[Diy_efi] American Hero
Greg Hermann
bearbvd
Sun Apr 17 02:31:57 UTC 2005
At 10:19 PM 4/16/05, Logan Lingle wrote:
Well, go ahead and prove what a dumb pharke you are. Then, move to Canaduh.
Don't like your smell here !
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>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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>I'm certainly not proud.. we shouldn't be there in the first place. <br>
><br>
>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. <br>
><br>
>I am not proud of our actions in Iraq at all. IMNSHO, if you had any
>sense, you wouldn't be either. <br>
><br>
>WTF? I thought this was a Fuel Injection list, anyway.. ?<br>
><br>
><br>
>Randy Bailey wrote:
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> <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#010101" face="Times New Roman"
> size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(1, 1, 1);">I know
>this is not FI related, but men
>like this make me proud!!!!</span></font></p>
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> <p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#010101" face="Times New Roman"
> size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(1, 1, 1);">Maybe
>you'd like to hear about a real
>American, somebody who honored the uniform he wears.<br>
>Meet Brian Chontosh.<br>
> </span></font><font color="#010101"><span style="color: rgb(1, 1,
>1);">Churchville-Chili</span></font><font
> color="#010101"><span style="color: rgb(1, 1, 1);"> </span></font><font
> color="#010101"><span style="color: rgb(1, 1, 1);">Central</span></font><font
> color="#010101"><span style="color: rgb(1, 1, 1);"> </span></font><font
> color="#010101"><span style="color: rgb(1, 1, 1);">School</span></font><font
> color="#010101"><span style="color: rgb(1, 1, 1);"> class of 1991.
>Proud graduate of
>the Rochester Institute of Technology. Husband and about-to-be father.
>First lieutenant</span></font><font back="#ffffff" family="SANSSERIF"
> ptsize="12" color="blue" face="Arial"><span
> style="background: white none repeat scroll 0%; font-family: Arial;
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>initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">
>(now Captain) </span></font><font back="#ffffff" family="SANSSERIF"
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> style="background: white none repeat scroll 0%; font-family: Arial;
>color: rgb(1, 1, 1); -moz-background-clip: initial;
>-moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy:
>initial;">in
>the United States Marine Corps.<br>
>And a genuine hero.<br>
>The secretary of the Navy said so yesterday.<br>
>At 29 Palms in California Brian Chontosh was presented with the Navy
>Cross, the second highest award for combat bravery the
></span></font><font
> color="#010101" face="Arial"><span
> style="background: white none repeat scroll 0%; font-family: Arial;
>color: rgb(1, 1, 1); -moz-background-clip: initial;
>-moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy:
>initial;">United
>States</span></font><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span
> style="background: white none repeat scroll 0%; font-family: Arial;
>color: rgb(1, 1, 1); -moz-background-clip: initial;
>-moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">
>can
>bestow.<br>
>That's a big deal.<br>
>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.<br>
>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.<br>
> <br>
>We get a non-stop feed of gloom and doom.<br>
>But we don't hear about the heroes.<br>
>The incredibly brave GIs who honorably do their duty. The ones our
>grandparents would have carried on their shoulders down
></span></font><font
> color="#010101" face="Arial"><span
> style="background: white none repeat scroll 0%; font-family: Arial;
>color: rgb(1, 1, 1); -moz-background-clip: initial;
>-moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy:
>initial;">Fifth
>Avenue</span></font><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span
> style="background: white none repeat scroll 0%; font-family: Arial;
>color: rgb(1, 1, 1); -moz-background-clip: initial;
>-moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy:
>initial;">.<br>
>The ones we completely ignore.<br>
>Like Brian Chontosh.<br>
> <br>
>It was a year ago on the march into </span></font><font
> color="#010101" face="Arial"><span
> style="background: white none repeat scroll 0%; font-family: Arial;
>color: rgb(1, 1, 1); -moz-background-clip: initial;
>-moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy:
>initial;">Baghdad</span></font><font
> color="#010101" face="Arial"><span
> style="background: white none repeat scroll 0%; font-family: Arial;
>color: rgb(1, 1, 1); -moz-background-clip: initial;
>-moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy:
>initial;">.
>Brian Chontosh was a platoon leader rolling up Highway 1 in
>a humvee.<br>
>When all hell broke loose.<br>
>Ambush city.<br>
>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.<br>
>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.<br>
>It was fish in a barrel and the Marines were the fish.<br>
> <br>
> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">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.<br>
>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.<br>
>And he ran down the trench.<br>
>With its mortars and riflemen, machineguns and grenadiers.<br>
>And he killed them all.<br>
>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.<br>
> </span></b><br>
> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">At one point he even fired a
>discarded
>Iraqi RPG into an enemy cluster, sending attackers flying with its
>grenade explosion.<br>
>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.<br>
>But that's probably not how he would tell it.<br>
>He would probably merely say that his Marines were in trouble, and he
>got
>them out of trouble. Hoo-ah, and drive on.</span></b><br>
> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
> </span></b>"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."<br>
> <br>
>That's what the citation says.<br>
>And that's what nobody will hear.<br>
>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.<br>
>But I guess it doesn't matter.<br>
>We're going to turn out all right.<br>
>As long as men like Brian Chontosh wear our uniform.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
>If you are as proud of this Marine as I am, then send this to EVERYONE
>YOU KNOW
>!!</span></font></p>
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> <br>
>Jack<br>
>70 Half-Cab<br>
> </span></font>Northeast Oregon<br>
> <br>
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> style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks,</span></font></p>
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> style="font-size: 12pt;">Randy </span></font></p>
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