That man's company
With all the recent publicity of the elections coming to a close....my thoughts of Senator Kerry as commander in chief are best described with this excerpt from Shakespeare's Henry V:
........"Whoever does not have the stomach for this fight, let him depart. Give him money to speed his departure since we wish not to die in that mans company. Whoever lives past today and comes home safely wiil rouse himself every year onthis day, show his neighbor his scars, and tell embellished stories of all their great feats of battle. These stories will teach his son, and from this day until the end of the world we shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for who has shed his blood with me shall be my brother. And those men afraid to go will think themselves lesser men as tey hear of how we fought and died together."..........
........"Whoever does not have the stomach for this fight, let him depart. Give him money to speed his departure since we wish not to die in that mans company. Whoever lives past today and comes home safely wiil rouse himself every year onthis day, show his neighbor his scars, and tell embellished stories of all their great feats of battle. These stories will teach his son, and from this day until the end of the world we shall be remembered. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for who has shed his blood with me shall be my brother. And those men afraid to go will think themselves lesser men as tey hear of how we fought and died together."..........
posted by militarybrat at 1:11 AM
4 Comments:
AMEN!
Coming from SW Ohio, and believing as you do that Kerry is the "wrong man at the wrong time in the wrong country", this election was by far the most important of my life. It took me FOREVER to vote, it seemed. I went to the polls 3 times before it looked like I would have enough time stay and vote. When I did stay, I was there for an hour and a half. I was nervous, frazzelled, frustrated, tired, wet (it was raining) and easily angered by the time I left. Some people in Ohio waited 3 hours or more to vote, so I guess it didn't have it too bad when you compare my wait to theirs. I'm just glad it paid off and we have FOUR MORE YEARS!
Thanks for all you do- come home safe!
Hi Maggie...
nothing personal but i dont agree much with that whole debate.Joining the military doesnt make you patriotic and it doesn't make you a warrior.Everyone has there own reasons for joining. Not to mention the fact that anything i did twenty or so years ago is pretty irrelevant unless it has shaped a dominant part of who i am today. With senator Kerry it doesn't appear to.
I say that because one of the Senator Kerry opposes the war. The seem to be ignorant for someone in his position. He acts as though it is a terrible thing that the troops are deployed there and keeps bringing up the losses of 1000 service members.....as though it is a terrible ordeal we are putting the troops thru and the troops dont support it. But the truth is the troops hate being here........it does suck.......and we cant wait to leave....... but what we are doing is important and all the troops i know of want to be a part of this and believe in the mission. Senator Kerry also didnt support Georges Bush's reason for going into Iraq. Since our weapons inspectors fund no weapons of mass destruction......But Saddam H launched weapons ofmass deestruction at american troops in the beginning of the war..... weapons he said he didn't have, weapons the inspectors didn't find....but our scuds shot them down. It is a fact.... i know people who were there. I have freinds who have closed down many,many,many alqida terrorist training camps...physically arresting the terrorists and removing weapons themselves with their unit. This is in Iraq had more weapons than the US. By tons. It is a fact......my freinds and their comrades have recovered more weapons than you can imagine. They risk their lives for this mission....and they do it voluntarily. A soldier who lost his arm in an IED attack in Afghanistan just reenlisted in the army.....
I have freinds who train and fight along side the iraqi soldiers, And they are making great progress.... they are now completely independent in several sectors and are on their own now able to keep their country safe. It will take time. But we are teaching them to defend themselves so no man can again have people eaten alive in a lion cage. My freinds had their picture taken in front of the cage where Saddam did this. He killed far more iraqis that were killed in both desert storm and this war for iraqi freedom ...but he did it for sport.
I definately support what we are doing there...we gave them freedom and are teaching them to defend themselves to keep it. We have taken weapons out of the hands of people who wish to do harm to americans. We have closed down the training camps for those who wish to harm americans...arrested thse who wish to harm americans...and have recognized the need for increased security in the U.S. Since 9-11 there have been no terrorist attack on our soil. The world is a safer place because of what we are doing.....butif we took these measure before Sept 11th... and Sept 11th never happened....people would complain because of all the unnecessary money we spent. We have prevented many terrorist attacks, but those succeses are not easily seen, especially since alot of that info is classified.
Meggie...
You have to remember there was a draft at that time. Kerry had almost no way to avoid it. He obviously had aspirations for politics already, so he couldn’t skip the country like Clinton did. But the real telling is the fact that he left the battlefield as soon as he was able to accumulate three purple hearts. He was only over there four months, from what I have been told. (There was a deal that if you received three purple hearts, you could come back to the states, or at least get out of Vietnam.) I don’t consider that especially brave of him. It was people like many of the liberal left wing that are trying to get us out of Iraq now that gummed up the works for our troops then, as they are now. The politicians are going to listen to some extent, and as the anti-war rhetoric builds, it causes them to choke back on what we are doing, resulting in poorer results. We need to maintain a united (as in United States) front to defeat the enemy. The whining to leave is going to cause more lives to be lost. Please support the troops and the United States by supporting our elected leaders.
Howdy!
Just found your blog via CB. I could have commented anywhere, but it's so fitting that Shakespeare's Henry V speech, the most inspiring oration I've ever heard or read (George Patton's comes in a close second) was topmost. I used to fly on the Electric Herk (EC130H COMPASS CALL) and had a lot of respect for the folk who kept that old bird running. My Dad was a maintenace troop on C-7s and C-130s (and earlier stuff) until he crosstrained into big jet (B-52, KC-135) fuel systems. Thanks for doing what you do, with both the wrench and a keyboard.
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