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May 27, 2019
Memorial Day salutations from Washington, where we honor all those
who have laid down their lives to preserve our freedoms. In Iraq, Nolan
Peterson tells of an encounter illustrating why we remember their
sacrifice. Stateside, fellow veteran Steve Bucci
urges that we pass down the importance of this solemn day. Plus: Jim
Carafano on the president’s failure so far in Libya, Hans von Spakovsky
on the left’s silly claims of a “cover-up,” Celeste Barber on standing
up for the Pledge of Allegiance, and your responses
to a journalism group’s attack on The Daily Signal.
Commentary
A Memorial
Day Reminder From Iraq
Meeting Safeen reminded me that freedom is worth the fighting for,
and that America has friends forever due to the sacrifices of our
heroes.
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Analysis
Liberals
Seeking to Jail Top Trump Administration Officials Face Big Obstacles
The attorney general’s handling of the report by special counsel
Robert Mueller has been in accord with federal law, the federal rules of
criminal procedure, and Justice Department regulations.
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Commentary
Please
Don’t Forget Memorial Day’s Meaning
America has undergone a lot of maturing between the Vietnam War and
the conflicts of the 21st century. On Memorial Day, let’s not regress
in that maturity.
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Commentary
Trump
Gets an ‘F’ for Libya
The U.S. can make a huge difference—and it doesn’t require sending
the 82nd Airborne Division or writing a big check. The U.S. has the heft
and relationships with the important players to get them to act in
concert in Libya.
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Analysis
Singer
Mary Millben Is Passionate for Patriotic Music. Find Out Why (and Listen to Her Perform).
We interview singer and actress Mary Millben, who has performed for
three presidents and whose music is featured in the new film “The
Meanest Man in Texas.”
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Commentary
My
Fight for 1 College to Say the Pledge of Allegiance
When I realized that the Santa Barbara City College board of
trustees had discontinued saying the Pledge of Allegiance, I wrote to
the college president. He wrote back, saying the pledge was rooted in
racism, white nationalism, and nativism
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Hear You: Look Who’s Calling Daily Signal ‘Unreliable’
“I have not seen anything on The Daily Signal that was found to be false,” writes reader Wayne Harmon.
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Memorial Day -Honoring Heroes of Courage, Sacrifice & Faith
Douglas MacArthur
told West Point cadets, May 1962:
“The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death, he discloses those Divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in His own image … No physical courage and no brute instinct can take the place of Divine help which alone can sustain him. However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.” Memorial Day in America began during the Civil War when southern women scattered spring flowers on graves of both northern Union and southern Confederate soldiers, In the War Between the States, over a half-million died. Many places claimed to have held the original Memorial Day, such as: Warrenton, Virginia; Columbus, Georgia; Savannah, Georgia; Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; Boalsburg, Pennsylvania; Waterloo, New York. One such place was Charleston, South Carolina, where a mass grave was uncovered of 257 Union soldiers who had died in a prison camp. On May 1, 1865, former slaves organized a parade, led by 2,800 singing Black children, and reburied the soldiers with honor as an act of reparation and gratitude for their ultimate sacrifice which gave freedom to the slaves. In 1868, General John A. Logan, commander of the Civil War veterans’ organization “The Grand Army of the Republic,” called for a Decoration Day to be observed annually on May 30. American Minute-Notable Events of American Significance Remembered on the Date They Occurred President James Garfield’s only executive order was in 1881 where he gave government workers May 30 off so they could decorate the graves of those who died in the Civil War. During World War I, a Canadian Expeditionary gunner and medical officer, John McCrae, fought in the Second Battle of Ypres near Flanders, Belgium. Describing the battle as a “nightmare,” as the enemy made one of the first chlorine gas attacks, John McCrae wrote: “For seventeen days and seventeen nights none of us have had our clothes off, nor our boots even, except occasionally. In all that time while I was awake, gunfire and rifle fire never ceased for sixty seconds … And behind it all was the constant background of the sights of the dead, the wounded, the maimed, and a terrible anxiety lest the line should give way.” Finding one of his friends killed, John McCrae helped bury him along with the other dead in a field. Noticing the field covered with poppy flowers, he composed the famous Memorial Day poem, “In Flanders Fields”: “In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.” Notable individuals who fought in World War I include: Sergeant Alvin York, took out 35 machine guns and captured 132 enemy; John J. Pershing, General of the Armies; Douglas MacArthur, Brigadier General; George S. Patton, tank commander; Leonard