[Diy_efi] American Hero

Logan Lingle llingle
Sun Apr 17 02:46:09 UTC 2005


And likewise, perhaps you belong in Iraq..

:)


Greg Hermann wrote:

>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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>>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"
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>>(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
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>>States</span></font><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span
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>>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;
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>>-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>
>> <p class="MsoAutoSig"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
>>style="font-size: 12pt;">Randy </span></font></p>
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