[pct-l] Fwd: Fwd: JUST KIDS....Taking Chance

[Gary Schenk]

My Father, 5th Army Air Force, 1944, says you guys should keep your
political crud off the list. It, and both of you, are going into my kill
file. Have a nice day.

Gary

On Mon, May 28, 2018 8:09 pm, Randy Forsland wrote:
> You said it right the first time....Freud is always right
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> Redwood
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> 16th SOS Gunner
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> 1971-1978
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> From: Pct-L <pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net> on behalf of Reinhold Metzger
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> Subject: [pct-l] Fwd: Fwd: JUST KIDS....Taking Chance
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> RATS!!!...I meant to say TRUMP not OBAMA.
> ........................................................................
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> To my hiking buddies,....those who served and those who know the "PAIN".
>
> Like always, on Memorial Day, I was watching the movie "Taking Chance"
> and it took me back to a time very long ago.
> If  "Memorial Day"  means anything to you, you owe it to yourself to watch
> the movie "Taking Chance".
> It will rip your heart out, make you feel all mushy inside and make you
> appreciate and respect the honor bestowed upon our fallen heroes on
> Memorial Day.
> It is by far the movie that best reflects what Memorial Day stands for.
> I don't know what it is about Memorial Day that makes me feel this way
> and makes me say the things I am about to say.......
> /
> We were  "just kids",  in the summer of 1965, when we landed in Vietnam.
> //"Just kids", most of us 18-19-20 years old, just barely out of
> High//School,
> not yet old enough to drink but old enough to die for our //country. /
> /We never could quite understand that....if you are old enough to die
> //for
> your country you should be old enough to drink. /
> /With one year of advanced infantry training including jungle, desert,
> //cold
> weather, hand to hand combat and raider training we were gung ho //
> Marines, tough enough to chew nails...I mean we were Captain //Tolleson's
> Echo 2/7, the cream of the crop of the Marine Corps' //Raider Battalion
> and
> ready to kick a$$. //
> We were "just kids", eager to be Marines, eager to serve during a time
> //of
> war, eager to be heroes. //
> That naive fantasy thinking can change mighty quick when the landing //
> crafts hit the beach and bullets start flying.
> //There is no glory in war, only misery......it is your worst nightmare.
> //
> Our first casualty was by friendly fire....the tragic part was that
> //the bullet
> that caused our first casualty was fired by the casualties //best friend.
> //In combat, sometimes reflex decisions have to be made in a split second
> and //sometimes those decisions turn out not to be the right ones.
> //In my mind there is no greater honor than serving your country during
> //a time
> of war and no greater sacrifice than a soldier paying the //ultimate
> price while
> serving his country during a time of war.
> //Take Pat Tillman for instance....Pat was a professional football
> //player who
> had fortune and fame yet walked away from a 3.6 million //dollar
> contract to
> serve his country and paid the ultimate //price...ironically, also by
> friendly fire.
> //But it does not matter, friendly fire, enemy fire, the results are
> //always the
> same and Memorial Day is to honor all of our fallen heroes,//for they
> served
> their country and paid the ultimate price. //
> If it were not for men like that, Obama might be our Prime Minister or
> //our
> national language might be German and Memorial Day is to remind us //of
> that and pay our respect to these fallen heroes who sacrificed //their
> lives
> so that we can enjoy what we have today.
>
> //We did not consider ourselves to be "just kids",...but now that I am
> older //and
> wiser I realize, we WERE "just kids".
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> //Nothing has really changed and many of our troops serving in Iraq and
> //Afghanistan
> are still "just kids"....not yet old enough to drink, //but old enough
> to die for their country. /
> /Think about that for a moment, on Memorial Day, and what that day
> //stands for. /
>
> /Reinhold Metzger
> //Sgt. USMC 1964-68
> //Gunner, Echo Co., 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines
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