Wood, future Army Chief of Staff; Harry S Truman, artillery officer and future 33rd President; Eddie Rickenbacker, commander of 94th Areo Squadron; Quentin Roosevelt, a pilot, son of President Theodore Roosevelt, was shot down and died; Charles Whittlesey, commander of the “Lost Battalion” behind lines; Frank Luke -“balloon buster”; Irving Berlin, composer of “God Bless America”; Edouard Izac, naval office captured on U-Boat, who escaped; Henry Johnson of the “Harlem Hellfighters”; Dan Daly, Marine Sergeant charged and captured machine gun nests; Ernest Hemingway, author of A Farewell to Arms; J.R.R. Tolken, British author of The Lord of the Rings; C.S. Lewis, British author of The Chronicles of Narnia. American Minute-Notable Events of American Significance Remembered on the Date They Occurred Also, Orval William Epperson, the grandfather of the writer of this article, fought in World War I. Born on a rugged Ozark farm near Anderson, Missouri, he fought in France, being assigned to the 338th Machine Gun Battalion 88th Division. His only son, Orval Wilford “Billy” Epperson, served in World War II as a bombardier on a B17 Flying Fortress, 525th Squadron, 379 Bomb Group A.P.O. 550 (#0-768946). 23-year-old “Billy” Epperson flew on their B-17 from Camp Crowder in southwest Missouri, over his hometown of Neosho, then headed for Kimbolton, England. He had written a Mother’s Day note to his mom, tied it with a handkerchief to a small weight and dropped it from the plane. A neighbor got it and brought to his mother. Little did anyone know that that would be the closest they would ever be again, as Billy was shot down by the Nazis over the English Channel near Holland on July 9, 1944. Miracles in American History (Vol. 3: Episodes 21-30) In 1921, President Warren Harding had the remains of an unknown soldier killed in France during World War I buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery. Inscribed on the Tomb is the phrase: “HERE RESTS IN HONORED GLORY AN AMERICAN SOLDIER KNOWN BUT TO GOD.” Since 1921, it has been the tradition for Presidents to lay a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which is guarded 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The number 21 being the highest salute, the sentry takes 21 steps, faces the tomb for 21 seconds, turns and pauses 21 seconds, then retraces his steps. Memorial Day grew to honor all who gave their lives defending America’s freedom in every war, including: Revolutionary War: 1775-1783 – 25,000; War of 1812: – 20,000; Mexican-American War: 1846-1848 – 13,283; Civil War: 1861-1865 – 625,000; Spanish-American War: 1898 – 2,446; World War 1: 1917-1918 – 116,516; World War 2: 1941-1945 – 405,399; Korean War: 1950-1953 – 36,516; Vietnam War: 1955-1975 – 58,209; Persian Gulf War: 1990-1991 – 258; Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan): 2001-2014 – 2,356; Operation Iraqi Freedom: 2003-2012 – 4,489; and ongoing wars against Islamic terrorism. Who is the King in America? And Who are the Counselors to the King? An Overview of 6,000 Years of History & Why America is Unique In 1968, one hundred years after the first observance, Memorial Day was moved to the last Monday in May. At the Memorial Day Ceremony, May 31, 1993, President Bill Clinton remarked: “The inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier says that he is ‘Known but to God.’ But that is only partly true. While the soldier’s name is known only to God, we know a lot about him. We know he served his country, honored his community, and died for the cause of freedom. And we know that no higher praise can be assigned to any human being than those simple words … In the presence of those buried all around us, we ask the support of all Americans in the aid and blessing of God Almighty.” In 1958, President Eisenhower placed soldiers in the tomb from WWII and the Korean War. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan placed a soldier from the Vietnam War in the tomb. DNA test later identified him as pilot Michael Blassie, a graduate of St. Louis University High School, 1966 and the U.S. Air Force Academy, 1970, whose A-37B Dragonfly was shot down near An Loc, South Vietnam. In 1998, Michael Blassie was reburied at Jefferson Memorial Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri. On Memorial Day, 1923, President Calvin Coolidge stated: “There can be no peace with the forces of evil. Peace comes only through the establishment of the supremacy of the forces of good. That way lies through sacrifice … ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.'” Charles Michael Province, U.S. Army, wrote the poem: “It is the Soldier, not the minister Who has given us freedom of religion. It is the Soldier, not the reporter Who has given us freedom of the press. It is the Soldier, not the poet Who has given us freedom of speech. It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer Who has given us freedom to protest. It is the Soldier, not the lawyer Who has given us the right to a fair trial. It is the Soldier, not the politician Who has given us the right to vote. It is the Soldier who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, And whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who allows the protester to burn the flag.” In his Memorial Day Address, May 31, 1923, President Calvin Coolidge said: “Settlers came here from mixed motives … Generally defined, they were seeking a broader freedom. They were intent upon