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Watch Video: Watch Video: Prayer For our Military"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands.Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. Amen." Here's how some of our children slept. (Click on photo for larger view.)
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Please help support our troops overseas. Send your gifts of Copenhagen, tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, or just your well wishes to any of these fine boys. They will share with others in need of a "little bit of home" right now.
March 9, 2008
Photo of GySgt Edwardo Espinal, Maj Patrick Tucker, and myself Maj Nate Mentink. We are currently deployed, and are trying to find folks who would send cigars to be shared with the Marines here in Al Taqaddum Iraq over the holidays.
Hello,
We are a team of Soldiers deployed in Northern Iraq. We have access to the PX (Post Exchange, the government store), but it is very difficult to get cigars, Cope long cut, Skoal long cut or any long cut smokeless tobacco here. We would appreciate any help you could provide.
Hello Smoker's Club, love the website.
I am currently deployed to Afghanistan with my battalion, consisting of Soldiers, Airmen, and Marines.
A few of my troops and I are avid cigar smokers and enthusiasts, whenever we can get one. However, we find it extremely difficult to get cigars here in such a remote and austere environment.
Hello,
I think this is great, you don't know how much this means to them over there that someone really is taking time to support them.
I can't thank you enough for all your help. And I know these boys will really appreciate it.
Gary Bourland "Thanks for all your support from everyone here. We just arrived and it's going to be a long time before we see home."
SSG Chris Jacobs
OUR Crew of the USS Cape St. George CG-71 "We have no access to chewing tobacco onboard our ship, due to our supply divison being involved with backorders for the soldiers in Iraq."
STG2(SW) David Sills
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Wish you were hereFor all the free people that still protestyou're welcome, we protect you, and your protected by the best. Your voice is strong and loud but who will fight for you no one standing in your crowd. We are fathers, brothers and sons, wearing the boots and carrying the guns. We are the ones that leave all we own, to make sure future is carved in stone. We are the ones who fight and die, we might not be able to save the world, well, at least we try. We walked the paths to where we are at, and we want no choice other than that. so when you rally you'r group to complain, take a good look in the back of you'r brain. In order for that flag you love to fly, wars must be fought and young men must die. We came here to fight for the ones we hold dear, if thats not respected, we would rather stay here. So please stop yelling and put down your signs, and pray for those behind enemy lines. When the conflict is over and all is well, be thankful that we chose to go through hell. Corporal Joshua Miles and all the boys from 3rd. Battalion, 2nd Marines, Kuwait. During the American Revolution, George Washington sought money and supplies for his troops. He reportedly once wrote to the Continental Congress, "If you can't send money, send tobacco". Prayer for these timesIt's the soldier not the reporter who gives you the freedom of the press.It's the soldier not the poet who gives you the freedom of speech. It's the soldier not the campus organizer who allows you to demonstrate. It's the soldier who salutes the flag, serves the flag, whose coffin is draped with the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag!!! "Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need." Slide movie for those who defend our country. God bless our military men and women. (Slow loading) Brian Chontosh: A real American hero. Alex Hepler USMC '79-'99: Kingston, WA |
The average age of the military man is 19 years.He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country.He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father's; but he has never collected unemployment either. He's a recent High School graduate; he was probably an average student, pursued some form of sport activities, drives a ten year old jalopy, and has a steady girlfriend that either broke up with him when he left, or swears to be waiting when he returns from half a world away. He listens to rock and roll or hip-hop or rap or jazz or swing and 155mm Howitzers. He is 10 or 15 pounds lighter now than when he was at home because he is working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk. He has trouble spelling, thus letter writing is a pain for him, but he can field strip a rifle in 30 seconds and reassemble it in less time in the dark. He can recite to you the nomenclature of a machine gun or grenade launcher and use either one effectively if he must. He digs foxholes and latrines and can apply first aid like a professional. He can march until he is told to stop or stop until he is told to march. He obeys orders instantly and without hesitation, but he is not without spirit or individual dignity. He is self-sufficient. He has two sets of fatigues: he washes one and wears the other. He keeps his canteens full and his feet dry. He sometimes forgets to brush his teeth, but never to clean his rifle. He can cook his own meals, mend his own clothes, and fix his own hurts. If you're thirsty, he'll share his water with you; if you are hungry, his food. He'll even split his ammunition with you in the midst of battle when you run low. He has learned to use his hands like weapons and weapons like they were his hands. He can save your life - or take it, because that is his job. He will often do twice the work of a civilian, draw half the pay and still find ironic humor in it all. He has seen more suffering and death then he should have in his short lifetime. He has stood atop mountains of dead bodies, and helped to create them. He has wept in public and in private, for friends who have fallen in combat and is unashamed. He feels every note of the National Anthem vibrate through his body while at rigid attention, while tempering the burning desire to 'square-away' those around him who haven't bothered to stand, remove their hat, or even stop talking. In an odd twist, day in and day out, far from home, he defends their right to be disrespectful. Just as did his Father, Grandfather, and Great-grandfather, he is paying the price for our freedom. Beardless or not, he is not a boy. He is the American Fighting Man that has kept this country free for over 200 years. He has asked nothing in return, except our friendship and understanding. Remember him, always, for he has earned our respect and admiration with his blood.
THE MARINE
A SOLDIER'S STORY As reported by Brian Kilmeade on Fox News, PFC Joshua Sparling was wounded in Iraq on November 20th. He was flown to Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington for surgery. While there, he opened a card which appeared, on the surface, to be a patriotic "get well soon" note from a kid. Here's what the card actually read on the inside: Dear, Soldier Have a great time into he war and have a great time dieing in the war from Solider Miguel P.S. DIE. With grammar like that, they author probably qualifies to be a history teacher at Carson High School, but that's another matter altogether. Kilmeade notes that despite the pain PFC Sparling is in, he insists on leaving the card up on his hospital wall where everyone can see it. "He, by the way, is proud of his service, misses his buddies and wants to go back and fight," reports Kilmeade, who correctly concludes that "this sadist (whoever wrote the card) does not represent the American public." Kilmeade suggests that folks send a real "get well" or holiday card to Joshua at: Joshua Sparling C/O Walter Reed Army Medical Center 6900 Georgia Avenue NW Washington, DC 20307-5001 Mine is already in the mail. Hope yours will join it. Chuck Muth Citizen Outreach http://www.chuckmuth.com
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