Where Has the Spirit Gone
Wil Wirtanen has sent me another insightful essay:
Where has the Spirit Gone
While listening to Special Report with Brit Hume the other night, they highlighted Lt. Col. James Coffman who was an advisor to an elite Iraqi unit. The story is part of their new series American Heroes that is on Special Report with Brit Hume.
The Col.’s unit was ambushed in Mosul and all but one of the Iraqi officers was killed. He was wounded in the hand and his weapon was damaged beyond use. He used several AK’s from the wounded to defend his men and himself. After a four hour firefight they were rescued by another unit. The Col. stayed around for several hours to make sure all of his men were accounted for.
The Col. was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and an award for from the Iraq government. He is one of four awarded the DSC in the war on terror.
The most stunning part of the piece was his statement toward the end of the interview:
``I can not think of a more noble calling than to assist 28 million people achieve democracy. My little sacrifice seems insignificant.``
My immediate thought was `What if Lafayette, von Steuben, Pulaski, and the French, had not assisted us in the Revolutionary War?’ What if they had followed the Dimocrat strategy for building a democracy?
The motives of these people during the Revolutionary War are not important. They were there to help and they sacrificed.
The Dimocrats seem to have cut the word sacrifice out of their dictionary along with the words patriotism and victory. Hopefully, they will not cut the money.
One has to question where the spirit of pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty has gone? Sadly, it has died with the man.
Our troops volunteered for service and know the stakes. They have not forgotten that freedom is not free.
Is Iraq perfect? NO! But it is a start. The rough edges of the beginning of our country have been smoothed away by the passage of time. Anyone reading about our early history has to wonder how we made it.
The Dimocrats have not found anything worth fighting for lately. Oops, I forgot they will fight for killing babies, giving privileges to people based on their skin color, and to stop you from expressing your first amendment right of religion and your second amendment rights.
The Dimocratic spirit is best characterized by the statement of John Stuart Mill:
`War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.`
Obviously, we have those better men today serving in Iraq
Where has the Spirit Gone
While listening to Special Report with Brit Hume the other night, they highlighted Lt. Col. James Coffman who was an advisor to an elite Iraqi unit. The story is part of their new series American Heroes that is on Special Report with Brit Hume.
The Col.’s unit was ambushed in Mosul and all but one of the Iraqi officers was killed. He was wounded in the hand and his weapon was damaged beyond use. He used several AK’s from the wounded to defend his men and himself. After a four hour firefight they were rescued by another unit. The Col. stayed around for several hours to make sure all of his men were accounted for.
The Col. was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and an award for from the Iraq government. He is one of four awarded the DSC in the war on terror.
The most stunning part of the piece was his statement toward the end of the interview:
``I can not think of a more noble calling than to assist 28 million people achieve democracy. My little sacrifice seems insignificant.``
My immediate thought was `What if Lafayette, von Steuben, Pulaski, and the French, had not assisted us in the Revolutionary War?’ What if they had followed the Dimocrat strategy for building a democracy?
The motives of these people during the Revolutionary War are not important. They were there to help and they sacrificed.
The Dimocrats seem to have cut the word sacrifice out of their dictionary along with the words patriotism and victory. Hopefully, they will not cut the money.
One has to question where the spirit of pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty has gone? Sadly, it has died with the man.
Our troops volunteered for service and know the stakes. They have not forgotten that freedom is not free.
Is Iraq perfect? NO! But it is a start. The rough edges of the beginning of our country have been smoothed away by the passage of time. Anyone reading about our early history has to wonder how we made it.
The Dimocrats have not found anything worth fighting for lately. Oops, I forgot they will fight for killing babies, giving privileges to people based on their skin color, and to stop you from expressing your first amendment right of religion and your second amendment rights.
The Dimocratic spirit is best characterized by the statement of John Stuart Mill:
`War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.`
Obviously, we have those better men today serving in Iraq
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