establishing a Christian commonwealth in accordance to the principle of self-government … It has been said that ‘ God sifted the nations that He might send choice grain into the wilderness.'” Coolidge was citing an Election Sermon given in Boston, April 29, 1669, by Massachusetts Governor Judge William Stoughton, commenting on how persecution led Puritans to flee England and settle the New World: “God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.” Henry W. Longfellow used a similar line in his classic Courtship of Miles Standish: “God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.” This was explained further in Benjamin Franklin Morris’ classic The Christian Life and Character of The Civil Institutions of The United States (1864): “The persecutions of the Puritans in England for non-conformity, and the religious agitations and conflicts in Germany by Luther, in Geneva by Calvin, and in Scotland by Knox, were the preparatory ordeals for qualifying Christian men for the work of establishing the civil institutions on the American continent. ‘God sifted’ in these conflicts ‘a whole nation that He might send choice grain over into the wilderness’; and the blood and persecution of martyrs became the seed of both the church and the state … It was in these schools of fiery trial that the founders of the American republic were educated and prepared for their grand Christian mission … They were t rained in stormy times, in order to prepare them to … establish the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty and of just systems of civil government.” Concluding in his Memorial Day Address that America’s republic is worth preserving, President Calvin Coolidge stated May 31, 1923: “They had a genius for organized society on the foundations of piety, righteousness, liberty, and obedience of the law … Who can fail to see in it the hand of destiny? 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Good morning! This Memorial Day let us be grateful, count our blessings, and think of all those families who are left behind without their loved ones because they paid the ultimate price in service to our country. Thank you for your service. Below is a partial excerpt from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “We can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863 (Excerpt from the Gettysburg Address) President Trump said that “great progress” has been made in bilateral trade negotiations with Japan, signaling that a new deal with the Asian superpower will favor the United States more than the current arrangement. Read more Twenty-five Republican members of the Senate urged Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) to preserve “all long-standing pro-life and religious freedom protections in all appropriations bills” that advance out of the committee. Read more A photographer has for the first time shared photos of the Tiananmen Square protests to commemorate the upcoming 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. See The Photos Cambridge academic Stefan Halper, who was de facto outed as an FBI informant, is being sued for allegedly spreading lies to media about a supposed relationship between retired Gen. Michael Flynn and Halper’s Russian-born former colleague, Svetlana Lokhova. Read more Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) recently visited the Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters to review new material about former FBI agent Peter Strzok. Read more Twenty-nine inmates were killed and 19 policemen were injured at a police detention site in the state of Portuguesa, Venezuela, in an armed conflict attributed to gangs that operate with government support. Read more President Trump said he’s not disturbed by recent missile launches by North Korea and is confident that the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, would keep his promises. Read more President Trump filed an appeal seeking to overturn a federal judge’s ruling which upheld two Democrat-issued subpoenas seeking the president’s financial records from two banks. Read more See More Top Stories Just How Many Other Trump Campaign Members Were Targets of FISA Court Investigations? By Brian Cates The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] and the court created to oversee it’s implementation are going to be in the news quite a bit in the upcoming weeks. This is because the FISA Court plays a central role in the ongoing SpyGate scandal, which is only the biggest political scandal in the entire history of the United States, dwarfing even the Nixon Watergate scandal… Read more The Meaning Behind the Democrats’ Infighting Regarding Impeachment By Elad Hakim If the Democrats had anything that they could utilize to impeach President Donald Trump, they would have done so already. Instead, more than two years have passed since Donald Trump became president, and the Democrats find themselves fighting among themselves. Some are pushing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to initiate the impeachment process against the president, while others are a bit more hesitant because of the potential political… Read more See More Opinions Congressional Progressive Caucus Gets Foreign Advice on How to Socialize Democratic Party By Trevor Loudon About eight months before the midterm elections this year, the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) met with European socialists and communists at an “off-the-record, invite-only” strategy meeting in Baltimore. Read more The intelligence agencies from the UK are framing their Spygate involvement ahead of Trump’s declassification. The Telegraph has published two separate articles detailing their version of when the heads of UK intelligence were briefed about a dossier of claims about President Donald Trump’s alleged ties to Russia. UK Intel Agencies Frame ‘Spygate’ Involvement Ahead of Trump’s Declassification Copyright © 2019 The Epoch Times, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list or remove my account. |
