4 posts tagged “navy”

This is 30 minutes of music and pictures memoralizing over three years of continuous

Friday night gatherings at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC.

It has been my honor and a privilege to have been a small part of this trubute to our brave

soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen serving.

Please allow time to view the whole thing and allow as many of your team to see it as possible.

From the DC Chapter of FreeRepublic and the DC Chapter of Protest Warrior please accept our sincere thanks for your service.

Never forget that you are always in our thoughts and prayers.

Please visit Tankerbabe's blog for updates on our progress supplying the 173rd Airborne Infantry with winter gear.

as always, the comments of the blog owner are in bolshevik red.

By Pam Meister

You may have heard that the “peace” activist group Code Pink recently defaced a Marine recruiting office in Berkeley, California. The office opened in Berkeley in the beginning of 2007, but no one seemed to take much notice of it until the local Code Pink chapter happened upon it and history, as they say, was made.

Posting signs such as “RECRUITERS LIE, OUR CHILDREN DIE!” and “ASSASIN” (sic), as well as spray painting epithets on the sidewalk, these (ahem) dedicated defenders of freedom and liberty are also harassing the landlord to cancel the lease. They plan to have regular protests until they’re successful in closing down the office. (For a pictorial essay of one of their protests, head on over to the blog Zombietime.)

I’m not sure I trust those who cannot spell “assassin” properly to protect me from one.

In their call to action, Code Pink also called military recruiters “traitors.” I’m assuming to be a traitor, one must commit treason. For the record, here is how our Constitution (Article III Section 3) defines treason:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

How Captain Richard Lund, who is the recruiter at the office, is a traitor is a bit of a head-scratcher for me. He’s confused too, as he professes in this open letter to Code Pink.

I’m sure you’ll agree that recruiters like Captain Lund do not exactly fit within the traitor mold. But what about Code Pink? According to Discover the Networks:

During the last week of December 2004, Medea Benjamin announced that Code Pink, Global Exchange, and Families for Peace would be donating a combined $600,000 in medical supplies and cash to the families of the terrorist insurgents who were fighting American troops in Fallujah, Iraq. In an article dated January 1, 2005, the online publication Peace and Resistance reported that Rep. Henry Waxman had written a letter addressed to the American ambassador in Amman, Jordan to help facilitate the transport of this aid through Customs.

So the group that provided supplies and cash to the families of terrorists calls Marine recruitment officers traitors? Psychiatrists call that “projection.”

Now, it's my turn. You can read the rest of the story at Family Security Matters, and you can read some more about code pinks' antics at FrontPage Magazine.

I have faced down these Marxist bitches several times over the past two years. In March of 2005, code pink began a war protest in front of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. They started by displaying flag draped coffins on the sidewalk in front of the Main Gate on Friday evenings, the busiest time for a military medical facility, with family members and friends visiting their loved ones. The assclowns held signs with slogans stating "Sign up here to die for Halliburton" and "Your son was maimed for a lie"

As the year wore on, in spite of the valiant attempts by members of the DC Chapter of FreeRepublic, code pink refused to change their message or their assembly times. In August of 2005, CyberCast News Service reported on this shameless display and code pink was forced to change their message from anti-war and anti-military to one of "We support the troops not the war" and "Support the Troops Bring them home". Same group, different message.

I began visiting the wounded at Walter Reed in October of 2005. Each time I introduced myself to a wounded soldier or family member, and explained why I showed up every Friday night, the first question I was asked was;

"Is there anything you can do about those hideous people?" My answer was always the same: "I will do what I can."

On 20 January 2006, I was finally able to do something. As leader of the DC Chapter of Protest Warrior, I obtained the permit for the corner where code pink held their anti-military protest. code pink and the marxist, anti-American moonbat assclowns no longer occupy the Main Gate of Walter Reed.

That was my gift to thank the men and women who sacrificed to protect my right to speak freely, to stand on a street and express an opinion; something that the left has yet to do.

This author gives 5 reasons. I only need one;

They stand on a fence, or on a hilltop, or on a wall, and they say:

I'm here, Everything is OK  I won't let anything hurt you tonight.

If a soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine in Iraq were to receive an anonymous care package or letter of support, who likely would have been its sender: a liberal or a conservative?

Chances are you said the latter. But why? Why are conservatives and Republicans seemingly more supportive of our troops than liberals?

It’s a good question.

I’m no political expert. In fact, I don’t even consider myself terribly “political.” But I do have five thoughts on why conservatives seem to lend far stronger and more vocal support to our military than liberals:

1. The military sees a clear line between good and evil.

The minute you start thinking that there’s no such thing as good and evil, right and wrong, it’s virtually impossible to support an organization like the military. The military applies lethal force in the service of what our nation deems “good” and “right.” If you believe that nothing is black and white, and that everything is morally gray, it’s hard to choose sides.

Some liberals sort of remind me of that lyric from that old song that goes: “There ain’t no good guys, there ain’t no bad guys. There’s only you and me and we just disagree.”

Marines don’t “disagree” with the enemy. We shoot to kill.

2. Veterans view themselves as servants, not victims.

I’ll go to my grave feeling nothing but gratitude in my heart for my beloved Corps and the U.S. military. My father earned his citizenship in our great country by serving for over 20 years as an Army Ranger. America has given me and my family more than we ever dreamed of.

I think the overwhelming majority of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines feel the same way: we consider defending our nation to be an honor, not a burden.

Except, of course, for Anthony Swofford, the guy who wrote that lame, whiny book Jarhead that got turned into a lame, whiny movie. Like all Marines, I can’t stand that book. (So much so, in fact, that I wrote my book as a counterbalance for those of us who truly love the Corps.)

3. The military stresses hard work, self-discipline, and personal responsibility.

Growing up, I was a member of one of the most violent street gangs in America. Back then I thought I knew what it was to “hustle” and to be “tough” and “hard.”

And then my beloved Corps got a hold of me.

I remember my Marine recruiter, Staff Sergeant Marquez, a six-foot-tall, dark-skinned Mexican-American Marine with a barrel chest, thin mustache, and bulging forearms. That guy ate punks like me for breakfast. And it was then, and only then, that I began to understand that all I had done up and to that point was crap and devoid of virtue.

Many liberals believe in hard work, too. But conservatives stress hard work and personal excellence as pathways to virtue (“Be all you can be,” as the Army would say). As any brother- or sister-in-arms will tell you, personal excellence gets stressed from day one of boot camp.

4. Service members understand that freedom is not free.

The Armed Forces do their part to cure us young folks of the historical amnesia that afflicts so many people of my generation (I’m 26). I can’t speak for other branches, but I’m sure they are similar.

As new recruits, we had Marine Corps history drilled into us daily. And so, later when we were out on some grueling field operation, for example, it was much harder to complain knowing the hell that our Marine grandfathers experienced at Tarawa, or the brutal fighting our Vietnam fathers endured.

What we understand is that if American history teaches us anything it is that freedom is a torch passed from one generation to the next.

Someone—the military—has to do the heavy lifting of history.

5. The military shoots guns. Lots of guns.

Okay, so I thought I’d lighten it up a bit. But I’m only half-joking. Conservatives support gun rights and the use of lethal force to protect innocent people. The military does, too. As I say, violence isn’t senseless. Senseless violence is senseless.

Admittedly, I’m not a political scientist at Harvard. I’m a former Marine. But that’s precisely my point: whom we link arms with and support says a lot about how we view America—and what we’re willing to do to protect it.

Semper Fi.

Marco Martinez, a recipient of the Navy Cross, is author of the new book Hard Corps: From Gangster to Marine Hero (Crown Forum).