[Diy_efi] American Hero

[Logan Lingle]

I'm certainly not proud.. we shouldn't be there in the first place.

The WMD was a joke, the Terror links were a joke, Condi and her 
"Aluminum Tube" are and were a joke, Abu Griab is a sick joke, Americans 
being held forever, on order of the king is an unconstitutional joke, 
Gitmo is a pitiful joke, the 9 billion they've lost there is a galactic 
joke, and our President is a pathetic, chimp faced, Skull & Bones, 
Neo-Conservative joke who drank his way through college.

I am not proud of our actions in Iraq at all. IMNSHO, if you had any 
sense, you wouldn't be either.

WTF? I thought this was a Fuel Injection list, anyway.. ?


Randy Bailey wrote:

> I know this is not FI related, but men like this make me proud!!!!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> "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."
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> 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.
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> If you are as proud of this Marine as I am, then send this to EVERYONE 
> YOU KNOW !!
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> Jack
> 70 Half-Cab
> Northeast Oregon
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> Thanks,
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> Randy
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