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Sunday, July 20, 2008 History tells us that in 1939 and 40 then President Roosevelt wanted to come to the aid of Briton. He was hampered by the Isolationists who thought if we just stayed out of the conflict we would be left alone. They were wrong then and they are wrong now. This is an ever shrinking world and any conflict can be spread easily across the globe by those who are out to do us harm.

In 1941 the Japanese with a yahoo from the Germans brought us straight into the horrors of war. The Germans thought that if we were tied up in the Pacific we wouldn’t be able to come to the aid of England and help in the European theatre. We had one thing going for us back then, pride and an attitude of accomplishment.

We had weathered to Depression after WWI and with American ingenuity picked ourselves up by the bootstraps and proudly worked our way out of the depression. No one was going to put us back in the hole without a fight. Men flocked to the recruiting centers by the millions. Those who were told they couldn’t pass the physical turned around and signed up with another branch of the service and kept doing so until they got in. The country went immediately into a war production mode and started putting out military products. The women took over the bulk of the production jobs as their men went off to war.

Casualties were in the thousands on many days yet the women of America stood tall and fighting back tears of worry about their loved ones built tanks, planes and jeeps by the thousands. Our government was out to win at all cost and little attention was paid to civilian casualties in the process. If there was a call to bring home the troops it wasn’t loud enough to be heard over the roar of industry. The war lasted what seemed like a lifetime to those who waited on the shore and even longer to those who marched in the mud of Italy and the dust of Algiers.

The Pacific war jumped from one bloody island to the next. Each taking a higher toll on our troops and their equipment. Our Navy fought to the death on the seas of the South Pacific finally turning defeat in one victory after another.

Speed forward about 60 years and we find another devastating attack on America, this time on our very shores. Thousands of men raced to the recruiters to sign up for our now all volunteer military. They did so with pride and the country stood behind them until the first casualties that is. The folks in the military knew the risks and were willing to accept the chance of being killed or wounded. It was the folks back home who had grown soft and comfortable in their lives that couldn’t take the heat. The press jumped on the liberal bandwagon and showed only the violence of the war never did you see the soldier helping children or carefully risking his own life to make sure an innocent civilian didn’t get hurt.

The press didn’t get the large shipments of body bags that they anticipated so they took to manufacturing stories of atrocities and violence against civilians. Men who had been risking their lives to protect the rights of these perpetuators of lies were yanked from the field and sent to prisons to await their trials. Stripped of all dignity and pride they were forced to put their lives in the hands of lawyers to prove their innocence. Senators and Congressmen and women charged them with all types of hideous crimes. Congressman Jack Murtha said that they were a disgrace to our country and shouldn’t even be called Marines.

Well they were wrong then and they are wrong now. Each of these men were tried and cleared of any wrong doing. Did anyone hear Murtha or his leftist constituents apologize? Do I sound a little bitter? If I do it is because I find it appalling that anyone in our government would be so twisted as to use something so vile as a political ploy. I have come to believe that the far left in this country will do anything to win the will of the people. Their friends in the media should get an A+ for their effort to destroy our morale.

Thank God there are a few people in this country who haven’t sipped the koolaide they are serving in Washington. To the men who have been cleared I say God Bless you. To those still fighting I say God Speed, to Murtha and his cronies I say eat my shorts.

And that’s my opinion,
Don