Comments on: Freedom is not Free http://thedesired.net/?p=219 Perfect! Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:11:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Depekelesow http://thedesired.net/?p=219&cpage=1#comment-66643 Depekelesow Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:21:58 +0000 http://thedesired.net/?p=219#comment-66643 I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links: I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:

]]> By: Doodee http://thedesired.net/?p=219&cpage=1#comment-65466 Doodee Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:40:04 +0000 http://thedesired.net/?p=219#comment-65466 Thanks for sharing Thanks for sharing

]]> By: karen chelak http://thedesired.net/?p=219&cpage=1#comment-4765 karen chelak Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:56:35 +0000 http://thedesired.net/?p=219#comment-4765 Thank you, Ralph Herr, for your service to our country. You are a great American. Thank you, Ralph Herr, for your service to our country. You are a great American.

]]> By: Ralph Herr http://thedesired.net/?p=219&cpage=1#comment-4750 Ralph Herr Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:24:11 +0000 http://thedesired.net/?p=219#comment-4750 I'm a Marine, I served my country during Vietnam. I was in the infantry (Grunt 0311) and engaged in battle on more occasions than you would beleive. When I joined the Marine Corp in 1966 and went off to fight in Vietnam, we were called "hero's" for doing our part for our country. When we were in school, we were taught all about communisum (at least the part they wanted us to know). So when Vietnam came about, we were going to Vietnam with the intentions of slowing and stopping the communist movement and help the South Vietnamese people, become independant and that was our objective. That is what 99.9 percent of Marines and soldiers did. But when the My Lai massacre and Lt. William Calley was put on trial, WE WERE ALL PUT ON TRIAL AND FOUND GUILTY. Every American soldier was now the bad guys. When we returned to the states, we were labled as baby killers, raping women and children, shooting old men. We were subjected to ridicule, rejected by our government, and hated by the very people we thought we were protecting from communisum and for our freedom. It was the same country, at least the same land, but the people, their attitudes, their values, the appriciation for those who sacrificed in terms of American lives, wounded, taken POW, were changed forever. It wasn't enough that a Mother & Father lost a Son, or a Brother & Sister lost a Brother, a Wife lost her Husband, or a Child lost their Father. No, all they had to read the paper or listen to the news. They were told of the My Lai incident that ALL American Soldiers were lower than animals of the worst kind. We were respected and welcomed by the South Vietnamese people for the most part, but you did not read or hear that part. You did not read or hear of the real Hero's that lost all of the respect ,and were made to feel shame instead of pride, who saved lives and gave medical attention to the South Vietnamese people as well as our own wounded. The lives of so many people are changed in a war, but you just don't see the good that American Soldiers have done and continue to do. For some reason, we forget the happenings of 9-11. Hey, we lost 3000 civilians, mothers, fathers,sons,daughters, the unbelieveable happened. And that was just one attact. The paper doesn't want to print old news, that doesn't sell papers. Iraqie terrorists kill Iraqie women and children daily, every day. I garrantee you that our presents in the Middle East has saved a lot more than you could count. But you won't read that in the paper. That doesn't sell papers. And you won't see the Heroic deeds that Soldiers do every day on the morning, noon, or evening news. That doesn't boost ratings. I can't tell you what I think we should do, and get our troops back here and out of a hostile enviroment. They are trained to do a job, let them do it or get them out. Then give the job to the leaders, the politicians, and the news media and let them have a turn, and see how well they do. And if that fails, send in the Marines, get everybody else out, and let them do their job. And we will call you when we are done. I’m a Marine, I served my country during Vietnam. I was in the infantry (Grunt 0311) and engaged in battle on more occasions than you would beleive. When I joined the Marine Corp in 1966 and went off to fight in Vietnam, we were called “hero’s” for doing our part for our country. When we were in school, we were taught all about communisum (at least the part they wanted us to know). So when Vietnam came about, we were going to Vietnam with the intentions of slowing and stopping the communist movement and help the South Vietnamese people, become independant and that was our objective. That is what 99.9 percent of Marines and soldiers did. But when the My Lai massacre and Lt. William Calley was put on trial, WE WERE ALL PUT ON TRIAL AND FOUND GUILTY. Every American soldier was now the bad guys. When we returned to the states, we were labled as baby killers, raping women and children, shooting old men. We were subjected to ridicule, rejected by our government, and hated by the very people we thought we were protecting from communisum and for our freedom. It was the same country, at least the same land, but the people, their attitudes, their values, the appriciation for those who sacrificed in terms of American lives, wounded, taken POW, were changed forever. It wasn’t enough that a Mother & Father lost a Son, or a Brother & Sister lost a Brother, a Wife lost her Husband, or a Child lost their Father. No, all they had to read the paper or listen to the news. They were told of the My Lai incident that ALL American Soldiers were lower than animals of the worst kind. We were respected and welcomed by the South Vietnamese people for the most part, but you did not read or hear that part. You did not read or hear of the real Hero’s that lost all of the respect ,and were made to feel shame instead of pride, who saved lives and gave medical attention to the South Vietnamese people as well as our own wounded. The lives of so many people are changed in a war, but you just don’t see the good that American Soldiers have done and continue to do.
For some reason, we forget the happenings of 9-11. Hey, we lost 3000 civilians, mothers, fathers,sons,daughters, the unbelieveable happened. And that was just one attact. The paper doesn’t want to print old news, that doesn’t sell papers. Iraqie terrorists kill Iraqie women and children daily, every day. I garrantee you that our presents in the Middle East has saved a lot more than you could count. But you won’t read that in the paper. That doesn’t sell papers. And you won’t see the Heroic deeds that Soldiers do every day on the morning, noon, or evening news. That doesn’t boost ratings.
I can’t tell you what I think we should do, and get our troops back here and out of a hostile enviroment. They are trained to do a job, let them do it or get them out. Then give the job to the leaders, the politicians, and the news media and let them have a turn, and see how well they do. And if that fails, send in the Marines, get everybody else out, and let them do their job. And we will call you when we are done.

]]> By: Brenda http://thedesired.net/?p=219&cpage=1#comment-4709 Brenda Tue, 30 May 2006 18:36:43 +0000 http://thedesired.net/?p=219#comment-4709 Likewise, other holidays such as National Day or Racial Harmony Day (A commemorative occasion in Singapore) are always overly-commercialized such that people only seek those days for an extra day off, instead of thinking about how much our forefathers have sacrificed for us. And yes, we ought to cherish the life we have now. Likewise, other holidays such as National Day or Racial Harmony Day (A commemorative occasion in Singapore) are always overly-commercialized such that people only seek those days for an extra day off, instead of thinking about how much our forefathers have sacrificed for us.

And yes, we ought to cherish the life we have now.

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