THe LAST SIX SECONDS!
Two years ago when I was the Commander of all U.S. and Iraqi forces, in fact, the 22nd of April 2008, two Marine infantry battalions, 1/9 “The Walking Dead,” and 2/8 were switching out in Ramadi. One battalion in the closing days of their deployment going home very soon, the other just starting its seven-month combat tour. Two Marines, Corporal Jonathan Yale and Lance Corporal Jordan Haerter, 22 and 20 years old respectively, one from each battalion, were assuming the watch together at the entrance gate of an outpost that contained a makeshift barracks housing 50 Marines. The same broken down ramshackle building was also home to 100 Iraqi police, also my men and our allies in the fight against the terrorists in Ramadi, a city until recently the most dangerous city on earth and owned by Al Qaeda.
The last six seconds… | Be John Galt
When people think of Iraq, think of ALL the young men and women who gave so much there, some their lives, some injuries that last a lifetime, families that will never be the same, and when you do, think of them "fondly" regardless of your feelings on why they were there. These young people are the best of us all, and they fought and still fight a war that did NOT require a sacrifice from the American people only themselves and their families. Perhaps when we think of it those terms we can begin to understand that these young people who went to Iraq some never to come home, did so because they wished to serve their nation and in so doing served us all.
Two years ago when I was the Commander of all U.S. and Iraqi forces, in fact, the 22nd of April 2008, two Marine infantry battalions, 1/9 “The Walking Dead,” and 2/8 were switching out in Ramadi. One battalion in the closing days of their deployment going home very soon, the other just starting its seven-month combat tour. Two Marines, Corporal Jonathan Yale and Lance Corporal Jordan Haerter, 22 and 20 years old respectively, one from each battalion, were assuming the watch together at the entrance gate of an outpost that contained a makeshift barracks housing 50 Marines. The same broken down ramshackle building was also home to 100 Iraqi police, also my men and our allies in the fight against the terrorists in Ramadi, a city until recently the most dangerous city on earth and owned by Al Qaeda.
The last six seconds… | Be John Galt
When people think of Iraq, think of ALL the young men and women who gave so much there, some their lives, some injuries that last a lifetime, families that will never be the same, and when you do, think of them "fondly" regardless of your feelings on why they were there. These young people are the best of us all, and they fought and still fight a war that did NOT require a sacrifice from the American people only themselves and their families. Perhaps when we think of it those terms we can begin to understand that these young people who went to Iraq some never to come home, did so because they wished to serve their nation and in so doing served us all.