The Boys of Company H

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   Lee

   May 30, 2005 at 9:53 pm

   Yes, very tough men. Gentleman that goes to my Church fought on Guadalcanal. Special generation of people.

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   Libertine

   May 30, 2005 at 10:54 pm

   I spent the day remembering the brave Americans who put their lives on the line and often died defending us…

   I passed up the chance to watch my beloved Red Sox tonight so I could watch the movie Patton, in fact all I watched were war movies today. In Patton I was reminded of the sacrifices of the 101st Airborne at Bastogne…and the terrible price paid on D-Day…the losses of the crews of the USS Arizona and Indianapolis…the men in the Bataan Death March…and of course Iwo Jima. What terrible sacrifices were paid by all those brave men. But I would like to remember all the people who died in service to their country through our history…

   The American Revolution
   The War of 1812
   The Mexican-American War
   The War of the States (Confederate and Union)
   The Spanish-American War
   WWI
   WWII
   The Korean War
   The Vietnam War
   Grenada
   Panama
   The Gulf War
   The Afghan War
   The Iraq War

   We really should be thanking them everyday not just once a year. But today I am thinking most about our men and women in Iraq right now…hoping they ALL get home soon and in one piece.

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   BadTux

   May 31, 2005 at 12:03 am

   Other wars we’ve fought that you don’t list here (I’m just listing the ones for which someone won the Medal of Honor, I am by no means listing every instance in which U.S. troops went into battle overseas):

   1871 — Korea
   1861-1898 – American Indian campaigns.
   1899 — Samoan campaign
   1899-1911 — Phillipine-American War (sometimes divided into “Phillipine Insurrection” and “Moro Wars”, brought the famed Colt 1911 .45 caliber pistol into service when it was discovered that the .38 caliber revolvers previously used simply did not have the stopping power needed).
   1900 — Boxer Rebellion
   1912 — Nicarauguan Campaign
   1914 — Mexican Campaign
   1915 — Haiti
   1916 — Dominican Campaign
   1919-1920 — Second Haiti Campaign
   1926-1933 — Second Nicaraguan Campaign
   1993 — Somalia

   As I said, I have only listed the less-well-known actions wars for which the Medal of Honor has been awarded. This is by no means an exhaustive list of all the times that American soldiers have been sent to war overseas, often on the most feeble of pretences. Still, even this list is a sobering one, if, like me, you believe that the role of the U.S. military is to defend America and Americans. Too often — far too often — the U.S. military has been deployed in places it had no business being sent, whether we are talking about Nicaraugua in 1926 or Somalia in 1992, for reasons that had nothing to do with defending our nation and its freedoms. Sobering thought, indeed… yet even when sent to war for the most bogus of reasons, our men and women in uniform have served honorably. That is worthy of respect no matter your political views regarding some of the wars they’ve been sent to fight.

   — Badtux the Patriotic Penguin

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   Thomas

   May 31, 2005 at 12:18 am

   I saw that last nite. Amazing, amazing fighting they had to go through.