The Average Age Of Military Man Is 19 Years Old

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Subject: What's wrong with this picture What's wrong with this picture? If you look closely at the picture above, you will note that all the Marines pictured are bowing their heads. That's because they're praying. This incident took place at a recent ceremony honoring the birthday of the corps, and it has the ACLU up in arms. "These are federal employees," says Lucius Traveler, a spokesman for the ACLU, "on federal property and on federal time. For them to pray is clearly an establishment of religion, and we must nip this in the bud immediately." When asked about the ACLU's charges, Colonel Jack Fessender, speaking for the Commandant of the Corps said (cleaned up a bit), "Screw the ACLU." GOD Bless Our Warriors, Send the ACLU to France.. Please send this to people you know so everyone will know how stupid the ACLU is Getting in trying to remove GOD from everything and every place in America. May God Bless America, One Nation Under GOD! What's wrong with the picture? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING GOD BLESS YOU FOR PASSING IT ON! I think ACLU stands for Association of Crack Lunatics Union

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THIS IS S LITTLE OLD BUT THE FEELING IS STILL THERE. HUGS SUNNY SKY Subject: Target Stores Amazing Issue with Target Stores If they have a good sale in their ads, take the ad to Wal-Mart, where they will meet the price............... Dick Forrey of the Vietnam Veterans Association wrote. "Recently we asked the local TARGET store to be a proud sponsor of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall during our spring recognition event. We received the following reply from the local TARGET management: 'Veterans do not meet our area of giving. We only donate to the arts, social action groups, gay & lesbian causes, and education.' " So I'm thinking, if the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and veterans in general do not meet their donation criteria, then something is really wrong at this TARGET store. We were not asking for thousands of dollars, not even hundreds, just a small sponsorship for a memorial remembrance. As a follow-up, I E-mailed the TARGET U.S. corporate headquarters and their response was the same. That's their national policy. Then I looked into the company further. They will not allow the Marines to collect for 'Toys for Tots' at any of their stores. And during the recent Iraq deployment, they would not allow families of employees who were called up for active duty to continue their insurance coverage while they were on military service. Then as I dig further, TARGET is a French-owned corporation. Now, I'm thinking again. If TARGET cannot support American Veterans, then why should my family and I support their stores by spending our hard earned American dollars and to have their profits sent to France. Without the American Vets, where would France be today?" ?Feel free to pass this along to whomever you want. Sincerely, Dick Forrey Veterans Helping Veterans SFC David Kaiser, Kay Kaiser Please send this on to everyone you know to let Target know how AMERICAN'S feel about their non-support of America and our support of them.

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Originally Posted by handymanmike92683

One Marine vs. 20 Idiots--
Guess Who Wins?

On Friday, we noted that a score of Ohio University students and others had
staged a "die-in" to protest the liberation of Iraq. The Post, the student
newspaper, carried a letter from Marc Fencil,
a senior who is also a Marine
currently stationed in Iraq, that is so excellent we reprint it in full:

It's a shame that I'm here in Iraq with the Marines right now and not back
at Ohio University completing my senior year and joining in blissful
ignorance with the enlightened, war-seasoned protesters who participated in
the recent "die-in" at College Gate.
It would appear that all the action is
back home, but why don't we make sure? That's right, this is an open
invitation for you to cut your hair, take a shower, get in shape and come on
over! If Michael Moore can shave and lose enough weight to fit into a pair
of camouflage utilities, then he can come too!

Make sure you all say your good-byes to your loved ones though, because you
won't be seeing them for at least the next nine months. You need to get here
quick because I don't want you to miss a thing. You missed last month's
discovery of a basement full of suicide vests from the former regime (I'm
sure Saddam's henchmen just wore them because they were trendy though).
You
weren't here for the opening of a brand new school we built either. You
might also notice women exercising their new freedom of walking to the
market unaccompanied by their husbands.

