The Nations Tavern: Now my ?

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"

Monday, August 11, 2008

Now my ?

What does God want us to do?
This is driveing me nuts. The current going ons in Georgia and the hole happenings of China and with the recent pass port denial of Darfur suporter. And the bringing up of Sudan war lord killer ass hole ^$%#%$# fleeing to china to avoid his nous from the war court.
I got to ask what does God realy want from us. Are we to spend are time fighting and suporting these far off nations and trying to fix there problems. I recently said on the for the people chat that i hope Blackwater gets a contract to go to Georgia because i will except it. but is that the place for me. Would not God be more happy if i had gone down to Ogden and fixed the Ladys sprinkler. Or maybe even not have watched that dirty bad movie the other night.
I have a great love for Georgia and that area of the world
The day we started bombing Afgahnistain i was playing pool in a refugee camp with a 7 year old girl )from Afgahnistain ( she had the darkest eyes you would lose yourself in because the contained more sadness that an adult who had lived 9 lives would not have) The Kurdish boys who were refugees as well from Iraq were making fun of her and telling me i should be mad at her because of were she was from ' she was the ones who bombed my country " little did they know were i would be 2 years later. On the same note 1 year prior to that i had met my best friend from Kurdistan and thought to myself as i looked over the personal pictures of his intir villiage being gased by chemical ali. That i could take my fire team in and take out this kind of crap one fire team why do we not do it?
But as i think about this on what do we do? I ask is any of this more important then me takeing time to play with my boy? Am i not sinning a greater sin by denying him time with me why i look up info on these happenings and bitch about the no responce on my blogg
What should i do? My time away from my family while fighting a war to free opressed people is that realy the best thing that i should be doing or should i be teaching my son how to become a good man by example by takeing care of the people around us? I think the scripturs teach that that is by far a fare more important priority!!!!
What are your thoughts i would love to hear more?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: I believe that our Maker will simply ask us, "Did you do your part?" Sounds like you have with respect to the service (my dad was Iwo Jima, btw).

Sounds like you have a young family that needs a husband and father. I believe that's the biggest part of "your part."

Whatever you decide, it sounds to me like you're having the right conversation with yourself.; August 12, 2008 at 9:24 PM