[Diy_efi] American Hero

[Bobby Yates Emory]

philo, Mike, and Michael,

Too bad you can't be proud of our heros. I am.

Bobby

On 4/15/05, philo at wayfarer1.com <philo at wayfarer1.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> You said it first it is not FI, so please refrain from sending spam on
> this forum.
> 
> I know this is not FI related, but men like this make me proud!!!!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Maybe you'd like to hear about a real American, somebody who honored the
> > uniform he wears.
> > Meet Brian Chontosh.
> > Churchville-Chili Central School class of 1991. Proud graduate of the
> > Rochester Institute of Technology. Husband and about-to-be father. First
> > lieutenant (now Captain) in the United States Marine Corps.
> > And a genuine hero.
> > The secretary of the Navy said so yesterday.
> > At 29 Palms in California Brian Chontosh was presented with the Navy
> > Cross,
> > the second highest award for combat bravery the United States can 
> bestow.
> > That's a big deal.
> > But you won't see it on the network news tonight, and all you read in
> > Brian's hometown newspaper was two paragraphs of nothing. The odd fact
> > about the American media in this war is that it's not covering the
> > American
> > military. The most plugged-in nation in the world is receiving virtually
> > no
> > true information about what its warriors are doing.
> > Oh, sure, there's a body count. We know how many Americans have fallen.
> > And
> > we see those same casket pictures day in and day out. And we're almost 
> on
> > a
> > first-name basis with the jerks who abused the Iraqi prisoners. And we
> > know all about improvised explosive devices and how we lost Fallujah and
> > what Arab public-opinion polls say about us and how the world hates us.
> >
> > We get a non-stop feed of gloom and doom.
> > But we don't hear about the heroes.
> > The incredibly brave GIs who honorably do their duty. The ones our
> > grandparents would have carried on their shoulders down Fifth Avenue.
> > The ones we completely ignore.
> > Like Brian Chontosh.
> >
> > It was a year ago on the march into Baghdad. Brian Chontosh was a 
> platoon
> > leader rolling up Highway 1 in a humvee.
> > When all hell broke loose.
> > Ambush city.
> > The young Marines were being cut to ribbons. Mortars, machine guns,
> > rocket
> > propelled grenades. And the kid out of Churchville was in charge. It was
> > do
> > or die and it was up to him.
> > So he moved to the side of his column, looking for a way to lead his men
> > to
> > safety. As he tried to poke a hole through the Iraqi line his humvee 
> came
> > under direct enemy machine gun fire.
> > It was fish in a barrel and the Marines were the fish.
> >
> > And Brian Chontosh gave the order to attack. He told his driver to floor
> > the humvee directly at the machine gun emplacement that was firing at
> > them.
> > And he had the guy on top with the .50 cal unload on them.
> > Within moments there were Iraqis slumped across the machine gun and
> > Chontosh was still advancing, ordering his driver now to take the humvee
> > directly into the Iraqi trench that was attacking his Marines. Over into
> > the battlement the humvee went and out the door Brian Chontosh bailed,
> > carrying an M16 and a Beretta and 228 years of Marine Corps pride.
> > And he ran down the trench.
> > With its mortars and riflemen, machineguns and grenadiers.
> > And he killed them all.
> > He fought with the M16 until it was out of ammo. Then he fought with the
> > Beretta until it was out of ammo. Then he picked up a dead man's AK47 
> and
> > fought with that until it was out of ammo. Then he picked up another 
> dead
> > man's AK47 and fought with that until it was out of ammo.
> >
> > At one point he even fired a discarded Iraqi RPG into an enemy cluster,
> > sending attackers flying with its grenade explosion.
> > When he was done Brian Chontosh had cleared 200 yards of entrenched
> > Iraqis
> > from his platoon's flank. He had killed more than 20 and wounded at 
> least
> > as many more.
> > But that's probably not how he would tell it.
> > He would probably merely say that his Marines were in trouble, and he 
> got
> > them out of trouble. Hoo-ah, and drive on.
> >
> > "By his outstanding display of decisive leadership, unlimited courage in
> > the face of heavy enemy fire, and utmost devotion to duty, 1st Lt.
> > Chontosh
> > reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of
> > the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service."
> >
> > That's what the citation says.
> > And that's what nobody will hear.
> > That's what doesn't seem to be making the evening news. Accounts of
> > American valor are dismissed by the press as propaganda, yet accounts of
> > American difficulties are heralded as objectivity. It makes you wonder 
> if
> > the role of the media is to inform or to depress - to report or to
> > deride.
> > To tell the truth, or to feed us lies.
> > But I guess it doesn't matter.
> > We're going to turn out all right.
> > As long as men like Brian Chontosh wear our uniform.
> >
> >
> >
> > If you are as proud of this Marine as I am, then send this to EVERYONE 
> YOU
> > KNOW !!
> >
> >
> >
> > Jack
> > 70 Half-Cab
> > Northeast Oregon
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Randy
> >
> >
> >
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Toward freedom,

Bobby Yates Emory
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