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This article was brought to my attention by our good friend Mustang.

I’m pulling a little bit here, the last paragraph of this:

“We bury our dead with great honor and dignity, but the wounded live on. They are the ones we as Americans should not forget.”

Go read it. And be inspired by the few and proud, who always look out for one another.

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Michael has a t shirt that states:
When It Absolutely, Positively Has To Be Destroyed Overnight - US Marines

The United States calls upon the Marines to go into every situation that is dangerous. The Marines’ history is full of tales of wars and battles and campaigns that required skill, valor and- when needed- the courage to kill the enemy. All this talk about the Haditha “incident” is just that: Talk.

Rumors and lies and half truths are being spread. Politicians are using this event for their own personal means. Others are riding the bandwagon to bash the President and the war. Who is thinking about the actual Marines involved?

The media should be ashamed of themselves. This past Monday was Memorial Day. That day we’re supposed to honor those who gave their lives in the call to duty. While some local media outlets did chose to run stories that did preserve the meaning of the day, others acted in selfish manner.

So how does the “public press” celebrate Memorial Day this year? By plastering stories across the front pages featuring alleged atrocities by our troops in Haditha, Iraq. “The Shame of Kilo Company,” banners Time magazine, which originally reported the story. “Bloody Scenes Haunt a Marine,” blares the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times proclaims, “Iraqis’ Accounts Link Marines to the Mass Killing of Civilians.” On the day before Memorial Day, anti-war Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., appeared on ABC’s “This Week,” demanding to know “Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long? … We don’t know how far it goes. It goes right up the chain of command … I will not excuse murder, and this is what happened.”

The days prior to Monday were also full of this talk. It was part of big plan, I’m sure, to yet again bash the American military, to bash the Marines in particular.

War is ugly. Horrible things happen. Those Americans responsible for reprehensible acts will be punished by the military itself. Why is this news?

Why the need for the press to trumpet this news as though civilians had never been slain in the history of modern combat? Why the constant reminders of Abu Ghraib? Why the continuous focus on what Americans have done wrong, rather than what we’re doing right?

Why? Because the press has nothing else to focus on right now. The military has always been a favorite target. And focusing on the good stuff, well, just doesn’t make for good headlines. Fuck them. The good headlines could end up costing the lives of our American warriors. But the media doesn’t care.

Until the press realizes its authority is far less important than the lives of American soldiers — the same soldiers who fight to protect the rights of the American press — American soldiers will continue to face heightened hatred brought on by superfluous and counterproductive media attention. The press wishes to both undermine the mission of American soldiers and simultaneously decorate soldiers’ graves with flowered copies of the daily newspaper. This is perversion. The press’ sick delight in its own glorification continues to increase the number of “passionless mounds” in Arlington National.

I’m sick of the media’s double play on this. On the one hand they report unfounded stories and exaggerate the facts. They don’t check their sources and they spin the wording. Prison abuse and Gitmo starvation - yes- these things happened but on a much smaller scale than most think. Haditha happened, from the looks of things we know now, but it’s not as bad as the media wants everyone to think.

And the other point here: These people, these Islamafreakoids, want to KILL Americans. They did on September 11th.
They kidnap and behead inncent people. They blow themselves up on school busses full of kids. They drive bomb laden trucks into churches where weddings are taking place. The media fondles the enemy. They try to make us feel sorry for them. They want us to understand them. I say, NO. I know the enemy. I know what they have done and what they want to keep doing.

I choose the Marines. I elect them to destroy, overnight, anyone who has aim to hurt my family and friends. I call upon the Marines to do their job and do it with excellence. If a few “innocent” people get killed in that process, so be it.

THIS IS WAR. The media should get that by now but they don’t. I don’t think they ever will.

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