[Diy_efi] American Hero

[b burns]

mr. lingle i believe you have shown who the dum pharke
is.   the best to capt.chontosh and his troops.
--- Greg Hermann <bearbvd at mindspring.com> 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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