reconmark
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I have friends with perfect physical bodies yet are Brain dead and will never utter a word for the rest of their lives...Technically, yes. However, I choose to expand it to include anyone who has volunteered to serve. Because regardless of motive, to servie is to say that you will be willing to lay your life down for country if called upon.Technically today we honor the memory of the fallen.Not today. He served. Today, we honor that service, regardless of the manner in which it was offered.Recon mark is a pussyReluctantly I would have to state that your post is one of the stupidiest post I have read on this board as well as one of the most blasphemous...
I don't elevate ANY MAN to the same status as Jesus Christ...how theologically ignorant of you.
A real soldier resulted in the justice afforded to the survivors of My Lai;
In one of the most horrific incidents of violence against civilians during the Vietnam War, a company of American soldiers brutally killed the majority of the population of the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai in March 1968. Though exact numbers remain unconfirmed, it is believed that as many as 500 people including women, children and the elderly were killed in the My Lai Massacre.. Higher-ranking U.S. Army officers managed to cover up the events of that day for a year before revelations by a soldier who had heard of the massacre sparked a wave of international outrage and led to a special investigation into the matter. In 1970, a U.S. Army board charged 14 officers of crimes related to the events at My Lai; only one was convicted.
A real soldier is always to ask questions...
I happened to have been in the vicinity of My Lai shortly before the Americal boys took matters into their own hands...that ville was a VC shithole full of bad actors. The cadre HID while their women and kids were sorted out as a lesson to other hamlets....we would do as their VC brethren had done hundreds of times and would continue to do in the future....massacre. No combat Vet would bring up My Lai you phony piece of shit.
We can all call Mark a Pussy any day of the year untill 11/11
But to serve on the kind of unit he described and make it back alive, doesn't really deserve the title of Pussy.
Yes, those who gave the ultimate measure of their devotion to America are whom I honor on this day, but all service is acknowledged.
To witness that absence of life and spirit in their eyes is more frightening than any physical wound I witnessed.
Memorial day is for them and not just the departed...