Lest We Forget

[tobaccoroad]

6,871 dead Marines, begining on February 19, 1945. Freedom is not free.

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-701-s&va=battle+of+iwo+jima

 

[NightSwimmer]

Freedom is not free?

A more apt statement would be "War is not without casualties." The vast majority of our recent wars have had nothing whatsoever to do with our own freedom.

 

[Bo-4]

Freedom is not free?

A more apt statement would be "War is not without casualties." The vast majority of our recent wars have had nothing whatsoever to do with our own freedom.

Yep, gotta go all the way back to WWll to actually find a war having anything to do with our own freedom.

 

[888888]

Oh I think most of the kids killed defending our way of life thought they were defending America even when they went to God forsaken places like Vietnam and Iraq. When we have men putting kids in position of life and death, of their own and others for the purpose of getting what they think is desirable but has nothing to do with defending America and our way of life, we should not in any way think/say less of Kids trying to do the duty American's holds so high.

The high standard of Americas military over the last 50 years has suffered, but not from their ability to fight, but for the reason our commanders have sent them to fight.

 

[tobaccoroad]

Of Course! The Commies didn't want to impinge on America's freedom just a bit? Nikita Kruschev was just off on a vodka fueled rant when he threatened America with "We will bury you!", Joe Stalin was just kiddin us when he shut the airways into Berlin down, and the Russian Army was just having a Sunday afternoon picnic in Budapest in 1956 when they were running over the Hungarian protestors with their tank treads then pivoting the tank on the body haplessly pinned underneath.
Of course. we'll just sit here wallowing in our "Victory Disease" until Islam puts the scimitar to our throats and starts slicing. Until then, we'll pretend the morning of 9/11 never happened, Michael Pearl was never murdered, the Khobar Towers and the USS Cole never happened. You guys gonna be able to find your way down the rabbit hole OK or do we have to call Alice to lead you?