[Diy_efi] American Hero__HEY MODERATOR?

Sun Apr 17 02:51:32 UTC 2005

At 10:44 PM 4/16/05, Logan Lingle wrote:
>Sorry, the thing popped up in my email and I just replied to it.
>
>I will point out, however..  it didn't originate with me.
>
>I just joined this list in preperation for my PIC based FI system.  My
>sole reason for being here.

NOT the way to get any answers from any of those here who know much. They
all seem to have a clue how to think, and it generally doesn't result in an
opinion of folks with your 'world view' that is at ALL conducive to sharing
tech expertise. You might as well sign back off now and fuhgeddaboubit.
>
>
>
>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.
>>
>>
>> ----- 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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