[Diy_efi] American Hero

Fri Apr 15 19:35:08 UTC 2005

Ernest,

If the objective was to get oil, all they had to do was send Saddam a check. 
He would have sent us all the oil we wanted.

Bobby

On 4/15/05, Ernest Buckler <ebuckler at icehouse.net> wrote:
> 
> *Randy,*
> *Y'know, as ex-military myself, I support our troops. BUT I sure do 
> despise the greed & stupidity that sent them to Iraq in the first place. 
> Almost NONE of the Bush administration has ANY combat time, & most of them 
> avoided service altogether. They are playing war-games from behind their 
> desks. And if we invaded to steal their oil, look at the gas prices to see 
> how good a job they are doing. They are not even using Iraqi oil revenues 
> (which by all the rules of war that I am familiar with, belong to us now) to 
> pay for the war - WE are still paying for it with a national debt that can 
> ONLY be paid by massive devaluation of the dollar - so we get to pay for it 
> several times over with our labor AND the lives of our sons, daughters, 
> grandsons and granddaughters. Not to mention a massive tax bill for VA 
> medical care for the huge numbers of wounded, demented, and poisoned 
> (DU/depleted uranium, hundreds of tons now dust everywhere) troops that do 
> come home to breed malformed babies. (Last I heard, the VA said it was like 
> 58% of all troops returned needing long-term care of one kind or another.) 
> *
> ** 
> *Fun stuff, huh? All just so we get to read about the occasional berserker 
> hero.*
> ** 
> *Yours for actually recognizing & doing something about how America is 
> being deceived/screwed by a gang of thugs who have stolen three elections in 
> order to get rich and rule the world,*
> *Ernest Buckler*
> ** 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> *From:* Randy Bailey <randy_bsmt at bellsouth.net> 
> *To:* diy_efi at diy-efi.org 
> *Sent:* Friday, April 15, 2005 7:17 AM
> *Subject:* [Diy_efi] American Hero
> 
>  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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