There is a man here, we just call him al-Zarqawi, but we think he'd be
delighted to sit down and give you some advice on how you can further
disrespect the victims of Sept. 11 and the 1,600 of America's bravest who
have laid down their lives for a safer world. Of course he'll still call you
"infidel" but since you already agree that there is no real evil in the
world, I see no reason for you to be afraid. Besides, didn't you say that
radical Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance?

I'm warning you though -it's not going to be all fun and games over
here.
You might have bad dreams for the next several nights after you zip up the
body bag over a friend's disfigured face. I know you think that nothing,
even a world free of terror for one's children, is worth dying for, but bear
with me here. We're going to live in conditions you've never dreamt about.
You should get here soon though, because the temperatures are going to be
over 130 degrees very soon and we will be carrying full combat loads (we're
still going to work though). When it's all over, I promise you can go back
to your coffee houses and preach about social justice and peace while you
continue to live outside of reality.

If you decide to decline my offer, then at least you should sleep well
tonight knowing that men wearing black face masks and carrying AK-47s
yelling "Allahu Akbar" over here are proud of you and are forever indebted
to you for advancing their cause of terror. While you ponder this, I'll get
back to the real "die-in" over here. I don't mind.
What can we say but "Semper fi"?

God Bless America
Saepius Exertus, Semper Fidelis, Frater Infinitas
Often Tested, Always Faithful, Brothers Forever.
United States Marines

Men like this make me Proud to be an Americam!!! God Bless all people who are fighting for freedom. May God please keep them all safe & bring them home soon.

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Originally Posted by sunny sky

Those of you who might not know, the man on the left is the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and he is proud to know the man on the right.

Maybe you'd like to hear about a real American, somebody who honored the uniform he wears

Meet Brian Chontosh
Churchville-Chili Central School
Class of 1991.



Proud graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology.







Husband and about-to-be father. First lieutenant (now Captain) in the United States Marine Corps.

And a genuine hero, the secretary of the Navy said so yesterday.

At 29 Palms in California Brian Chontosh was presented with the Navy Cross, the second highest award for combat bravery the United States can bestow.



That's a big deal. But you won't see it on the network news tonight




And all you'll read in Brian's hometown newspaper is two paragraphs of nothing.

The odd fact about the American media in this war is that it's not covering the American military. The most plugged-in nation in the world is receiving virtually no true information about what its warriors are doing.





Oh, sure, there's a body count. We know how many Americans have fallen. And we see those same casket pictures day in and day out.





And we're almost on a first-name basis with the jerks who abused the Iraqi prisoners. And we know all about improvised explosive devices and how we lost Fallujah and what Arab public-opinion polls say about us and how the world hates us.





We get a non-stop feed of gloom and doom.

But we don't hear about the heroes.

The incredibly brave GIs who honorably do their duty. The ones our grandparents would have carried on their shoulders down Fifth Avenue.






The ones we completely ignore, like Brian Chontosh.

It was a year ago on the march into Baghdad. Brian Chontosh was a platoon leader rolling up Highway 1 in a humvee.







When all hell broke loose.

Ambush city.

The young Marines were being cut to ribbons. Mortars, machine guns, rocket propelled grenades.






And the kid out of Churchville was in charge. It was do or die and it was up to him.


So he moved to the side of his column, looking for a way to lead his men to safety. As he tried to poke a hole through the Iraqi line his humvee came under direct enemy machine gun fire. It was fish in a barrel and the Marines were the fish. And Brian Chontosh gave the order to attack.







He told his driver to floor the humvee directly at the machine gun emplacement that was firing at them. And he had the guy on top with the 50 cal unload on them.











Within moments there were Iraqis slumped across the machine gun and Chontosh was still advancing, ordering his driver now to take the humvee directly into the Iraqi trench that was attacking his Marines.







Over into the battlement the humvee went and out the door Brian Chontosh bailed, carrying an M16



and a Beretta



and 228 years of Marine Corps pride.







And he ran along the trench, with its mortars and riflemen, machineguns and grenadiers. And he killed them all.

He fought with the M16 until it was out of ammo.

Then he fought with the Beretta until it was out of ammo. Then he picked up a dead man's AK4 and fought with that until it was out of ammo.



