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March 27, 2003

Wounded troops tell their stories

The military is holding press conferences with some wounded Marines and Army personnel in Germany. These guys are the best. They're telling their stories with detail, showing little fear, perhaps some nervousness because of the forum. The one SGT from Long Island (Go Long Island) commented that it wasn't the firefight that bothered him, it was just getting shot that "sucked."

Posted By Joe (Attaboy) at March 27, 2003 06:26 AM | TrackBack

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I put the whole quote in my posting below. "Getting shot at was not that bad, just the getting shot part sucked"

Posted by: mapchic at March 27, 2003 06:29 AM

Excellent, it was made the samizdata slogan of the day.

Posted by: gabriel syme at March 27, 2003 06:31 AM

mapchic: saw that, thanks. it's early and I'm only on coffee #2. ;-)

Posted by: Joe Dougherty at March 27, 2003 06:46 AM

WOW... where do we find men such as these? And we've got hundreds of thousands of them... What a country we are all blessed to live in.

Posted by: Mark Casper at March 27, 2003 06:48 AM

Heh... these arn't even our best guys. These are the slow ones :)

- Bill

Posted by: Bill at March 27, 2003 07:06 AM

Hey... now we have some real heroes.

(and then I wanted to say 'goodbye Hollywood' but don't really want anyone there - h'wood - to get the idea that 'we the people' really care about them... but none of 'them' will ever measure up to our men in combat)

Posted by: bill at March 27, 2003 10:26 AM