A Memorial Day Tribute
Thank you to Jim Nagle for this wonderful tribute, and thank you to R1 for forwarding it. Nothing more need be said.
Happy Memorial Day
The Least We Can Do
As our Commander in Chief contemplates whether to substitute his own judgment for the advice of the General he appointed to shake up a troubled war effort in Afghanistan, our soldiers are dying.
As our President considers his options in the eighth meeting with his war council this afternoon, our soldiers are dying.
As Time magazine reports that “secondary trauma” may have driven Major Nidal Malik Hasan to massacre 13 US soldiers at Fort Hood, our soldiers are dying.
As the politically correct turn a blind eye to inadequate diligence and communication as to Major Hasan’s actions and words, clear signals of a problem brewing, our soldiers are dying.
As the liberal media refuses to identify radical Islamic fanaticism as a motivating force behind the Fort Hood shootings, our soldiers are dying.
As we try to find new, more comfortable words to describe the war on terror, our soldiers are dying.
During deployment, our heroic soldiers and their families live in constant fear for their lives, fear of an enemy unlike any other this country has ever faced; an enemy that will gladly sacrifice civilians, women and children, with no remorse, in order to further their cause and kill the infidels. The least we can do is provide them with a sense of direction and purpose, with the comfort that there is a plan, that their Commander in Chief is decisive and resolute. The least we can do is provide them with assurance that when they are home, on our own soil and in the confines of their own base, they will indeed be safe and that we will not allow a misguided sense of all things politically correct to prevent us from ensuring that safety. On this Veteran’s Day, indeed, every day, that’s the least we can do. (more…)
