Memorial Day
Hi, all!
I thought I’d add this to our collection here. I’ve been following this guy ( he calls himself Major Pain and is really a US Marine) who writes the blog “One Marine’s View”. He just got back from Iraq and his stuff is pretty awesome. But here’s a snippet from his latest on Memorial Day. And if you want to read more, here’s the link:
http://www.onemarinesview.com/one_marines_view/
| Remember Memorial Day and America’s freedom fighter
Posted: 28 May 2010 02:18 AM PDT This Memorial weekend I got it, you have things to do, people to see. Families will travel, rest will be taken. But for all that is holy, please take if it’s only a few minutes and think of your warriors who will and have in the past walked through fire for you and this great country. It has been my humble pleasure to serve with some of the greatest citizens that routinely make the ultimate sacrifice to America and its people. For you they go into the usually worse conditions, at the worse time and make the biggest difference. Politics aside throughout the years, your warriors have gone and did the unpopular, the impossible and the unachievable and returned with stellar results and then got ready to do it again. On the flip side of that coin, there is unseen group of family members that wait, worry, cry, and cheer when they return one way or another. They are the pillars of strength behind your warriors that lend that special hand when times are tough, they too must not be forgotten. Especially after returning after this deployment, I can tell you with Afghanistan chow still in my gut, your Marines, Sailors, Airmen and Soldiers are doing fantastic things in that country as I have seen great improvements since my first deployment there and the best thing, the people there want us to make a difference. Do you get the “stink eye” from some when you patrol through villages? Sure but in counter insurgency operations, sometimes its difficult to see who is friend or foe. However, when a local farmer of the ripe age of early 70s musters all he has to raise his AK47 against an intimidating scumbag that wants to take his crops and because he knows if things go bad there is a US Marine patrol with in ears shot, at that point he himself makes a difference that has a positive domino effect and there is no mistake who is your “friend “ . |
Enjoy and God bless our troops.
Lise
www.lisefuller.com, www.elleamour.com,
Tags: Marines, Memorial Day, soldier, war, warriors
