While the Berkeley City Council misfits leer and gibber, another Marine has walked into the clearing at the end of the path – PFC Ray Jacobs, one of the Marines who raised the original flag that flew atop Suribachi at Iwo Jima.
We are diminished.
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Ave atque valeBy lex, on January 31st, 2008
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Targets of Opportunityblog advertising is good for you Credo"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones "Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra" "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche "A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke “You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier "Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas "Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex Amazon AssociateFor the Effort!Winnar! Subscribe CategoriesPagesTagsacademy
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Semper Fi, PFC Jacobs. I hope your buddies met you in the clearing and your passage was a gentle one.
He is the infinite gainer, and with his friends again.
Yes, we are diminished. However, we are blessed that he lived.
Ave atque vale… indeed…Best
Can’t help but think of my uncle Alex, another Marine PFC, with those other brave and noble souls like PFC Jacobs, every time I am reminded of That Island Battle. Rest in Peace.
And the only thing the MSM can talk about this morning is Eddie Adams’ 1968 photograph of the shooting of a VC infiltrator in Saigon by then South Vietnamese National Police Chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan. Amazing! What would I have done if I’d been in General Loan’s shoes? I’d have shot the b**** too.
We stand in awed wonder at the sacrifices others have made for us. We can only work hard to make sure that their efforts continue to be acknowledged and that we ourselves make some small effort to pass along a country that is free.
Thank you Mr. Jacobs. Rest now.