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Good morning, Here is all the news conservatives need to know to start their day. At 4pm ET, you can catch me on radio to bring you up to speed on developments throughout the day. You can listen live here. Media Matters Pushes Selectively Edited Video of Ben Shapiro. Media Silent About the Fake News. Recall, if you will, the story of President George H. W. Bush and the grocery supermarket scanner. The New York Times recorded how amazed he was with the long-established technology and used it to paint him as out of touch. There’s just one problem. The story never happened. The reporter for the New York Times, […] The post Media Matters Pushes Selectively Edited Video of Ben Shapiro. Media Silent About the Fake News. appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » The Laodicea Church Is Now John the Revelator’s description of the church in Laodicea seems on target for modern America. The post The Laodicea Church Is Now appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » WATCHING THE MOVIES: Aladdin The Genie once again covers for a pretty cookie-cutter plot. The post WATCHING THE MOVIES: Aladdin appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Here’s What Voters In Georgia And Alabama Think Of Their New Abortion Laws Few have thought to check the opinion of local voters. The post Here’s What Voters In Georgia And Alabama Think Of Their New Abortion Laws appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Hunting, Conservation, Statehood, and Tribal Rights Addressed In Latest Supreme Court Decision Are members of Native American Tribes permitted to hunt off of a reservation? What considerations must states make? At the start of this week, the Supreme Court published an opinion in the case Herrera v. Wyoming. Gabby Hoffman’s District of Conservation podcast featured this case and a brief discussion regarding the facts of the case […] The post Hunting, Conservation, Statehood, and Tribal Rights Addressed In Latest Supreme Court Decision appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Rep. Omar bashes Pro-Lifers and Christians on the House floor. Don’t you know the Left is the arbiter of what is right? The recent abortion bill signed into law in Alabama has initiated the meltdown of thousands of leftists, including the freshman Democrats in the House. While celebrities Tweet from their ivory towers about being pro-choice, Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) decided to take her hate […] The post Rep. Omar bashes Pro-Lifers and Christians on the House floor. appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Democrats Lack Numbers To Force Pelosi To Impeach Pelosi is unlikely to enter into a battle over impeachment that she cannot win. The post Democrats Lack Numbers To Force Pelosi To Impeach appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » When ‘Fairness’ Becomes Censorship On April 10, 2018, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz grilled Facebook Chairman and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg over the social media platform’s content moderation policies. Citing examples of Facebook censoring pro-conservative accounts and articles, Sen. Cruz explained to Zuckerberg, “to a great many Americans, that appears to be a pervasive pattern of political bias.” Sen. Ted Cruz then pressed […] The post When ‘Fairness’ Becomes Censorship appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » No, Video Does Not Show Nancy Pelosi Drunk At Press Conference Remember, kids, if it seems too stupid to be true, it probably is. The post No, Video Does Not Show Nancy Pelosi Drunk At Press Conference appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Chip Roy: Hero. Single-handedly Forces Congress to Discuss Government Spending. Congressman Chip Roy just halted the advance of a $19.1 billion disaster aid package through the House of Representatives.. Democrats and Republicans were hoping to rush it through by unanimous consent. The congressman, a personal friend and endorsed by this site, is increasingly concerned that Congress is spending money without regard to deficits and debt. […] The post Chip Roy: Hero. Single-handedly Forces Congress to Discuss Government Spending. appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Recent Items: Remember, you can listen to the Erick Erickson Show anytime and anywhere via WSB Radio, iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud. As always, you can find pretty much anything and everything I’m writing about throughout the day via The Resurgent. Thanks for reading and tuning in. Erick Erickson THE RESURGENT Facebook Twitter Instagram Copyright © 2019 The Resurgent Media Group, LLC, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences |
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Mark Levin: Why Doesn’t The Media Question Nancy Pelosi’s Mental Health Like They Do With Trump?
