[Diy_efi] American Hero__HEY MODERATOR?

Sun Apr 17 02:46:50 UTC 2005

At 9:25 PM 4/16/05, Marc Reviel wrote:
>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.

Yeah, Lingleberry would make a GREAT 'exit now' candidate, Steve !!

Greg
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>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
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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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