our soldiers need to be brought down to that level.
You can say you dont agree with the war and call the politicians to end the war That alone means you support the safety of the troops., but the troops are there to fight , that is their job and they have goals to meet and you put them in precarious situations when you call them terrorists, undermine their efforts highlighting the misdeeds of the few, while ignoring the many missdeeds of their enemy. You undermine their morale. morale is very important in keeping people motivated.
If democrats would stop commenting on the misdeeds of american soldiers as a means to score political points against bush, then i might be able to contend that you as I , support the troops. If liberals inthe media would stop ignoring the threat of our enemies or their misdeeds and stopped back stabbing the soldiers in the field, we might be able to think you support the troops.
If bush lied, proove it. Yet after all the “evidence” we have no move to impeach him. Michael moore accused him of treason by linking him to osama bin laden and 9/11. that is punishable by death, why no action?
Instead you try to defund the troops? If you think the troops are being unduly influenced by this site, fox or talk radio, think again? too many complain about the MSM reporters trying to befriend them, then misreporting or outright lying about them in their articles and videos.
We tell them fight on, because that is what helps them stay motivated and safe. Hoplessness that democrats breed, only brings down their morale.
If democrats are concerned about the troops they need to be more consistent in showing it. words are meaningless!
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:46 pmMan I tell you, democrats are just unbelievable. And man I agree with you all the way. I wish the best for your son and God bless the troops.
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:06 pmSteve in NC Thanks for your post telling Terry where to go! How in the heck did we get that POS here in
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I agree with Cridhe Saorsa. I am a Vietnam vet. When my daughter comes home from school and tells me how the U.S. lost the war in Vietnam I see red! The media,led by Cronkite, lost that war and they are doing it again in Iraq.
June 22nd, 2007 at 6:29 pm