[Diy_efi] American Hero__HEY MODERATOR?

[Marc Reviel]

Moderator, where are you??? Why does this crap continue?  Please bar the 
next person(s) who makes with any kind of political comment, especially this 
thread.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Logan Lingle" <llingle at seidata.com>
To: <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Diy_efi] American Hero


> 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!!!!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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