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- theblueprint, on 11/08/2007, -57/+498Amazing story.
Everyone should read this and take a moment to appreciate what our soldiers overseas face on a daily basis. Regardless of your position on the war, our soldiers are putting it all on the line in the name of the America we all hold so dear.
A big "thank you" to them all. - ralph12c41, on 11/08/2007, -42/+206Thank You to all who serve, the country is indebted to you....
- inactive, on 11/08/2007, -41/+186These kids are incredible. God bless them. I can't imagine the emotional toll they must be going through as a result of this.
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 11/08/2007, -27/+170Al Qaeda wanted a Tet, but those paratroopers turned that staircase in Samara into a Thermopylae.
Μολών λαβέ - HalfGiraffe, on 11/07/2007, -34/+127Please do not use the word "terrorist" when referring to insurgents attacking a military position. A terrorist is someone who attacks civilians with the intent of creating "terror" it is not an appropriate word to describe local residents attacking what is (in their eyes at least) a foreign occupying army.
- Hortnon, on 11/08/2007, -25/+110One of my regrets from my military service is that I didn't get an oppurtunity to deploy. It may sound weird, but many many American soldiers volunteer to deploy overseas. A lot of us feel that just because we don't have a combat-oriented job, we aren't immune to the responsibility of going out and putting our life on the line. It's almost a feeling of "it's not fair for those guys". We all do our part in this.
I, and all of my fellow Airman, would've been honored to serve with these men.
Thanks for the submission, Bohica. - JohnReb, on 11/07/2007, -7/+76While I agree with your sentiment, hence the digg up, I have a pet peeve about calling our troops "kids". They only seem to be kids because some of us, like me, are looking back from a more advanced age. They aren't kids, and they have certainly earned the right to be called men and women.
- thechr0nic, on 11/05/2007, -21/+79inspiring and heroic story
- treehugger87, on 11/07/2007, -40/+97Something about this story makes me feel like I'm being marketed to. It reads too much like a WWII news short at the movie theater. There are just so many military cliches. I went one step further and looked up some of Jeff Emanual's other writing, and I can't find evidence that he ever uses this "style" in his writing, so I guess it's just something special he dug up for the American Spectator.
I also have to say that something about this line made me uncomfortable:
"Within the next hours and days, more information would come to light, both through the interrogation of captured insurgents and through the development of more human intelligence on the situation. According to the available evidence, nearly 40 al Qaeda were directly involved in the assault on Reaper's position "
I do thank these soldiers. These brave young men who have no choice but to obey their orders and go where they are told despite the dangers and how much they miss home. However, I've been lied to too much by schills just like Jeff Emanual to buy into this hook, line and sinker. - tomasII, on 11/05/2007, -23/+76Unbelievable bravery! God bless our men who endure this.
- Porkchoppower, on 11/05/2007, -24/+68Your views of the war are irrelevant. Thank military members for the freedoms you take for granted.
- bobbknight, on 11/03/2007, -6/+49Least you forget we kicked ass in Vietnam during Tet, though the MSN of the day reported it as if we lost.
- JohnReb, on 11/03/2007, -17/+59Was anyone else reminded of the joke from the 6 Day War with the punchline "It's a trap, there are two of them!"
- Troika37, on 11/13/2007, -5/+45You guys who never deployed - I did five tours between Iraq and Afghanistan (none of them longer than 8 months) as a swimmer in a combat rescue squadron. Never once in all my time over did I experience anything close to this. I came home to friends who considered me a hero and a country that condemned me with her loudest (yet smallest) voice. Neither of them were right. Heroes were on that rooftop, demonstrating once again that for us, the war isn't about politics, or Bush or WMD. It's about getting your buddies home. Period. Those who have never served will never understand that.
- inactive, on 11/13/2007, -1/+39Yeah, because you guys that sit around on digg all day have so much experience in real life firefights. Playing Counter Strike online doesn't count.
- inactive, on 11/03/2007, -8/+45They're my age or younger. I still call anyone my age a "kid". Sorry if I offended anyone.
- bamapachyderm, on 11/08/2007, -15/+45I know what you mean, Hortnon; I was kinda bummed during the Gulf War because I didn't get to go (I was also Air Force, 85-96). I still wish I were still on active duty, too, but I was medically retired.
- Hortnon, on 11/03/2007, -19/+49Oh, I bet you think you're clever. I hope you get put in a position where your life is in danger, and you feel like there is no way out. Then, maybe, you'll understand why you're an ***** to make that comment.
- airforceteacher, on 11/13/2007, -9/+38Twenty years, and I finally made it over here. I'm thankful for the opportunity.
- doctorfungi, on 11/05/2007, -17/+45Go and say that to the face of the soldiers that lived through it. Pussy.
- miketherazor, on 11/03/2007, -10/+38If you had read the story, sunshine, you would have seen that those were foreign fighters, not Iraqis. Although you do make a good point, I just saw the movie, "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" and I consider the Irish as freedom fighters and I wish they would have stomped your asses. Talk about torture, what you Brits did in Ireland was beyond torture so as of now I refuse to be talked down to by the likes of you when it comes to how to treat prisoners.
- principle, on 11/05/2007, -26/+53This story reads like a feel-good propaganda movie script.
- luther70, on 11/04/2007, -3/+30You know its possible to be against the war and still respect the courage of the people fighting it.
- doctorfungi, on 11/06/2007, -7/+33No, but I just found some weapons grade stupidity on Digg.
- smacksaw, on 11/02/2007, -2/+27Wow. You out-troll someone you call a troll.
