{"id":18745,"date":"2010-04-22T11:55:34","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18745"},"modified":"2010-04-22T12:29:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T17:29:56","slug":"what-separates-us-from-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18745","title":{"rendered":"What separates us from them…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stolen (?) from The Burn Pit <\/a>because I think everyone should see this.<\/p>\n

\"mohammed\"<\/p>\n

Meet Mohammed<\/p>\n

Every once in a while some jackass<\/del> person will go off and apologize to another country over something that America is alleged to have perpetrated. The one that made me the maddest was “War-Resister” Matthis Chiroux who apologized to an Afghan Peace Activist saying<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[I]n 2005, for a brief time, I helped occupy Malalai\u2019s country, and it was wrong. It was my mistake. I should not have been there. I should not have been supporting this oppression of her people. Today I want to look Malalai in the eye, and I want to tell you, Malalai, how sorry I am for the violence that my Army has done to your people, to your country. I want to apologize to you for the role that I played in it. I was wrong, and I will show you that my country and the rest of the world can come to a place where they can admit wrong, apologize, and offer some sort of reconciliation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What really made this apology so asinine is that Matthis spent a grand total of 6 days in Afghanistan, and never left Bagram Air Base. When I was in theater, I watched guys in my unit ask for things from home not for themselves, but for the children and the people of Afghanistan who needed the small things: some soap, comic books and sharpies.<\/p>\n

I served over there with fellow Milblogger The Sniper<\/a>. (His site is mildly unsafe for work.) He’s my friend, he’s my comrade in arms, and he made a picture that sums up EVERYTHING that is wrong with folks like Matthis who deign to apologize on our behalf. They say that a picture is worth 1,000 words, well, this is the Encyclopedia Britanica of pictures.<\/p>\n

\"Honor\"<\/p>\n

It is something I think a lot about. Putting aside the moral and legal validity of the conflicts we find ourselves in, what separates us from them?<\/p>\n

I’ll answer that, THIS is what does<\/a>:<\/p>\n

LANSING, Mich. -A 13-year-old Iraqi boy brought to Michigan a year ago by a National Guardsman so he could get plastic surgery to repair scars from a house fire no longer is shy about pulling off his beloved Detroit Tigers baseball cap.<\/p>\n

Black, glossy hair now grows where only scar tissue was before. And Mohammed’s left hand and wrist \u2014 deformed in the fire when he was 2 \u2014 now can adeptly field baseballs.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Mohammed will head back to Iraq with Army National Guard Major David Howell, who brought the shy, slender boy to mid-Michigan last April for the life-changing surgery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I could waste your time and write up a bunch of stuff on this, but as is my custom, why write when I have a perfectly fine video to share? [Consider this a mild hankey warning.]<\/p>\n

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And so, Mohammed is going home. At first I felt sad that he was returning, since he seems so happy here. But his family is there, and that is his home. It’s men like Major David Howell who make me feel so humble that I was granted the honor of serving in your United States Army.<\/p>\n

I pray that the future of Iraq is entrusted to the children and young men like Mohammed who were touched by men and women like Major Howell who awake each day in theater and strive to be the very public, beneficent face of America. Acts like this can have repercussions just as long-lasting as when bad things happen. I wish we could see more stories like this.<\/p>\n

I’ve always reserved for Michigan State a hostility that is only surpassed by the loathesome, degenerate and perfidious New York Yankees. Maybe it is time to reevaluate that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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