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While Nancy Pelosi and Donald Trump are involved in a tit for tat
verbal assault on each other, Pelosi called Trump mentally ill. She is
in no position to talk. We’ve seen her stare into space, mumbling,
forgetting things, mispronouncing words, getting confused and not
through doctored videos either. She …
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Monday, May 27, 2019 This Memorial Day, I want to share the story of two brothers. The excerpt below is written by Mike Broomhead and tells the story of his brother Sgt. Thomas Broomhead, who was killed in action in Iraq 16 years ago on Memorial Day weekend. As you spend the weekend with family and friends, remember those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. My brother Tom was a lot less vocal than I am. You learned about Tom by watching him rather than hearing him. I now make a living in which people listen to what I say. They don’t necessarily know me, but they might take stock in the words I say. Tom was someone who didn’t say much, but the people around him learned a lot by the way he behaved. Tom joined the Marines in 1990. He was stationed in California, got out in 1994, and moved to Arizona. He worked at the state prison in Florence, Arizona. Then I moved there, and we lived together. |
Eventually he met his wife, who had three small children whom he
adopted. In order to care for them properly, he decided to go back into
the military and join the Army. He loved it and wanted it to be his
career. He decided to join the Army because they gave him a choice of
duty stations. He had already been deployed once as a Marine, and he was
afraid if he got deployed again, his wife would be stuck on a Marine
base somewhere in the middle of nowhere with three kids. He chose Fort
Carson in Colorado because her family lived five minutes from there. He
loved the Marines, but he chose the Army the second time around because
it was better for his family.
When 9/11 happened, he was one of my first calls.
“What’s happening?” I asked him.
“We’re going. I just don’t know when. We don’t know; obviously
something’s going to happen and we’re going to be in it,” he said
without hesitation.
The invasion happened in March of 2003. He wasn’t part of the first invasion. His unit followed the invasion into Baghdad.
All the commentators and naysayers said the Republican Guard of Saddam
Hussein was battle-hardened and tested. They waxed on about it being
Saddam’s terrain. They said the coalition forces could expect tens of
thousands of casualties in the push to Baghdad. Then our forces cut
through those guys like they were butter. They strolled into Baghdad.
That’s when I first noticed the divide in our country between the media
elite and the rest of us who actually know people in the military. It’s
not that the media elite are unintelligent. They just never meet or talk
with the people who actually do the work. They want to interview the
generals. I want to interview the generals, but I also want to interview
the sergeants. The media would have known what was going to happen if
they had interviewed the guys like my brother who were in the first Gulf
War. He would have said, “You think the Republican Guard is going to
beat us? Look at our equipment. Look at who our guys are.”
He was with the Eagle Troop of the 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry
Regiment out of Fort Carson, which later moved to Fort Hood. The
regiment was called the Brave Rifles, and its motto written by Wilfred
Scott was “Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and
blood and have come out steel.” General H.R. McMaster led the regiment
in the first Gulf War.
Tom was in a Bradley armored vehicle unit. When he and his fellow
squadron members moved into the Sunni triangle, they were first in a
town called Ramadi. His platoon leader, KC Hughes, was actually younger
than Tom. Tom was thirty-four. KC was in his late twenties. They had
come up with an idea that night in Ramadi. They would jump in a car
dressed in civilian clothes and drive around the city. They would look
for young men with rifles, so they would know that a military stronghold
was hidden in that place. Then they would go back and devise a plan to
either hit it that night or hit it the next day to get rid of the
militants in Ramadi.
