QOTD
"Through your sacrifice and commitment, through your professionalism and skill, you are adding a proud new chapter to the already rich history of America's military service. It is clearly a case of serving something larger than self and it is impossible to calculate the value of what you are giving to our country."
- Gen David Patraeus, July 4, 2008 at the re-enlistment ceremony of 1,215 soldiers in Iraq
Did you hear about this one?
Yeah, me neither.
On July 4 this year, 1,215 re-enlisted in Iraq, the largest re-enlistment ceremony since the army went all volunteer in 1973.

Here are two stories:
  1. online.wsj.com/article/SB121624997299260075.html - I read about it first in the WSJ.
  2. newsblaze.com/story/20080704194340zmil.nb/topstory.html - I got the awesome picture to the right from this story.
Click on that picture over there... full-size, it is flipping awesome!

So, F the media.
And the pols.
And all the respect in the world to our army guys, who are the absolute best.
for john sullivan... yow, bill

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