Salute to the fallen Warfighters in Chattanooga...

[1978 NYB]

 

[Ironwolf]

 

[Ironwolf]

I ran across this on Facebook and thought it appropriate to share with everyone.
I believe that it does indeed express how every single United States Marine feels right now.
I also believe it is how many of us have felt for some time now.





Congratulations, ISIS.



You wanted attention, and yesterday, you got it. Only, you chose the wrong people to seek that attention from.



You did not get the attention of our weak President. He tweeted his support for your medieval holiday following your cowardly attack. You did not get the attention of our useless and corrupt Congress. They were too busy lining their pockets.
When you attacked those four Marines, you got the attention of every one of our 186,800 active duty Marines, along with every Marine who ever served.



You just stirred up hate, discontent, and malice within a group of people who relish the idea of engaging the enemy.



There is something you obviously don’t yet know about Marines…
The brotherhood we share is stronger than the challenges we face, the weapons we master, or the enemies we destroy.



You will learn that soon though.



You attacked a group of men who bond over the smell of gunpowder and misery—and enjoy it. You didn’t attack America’s leaders, you attacked America’s Marines, and that is a battle you are not prepared for.



You see, we won’t play by the rules you’re accustomed to seeing. When you play in our backyard, we don’t have to answer to any chain of command. We will not follow ridiculous ROEs crafted by a spineless bureaucrat to appease some goat herding tribal leader. And we won’t be wearing uniforms so that you can easily ambush us.



Nope. None of that ****.



When you think you’re walking into a target-rich environment, you’re really walking into an ambush.



That pudgy, middle-aged guy wearing khakis in the mall, who unbeknownst to you, is a former 0311 and armed, will dump your sorry *** before you have a chance to scream “allah snackbar.” And that soccer mom pushing a stroller, she’s got a Glock and will happily leave you gasping in a pool of your own blood before she lets you hurt her children.



We are here and we still have the training and experience to wage war, whether here or abroad. And wage war we will. Every one of us are willing to fight and die to protect our Marine Corps brothers and sisters, our families and friends, and our way of life.



And we will win, because while you fight to destroy what you hate, we fight to protect what we love.
Semper Fi!

 

[polara66hardtop]

I would have loved to be on that street corner when he stopped, with my FAL. As would many here.
Americans everywhere are angry today.

 

[1978 NYB]

Roger that!

 

[polara66hardtop]

The best marine I know is my Uncle, 93 years old, and was Infantry, landing on Iwo Jima and Okinawa. He is still alive today. Then there was was my Sister-in-laws brother. He was was sent to Vietnam in 1965. First marine Division I believe. He fought with World War II equipment, and and ate C rations dated 1945. He was Shot in the ninth Month, and was flown back to the U.S. with Norma Raye and Bob Hope on a medi-vac DC-9. Tough men.

These Marines deserve any and all,,,,,,,,,that we can give them.

 

[furyus 67]

Payers for the soldiers and their families!! May my.45 find one of these pukes one day!

 

[Ironwolf]

WOW .. a letter from a Chattanoogan soldiers daughter!


Dear Mr. President,

Where are you? As I sit here at 4:30 in the morning with my seven year old daughter who hasn't slept since our City was attacked by a terrorist who grew up here and called it "Home" for 24 years of his Muslim life..

Where were you? When the family of our five brave men who lost their lives that day were informed of the dreadful news, did they receive a call from you, our concerned, caring, president? I beg to differ. Instead you gave a nine minute very insincere apology about what occurred in Chattanooga Tennessee. From my heart Mr. President, as a Native Chattanoogan you have no right to even utter the words of my hometown.

When the 9 Church members were killed in Charleston, why you made no hesitation to scurry there, even rush behind a pulpit even preach a funeral! Then you took it upon yourself to sing the old hymn "Amazing Grace" trying so hard to bring God's spirit into that place and thru the TV screen.

Let me be the first poor single mother to tell you Mr. President you didn't fool me. There was no God in your "Presentation", no God in that "Speech" that your overpaid blind to your B.S. Muslim Personal Assistant prepared for you. No no no Mr. President, you see We The People are fed up with you. Instead of being an Honorable President, and ordering ALL flags at half mass, you didn't order any.

Instead of trying to find out what this idiot had been doing to plan this attack all these months, you go on VACATION. WE SEE where you priorities lie, we see that you don't care these men protected your family as well. Your 'white' house you live in is surrounded by Secret Service men, all armed. Let's take their guns away, like our service men and women and see how many days you call in sick.

Mr. President..... Where will you be, during the funerals of our five fallen men??? From my heart I say this to you, STAY AWAY, we don't need you now. HERE IN THE GREAT CITY AND STATE OF CHATTANOOGA TENNESSEE WE DON'T LIKE COWARDS. WE ARE A COMMUNITY OF STRENGTH, SPIRIT, AND LOVE. HEROES ARE BORN AND RAISED HERE AND WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN!

Signed,
The Daughter of A Soldier

 

[1978 NYB]