Then he picked up another dead man's AK47 and fought with that until it was out of ammo.



At one point he even fired a discarded Iraqi RPG into an enemy cluster, sending attackers flying with its grenade explosion.






When he was done Brian Chontosh had cleared 200 yards of entrenched Iraqis from his platoon's flank. He had killed more than 20 and wounded at least as many more.






But that's probably not how he would tell it. He would probably merely say that his Marines were in trouble, and he got them out of trouble. Ooh-rah, and drive on.






"By his outstanding display of decisive leadership, unlimited courage in the face of heavy enemy fire, and utmost devotion to duty, 1st Lt. Chontosh reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service."

That's what the citation says.
And that's what nobody will hear.
That's what doesn't seem to be making the evening news.



Accounts of American valor are dismissed by the press as propaganda, yet accounts of American difficulties are heralded as objectivity. It makes you wonder if the role of the media is to inform or to depress - to report or to deride. To tell the truth, or to feed us lies.



But I guess it doesn't matter. We're going to turn out all right As long as men like Brian Chontosh wear our uniform.



If you are as proud of this Marine as I am, then send this to EVERYONE YOU KNOW



Written By journalist and broadcaster Bob Lonsberry

Page by Mary Jones
June---2005

Thanks for this post sunny sky. Yor are so right, this does make me Proud. I have heard some thing about this before, but not all the detalls. God is the answer to winning this war. To bad our leaders want except this, instead of pushing God away.

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Thank You, It's Good To See People Still Remember. -k.rigney, Ssgt/usmc

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Originally Posted by YankeeTrappedInCA.

Thank You, It's Good To See People Still Remember. -k.rigney, Ssgt/usmc

Yes Sir, Some of us remember & respect you for all you do. God Bless You all & please keep you all safe. Love & hugs

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Originally Posted by YankeeTrappedInCA.

Thank You, It's Good To See People Still Remember. -k.rigney, Ssgt/usmc

Yep! There are quite a few of us on the Roo! We range from those who have no ties but still appreciate everything being done, through those who have friends/relatives in the service, right up to those who have actually served or are serving now. I'm glad you found this thread...alot of times threads will appear in the "Society" forum. Most important: THANK YOU for being there for us!

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No. Thank you for everything that has been done for our country!!! You will always be remembered and have a special place in our hearts. Prayers go out to you, your family, and other soldiers and their families. God bless you!!

Originally Posted by YankeeTrappedInCA.

Thank You, It's Good To See People Still Remember. -k.rigney, Ssgt/usmc

[handymanmike92683]

AMEN !!!
THANX HUN

Originally Posted by jadeladybug

Men like this make me Proud to be an Americam!!! God Bless all people who are fighting for freedom. May God please keep them all safe & bring them home soon.

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BUMP!

America the beautiful, or so you used to be.

Land of the Pilgrim's pride - I'm so glad they'll never see

Babies piled in dumpsters, abortion on demand.

Sweet land of liberty, your house is on the sand.



People wander aimlessly, poisoned by cocaine

Choosing to indulge, when God said to abstain.

From sea to shining sea, our country turns away

From the teaching of God's word, and the need to pray



Phony TV preachers tell lies about our Rock

Saying God has spoke to them, while they fleece the flock

We've voted in a government that's rotten to the core

Appointing Godless judges, who throw reason out the door



Too soft to place the killer, in his well deserved tomb

But brave enough to kill the child, before he leaves the womb.

You think God's not angry and sad that our land's a moral slum?

How much evil will He watch, before His Kingdom comes?



How are we to face our God, from whom we cannot hide?

What is left for us to do to stem this evil tide?

We who are called need always to humbly turn and pray

Teach others to seek His holy face, and leave their evil way.



Then God would hear from Heaven, and forgive us of our sin.

He'd heal our sickly land, and those who live within

But America The Beautiful, if you don't, then you shall see

A sad and holy Father withdraw His hand from thee.






~ Written by Judge Roy Moore