Posted on 29 March 2012. Tags: Act Of Kindness, Acts Of Kindness, Baby Killers, Celebrations, Combat Zone, Contact Lists, Dave Perkins, Gratitude, Heroic Efforts, Parades, Random Act Of Kindness, Random Acts Of Kindness, Sacrifice, Ticker Tape, Veitnam Vet, Veterans Day, Vietnam Vet, Vietnam Veterans, Vietnam Vets, Www Youtube
What a great song and video. Thank a Vietnam Vet for your freedom and their sacrifice. I am so angered when I hear that! I know that when our Vets came home in the 60/s and 70′s they were treated so poorly. Many have told me they had orders to not wear their uniforms when [...]
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Posted on 01 September 2010. Tags: address-on-iraq, Afghanistan, Army Captain, Battalion Commander, Belligerents, Bittersweet Moment, Carl Von Clausewitz, Combat Battalion, Combat Operations, commander, Commander In Chief, Conflagration, Desert Shield, Fellow Warriors, Freedom, Heroic Efforts, Imposition, Lt Col Allen West, Obama, Operation Iraqi Freedom, operation-iraqi, patriot, People, Political Decision, Political Ideology, Politics, President, Reference, Residual Effects, Senator Obama, speech, Strategic Objectives, stryker-brigade
Received this email a minute ago. I wholeheartedly agree with statement. Greetings Patriot! My experiences in Iraq go back to 1991 with Operations Desert Shield/Storm as a young Army Captain. I returned to Iraq in 2003 as a combat Battalion Commander for Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is a bittersweet moment for me to watch our Commander-in-Chief declare an end to Operation Iraqi Freedom and further combat operations. I have studied and been a part of half-measured warfare, and have seen its residual effects. My fear is that the heroic efforts of my fellow Warriors will fall to this lesson of history. Ending combat operations is not just a convenient political decision. As Carl von Clausewitz stated, “War is the imposition of one’s will upon another.” I found President Obama’s address on Iraq unnecessary, confusing, conciliatory, and lacking focus. There was never a definitive outline of strategic objectives to defeat the global conflagration against the radical Islamic theocratic-political ideology and non-state, non-uniformed belligerents against which we combat. Furthermore, the reference to the …
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