It worked so well that when they locked down Ramadi, they moved my
brother’s platoon into Fallujah on Memorial Day weekend. In Fallujah,
they would have attacks at night. There were three or four freeway
entrances into the city. They didn’t know if the attacks were coming
from within the city or if people were coming into the city, hitting it,
and moving out. They came up with a plan that they would shut down the
freeways at night and check every vehicle coming into the city at all
three or four checkpoints. If the attacks stopped, they would know that
the attackers were coming from outside the city. If the attacks
continued, that meant they were coming from inside the city and they had
to start looking there.
On Memorial Day in Iraq, Tom and Sergeant Mike Quinn from Tampa,
Florida, were outside the city and checking vehicles as they came into
the city. A vehicle pulled up and opened fire on my brother and Mike.
Mike was killed instantly. Tom was shot in the legs. Tom pulled himself
to safety and took out the initial attackers. He shot the guys and took
them out by himself. Their platoon was ambushed. There were people
waiting in the building close to them. In the firefight, nine other guys
were wounded, including KC, who was shot through the collarbone in the
back.
They had a critical response team, another group of Bradleys and their
fighting vehicles that were waiting to help in an emergency. They called
in that team to come and assist, and they called for ambulances and
helicopters for the wounded. The other Bradleys were blacked out and
racing down the freeway. The first helicopter started taking small-arms
fire as it was trying to land in the landing zone. Instead of the pilot
going to the landing there, he almost landed on top of one of the
Bradleys and crashed. It was just chaos.
The next helicopter that landed took the pilot and crew from the crashed
helicopter instead of my brother or the other wounded guys. During the
time when they were waiting for a third helicopter to show up, Tom was
cracking jokes and calming everybody down, since he was ten years older
than most of the guys around him. He wanted to look out for the younger
guys. He was also doing triage and everything else with them. When
another ambulance helicopter finally showed up, they took my brother out
first because he was bleeding so badly. He had gotten hit in the
femoral artery in his leg, and there was no stopping the bleeding. He
bled out and died before he got to the hospital.
The Tuesday after Memorial Day, I got a call from a number in Florida
that I didn’t know. With a mother who is older, a brother who is
deployed, and a brother who is a cop, I knew it was probably not good
news. I answered it and a voice said, “Hey, my name is Ken. I work with
your mom. I don’t know how to tell you this, but your brother Tom was
killed in Iraq.”
The first thing I said was, “How is my mom?”
“She’s being taken care of. We are with her. The military is still with her. She’s okay. Your brother is on his way,” he said.
“Okay, thanks,” I said, and hung up the phone. Then I called my brother Bryan, who was driving from work to my mother.
My church paid for my family’s plane tickets to go to Florida the next
day. At six o’clock the next morning, I was on a flight going home.
In October of 2017, the media became focused on President Trump’s
outreach to Gold Star families. In a press briefing from the White
House, General John Kelly, who lost a son in combat, described what
happens after a soldier dies in combat:
“Most Americans don’t know what happens when we lose one of our
soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, or Coast Guardsmen in combat. So let
me tell you what happens.
Their buddies wrap them up in whatever passes as a shroud, puts them on a
helicopter as a routine and send them home. Their first stop along the
way is when they’re packed in ice, typically at the airhead and then
they’re flown to, usually Europe, where they’re then packed in ice again
and flown to Dover Air Force Base, where Dover takes care of the
remains, embalms them, meticulously dresses them in their uniform with
the—medals that they’ve earned, the emblems of their service, and then
puts them on another airplane linked up with a casualty officer escort
that takes them home.
A very, very good movie to watch, if you haven’t ever seen it, is Taking
Chance.…Chance Phelps was killed under my command right next to me, and
it’s worth seeing that if you’ve never seen it.
So that’s the process. While that’s happening, a casualty officer
typically goes to the home very early in the morning and waits for the
first lights to come on. And then he knocks on the door; typically a mom
and dad will answer, [or] a wife. And if there is a wife, this is
happening in two different places; if the parents are divorced, three
different places. And the casualty officer proceeds to break the heart
of a family member and stays with that family until—well, for a long,
long time, even after the internment. So that’s what happens.
Who are these young men and women? They are the best one percent this country produces.”
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