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April 19, 2004
Tough Chicken
A USMC 1st Sgt. e-mails from the front lines:
I have just a few minutes to write before I must go back to my boys in Fallujah. It is going on week 2 of operation "Vigilant Resolve"..Who thinks of these names anyway?...Give this job to a LCPL and he will really name this operation...Anyway, Sad to say **** */* has over 23 wounded and 2 KIA's....This place is really nasty, but as always, my men are motivated and ready to carry on the next order. We hope it's to go into the heart of the city and erase most of the cancer that is left. I'm really over-whelmed to have so many folks email me with good thoughts and prayers...It is fitting that my men will emulate a phrase in the first verse of the Marines' Hymn.....FIRST TO FIGHT FOR RIGHT AND FREEDOM....We will never forget why we are here, and the loved ones back home who are living a free and healthy life..Key word....FREEDOM....Also, I would like to share a funny story that occurred...A 500lb bomb was delivered about 100 meters from our post and it rocked us but what was funny was there was this white chicken that was launched in this explosion...The chicken flew about 100 meters and then landed...The %$# thing got up fluffed his feathers and ran off...Tough Chicken......Love to all...
Posted by Deb at April 19, 2004 02:39 PM