SteveR I appreciate your fact findings cause I do not have the time. Hog forwarded me this.
Now I been reading on the CBid posts "who is this person and who is that person and why don't we find out and ask them personally".. well Boy's and
Girls when my Nephew gets home you can ask him... I'll introduce you to him personally
Below is an email sent to me from him I had to clean it up and it was not written by him but he endorsed it with this is what's going on below.. so I
can take his word for it...and if you can't well we can talk about that ;0)~~~
When he called his mom finally for the first time since he had been there 2 mo.(Iraq) he said Mom I'm on the Beach.. see you gotta watch what you say
over the lines.. he then said Mom it ain't any fun anymore.. (the month of April has been the hardest on our soldiers and he is right there in the same
below... I added this Hog) he could not go on to say he lost buddy's/close friends and fellow soldiers with him. he just said mom it ain't no fun anymore...now can anyone else decode the rest of his meaning? his mother couldn't until she talked to me... I sent her the clips of the guy's from his unit who have fallen.. god only knows it has to be addressed by Ted Copel himself...
Walk a mile in their boots.. then spew your guts about how many loss's...
better yet pull up a chair outside an army/marine/air force/navy base and blab off about the loss's... because I can tell you, you'll be corrected in
a heartbeat... we don't talk about those we lost we Press On in their Honor and this Country's honor!!!!!!!!!!!!
God Bless our Troops and God Bless America!!!!!!!!!
Hog
Jacob M Anderson 1st MHG
Pher gets these from a connection he has in Newport. Listen to the badass confidence these guys have. This is great. Sam, you're the coolest.
Jake
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FYI. I have not received an e-mail from my son for several days, but he has managed to call. He spent one night flying blood supplies and medical evacuations.
Jacques Following was forwarded from Jacques
2nd Battalion, 4th Marines in Fallujah
This is a report from the 2d Battalion 4th Marines and the battle in Fallujah.
I can only assume that LtCol Kennedy is the Battalion Commander.
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 2:03 AM
Subject: Update from LtCol Kennedy
Dear Ladies, the last two days have been the hardest two days this battalion has faced in over 30 years. Within the blink of an eye the situation went form relatively calm to a raging storm. You've known that since arriving there has been violence; attacks have been sporadic and mostly limited to roadside bombs. Your husbands have become experts at recognizing those threats and neutralizing them before we are injured.
Up to this point the war has been the purview of corporals and sergeants, and the squad they lead.
Yesterday the enemy upped the ante.
Early in the morning we exchanged gunfire with a group of insurgents without significant loss. As morning progressed, the enemy fed more men into the fight and we responded with stronger force. Unfortunately, this led to injuries as our Marines and sailors started clearing the city block by block. The enemy did not run; they fought us like soldiers. And we destroyed the enemy like only Marines can. By the end of the evening the local hospital was so full of their dead and wounded that they ran out of space to put them. Your husbands were awesome all night they stayed at the job of securing the streets and nobody challenged them as the hours wore on. They did not surrender an inch nor did flinch from the next potential threat. Previous to yesterday the terrorist thought that we were soft enough to challenge. As of tonight the message is loud and clear that the Marines will not be beaten.
Today the enemy started all over again, although with far fewer numbers, only now the rest of the battalion joined the fight. Without elaborating too much, weapons company and Golf crushed their attackers with the vengeance of the righteous. They filled up the hospitals again and we suffered only a few injuries. Echo company dominated the previous day's battlefield. Fox company patrolled with confidence and authority; nobody challenged them. Even Headquarters Company manned their stations and counted far fewer people openly watching us with disdain. If the enemy is foolish enough to try to take your men again they will not survive contact.
We are here to win. The news looks grim from back in the States.
We did take losses that, in our hearts, we will always live with.
The men we lost were taken within the very opening minutes of the violence.
They could not have foreseen the treachery of the enemy and they did not suffer.
We can never replace these Marines and Sailors but they will fight on with us in spirit.
We are not feeling sorry for ourselves nor do we fear what tomorrow will bring.
The battalion has lived up to its reputation as Magnificent Bastards.
Yesterday made everyone here stronger and wiser; it will be a cold day in Hell before we are taken for granted again.
