The Nations Tavern: Thank You Pfc. Ross A. McGinnis

From the Great Chesty

"Our country wont go on forever, if we stay soft as we are now. There won't be any AMERICA because some foreign soldiery will invade us and take our women and breed a hardier race!"

"Paper work will ruin any military force"

"You don't hurt'em if you don't hit 'em"

Chesty on the other forces:

When an Army captain asked him for the direction of the line of retreat, Chesty turned to his tank commander, gave him the Army position and orderd: "If they start to pull back from that line, even one foot, I want you to open fire on them" Turning back to the captain he replied "does that answer your question? We are here to fight." At Koto-ri Korea

"The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war"

In a letter to his wife while in Korea

When the Marines were cut off behind enemy lines and the Army had written the 1st Marine Division off as being lost because they were surrounded by 22 enemy divisions. The Marines made it out inflicting the highest casualty ratio on and enemy in history and destroying 7 entire enemy divisions in the process.

An enemy division is 16500+men while a Marine Division is 12500 men.

When a Journalist asked him about being surrounded by 22 enemy divisions. Chesty replied.

"They are a damn site better than the U.S. Army, at least we know they will be there in the morning"

"They are in front of us , behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29:1. They can't get away now!"

"there are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go"

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Thank You Pfc. Ross A. McGinnis

http://www.medalofhonor.com/index.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/washington/03medal.html

This week the Medal of Honor was awarded to Pfc Ross A. McGinnis
what an amazing young man
the story of Pfc McGinnis is not uncommon in the line of medal of honor holders but it is highly uncommon in people today
read his story read how he knowingly sacrifised himself to save his brothers and maybe when your bitching about the price of fuel and everything else in this world kiss your kids goodnight under the blanket of safty that Pfc McGinnis provided for you and just think of his mother and fathers sacrifice and maybe befor your head hits the pillow tonight pray for his 4 brothers in arms that were saved to fight another day.