Deluded, much? - datastorageguy, on 11/03/2007, -3/+27Μολών λαβέ
In case anyone is interested in the meaning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe
Apparently, the upside down V on allied tanks is in reference to this as well:
The inverted V symbol represents a Spartan saying, Molon Labe! (mo-lone lah-veh) or "Come and take them!", "Come get them!", or "Come get it!". The closest translation would be the first "Come and Take Them!". Here is a very brief break down of the story behind the "inverted V": The story is that the Persian King sent a messenger telling the Spartans to lay down their spears and they would be spared. The Spartans cut off his head and inscribed "Molon Labe" (Come take them) and sent it back to the Persians. There were only 300 Spartans, they held off 1,000,000, what more can be said. I hope this helped. - epicstruggle, on 11/02/2007, -4/+27Im not sure if your misguided or just ignorant, either way your an idiot.
- JohnReb, on 11/03/2007, -4/+27It isn't offensive. Just a word that grates on my ear. No more, no less.
- JacobVorpahl, on 11/04/2007, -3/+25Well, I took your statement literally, and before you even said it! I believed in the war in Iraq, I signed with the Marines in 2004 and deployed to Ramadi in 2006. I'll probably go again in 2009 and I'll still be supportive of it, because I've been over there and I know what can be accomplished over there, as long as the politicians quit screwing it up (that's aimed at Bremer and Rumsfeld).
So, as the saying goes, I've put my money where my mouth is. And so have MANY other people, since it is an all volunteer military at this point. - BohicaTwentyTwo, on 11/02/2007, -4/+26The MSM will probably never cover this story. Even that could be considered a victory considering what Al Qaeda's intentions were.
- longbow486, on 11/13/2007, -5/+27i was stuck in a windowless building in Ohio for three years, and never once got deployed, yet i was seeing my buddies going over every 4 months or so.
- Hortnon, on 11/02/2007, -6/+28No. I'm flattered that you took the time to figure that out, though. What, 20 seconds on Google?
- Wacer, on 11/04/2007, -13/+35What a scary situation to be trapped in.
- Pinhedd, on 11/05/2007, -4/+26Be safe boys, come home alive.
- TheDHC, on 11/05/2007, -3/+24yea, digg comments are the correct barometer to judge how the country is doing, go back to watching anime
- JPOOPOO, on 11/13/2007, -82/+103Anyone who actually cares about our troops are out there protesting to get them back here, out of danger, and out of an illegal war. They really aren't protecting us from anything we could have prevented through rational foreign policy. Every death in Iraq has been meaningless, unless you call making war profiteers richer a meaning.
Our soldiers do not deserve the kind of disrespect Washington is showing them - compdude32, on 11/13/2007, -3/+24Ah yes, because the MSM is soooo good at picking up stories about heros in Iraq. Actually the MSM is only good at picking up AlQuedia propaganda.
- sangjmoon, on 11/13/2007, -4/+24The soldiers don't want our pity. They want their sacrifices appreciated instead of viewed as left wing propaganda that their situation is hopeless and that they should get out. They also don't want right wing propaganda that everything is fine. There are lots of room for improvement in what the USA is doing in Iraq.
- Buelldozer, on 11/08/2007, -8/+28Has it occurred to you that all of the U.S. troops fighting over there *are* volunteers? O.o
- epicstruggle, on 11/03/2007, -12/+31Id love to see the hollywood version of this.Scratch that, since it would probably make the soldiers the bad guys.
- brokenspatula, on 11/05/2007, -21/+39Go back to crooksandliars.com, all your digg posts suck
- epicstruggle, on 11/02/2007, -6/+24That is by far the exception and not the rule. Coalition soldiers are putting their life to help Iraq stand up for itself.
- zenoizen, on 11/02/2007, -2/+20It's mean endearingly, most likely. Still you have a good point.
- HalfGiraffe, on 11/04/2007, -5/+22I have the greatest respect for the skill and courage of your armed forces. I also have the greatest disrespect for the lies and propaganda of your leadership that keep them engaged in a phony war against supposed "terrorists" in a place where your country has no legitimate reason for being. It's the use of entirely inaccurate terms like "terrorist" to describe an entirely military engagement that distorts the entire discussion of the tragic misadventure in Iraq.
- theblooms, on 11/03/2007, -4/+21And they would change it to one crazed American leader, with a sensible Brit, Aussie and Pole trying to reign him in.
- boonesfarm, on 11/13/2007, -17/+34And thats how you think you serve our country... by telling American soldiers "thanks for fighting this war, despite not being able to comprehend the wrong you're doing."
Mighty big of you. I'm sure they appreciate your insight. - JacobVorpahl, on 11/11/2007, -0/+17I love the story and hate to correct someone on it, but, study it out: there were 7,000 Greeks, 300 of which were Spartans. Some were slaves made to fight and others were small contingents from other city-states. And Herodotus inflated the numbers of Persians, it was actually something like 150K-200K. The story of Thermopylae is still amazing and is my favorite war story, but it wasn't 300 vs. 1million.
- Scaryclouds, on 11/13/2007, -0/+17Grenades come in extremely varying qualities. I have heard stories of grenades going off within mere feet of people and those people surviving. You also have to take in account where the soldier was positioned, may there was something blocking the shrapnel... There are a lot of variables.
- inactive, on 11/04/2007, -5/+22You must have missed it when the article pointed out (several times) that most of the fighters were foreign, not natives fighting to protect their land.
- StarlessKnight, on 11/03/2007, -1/+18Mark Twain once said, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning-bug." So, yes, the difference of Terrorist and Insurgent is an important distinction and is nothing like China-Man vs. Asian American--one is labeling a type of enemy combatant, the other labeling an ethnic group (with potential racism and or slur factor).
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