They Are All Heroes to Me – Update Below the Fold
Keith_Indy on Mar 22 2007 at 1:38 pm | Filed under: Keith's Page, Military Matters
It is often heartening to hear stories of why people join the military. Some people do it because they have few options, but many people do it because they want to serve this country. And some few give up more lucrative careers to do it.
They are asked to make such great sacrifices and put up with a great deal of suffering, in order to keep us and others safe. It really puts things in perspective during my hour commute to think of what the soldiers and Marines in Iraq, Afghanistan, and everywhere else they are stationed have to put up with on a daily basis.
As long as they serve honorably, they are all heroes to me.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6592988?MSNHPHCP>1=9232
A former NFL player who joined the Marines and was motivated by college roommate Pat Tillman, who died in Afghanistan, was heading for the war in Iraq Tuesday night.
Lance Cpl. Jeremy Staat, a former defensive lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers and St. Louis Rams who had been playing Arena Football, was one of 300 Marines in the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment being deployed from Kaneohe Bay. The unit is expected to be in Iraq for seven months.
“The way I look at it, we’re spreading freedom, and you have to support the troops and you have to support the war,” Staat, 29, told KITV in Honolulu on Tuesday as he prepared to leave from Hawaii. “You can’t just tell some Marine who just lost his buddy that we supported you but not the war, because in that case you’re basically saying that Marine, his buddy, just died for nothing. We’re one team.”
Update:
Here’s another who’s enlisting… Already some are making a big stink that he’s doing it for political reasons. BDS at its worst.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3251.html
Sphere: Related ContentGeorge P. Bush, a nephew of President Bush who was a hit on the campaign trail, has been accepted in the Navy Reserve as an intelligence officer and has begun the process of being commissioned for eight years of service.
Bush, 30, said in a telephone interview from his office at a real estate development firm in Fort Worth, Texas, that he was moved to join the service in part when he attended the rainy commissioning in October of the aircraft carrier named for his grandfather — the USS George H.W. Bush.
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