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[amiaturtle]

The Real Medal of Honor. Thank you for your great sacrifice.

Via: http://www.military....ml?ESRC=army.nl

MoH to Green Beret Killed in Afghanistan
October 06, 2010
Associated Press

With the war in Afghanistan about to grind past another milestone, President Barack Obama on Wednesday honored the sacrifice of an Army Green Beret who died there by awarding him the nation's highest military award, the Medal of Honor.

In a solemn East Room ceremony, Obama told the family and friends of Staff Sgt. Robert Miller that the 24-year-old had been born to lead and had met his "testing point" with extraordinary courage.

The president told Miller's parents their son had died doing what he loved: protecting his friends and defending his country.

"You gave your oldest son to America," the president said, "and America is forever in your debt."

The president recounted the gripping story of Miller's leadership of a nighttime patrol of U.S. and Afghan troops in Kunar province near the Pakistan border on Jan. 25, 2008, when a much larger force of insurgents opened fire.

On that snowy day, Obama said, "like so many times before, Rob was up front."

Comrades who survived the battle say Miller continued advancing, firing and hurling grenades, even after he was wounded twice in the chest, pinning down enemy troops as he sought to rescue the others.

After the medal was presented, Obama hugged Miller's mother and shook hands with his father. He spoke of the sacrifice of all those service members who give their lives to protect America, but made no mention of Thursday's ninth anniversary of the bombardment that began the post-9/11 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.

"Every American is safer because of their service," Obama said, "and every American has a duty to remember and honor their sacrifice."

Miller is the third U.S. service member to receive the Medal of Honor for the Afghanistan conflict.

More than 1,200 U.S. troops have perished in the Afghan conflict, and this year already is the deadliest yet. Afghanistan is America's longest war since Vietnam.

In August, the troop surge Obama ordered last December to reverse Taliban gains reached its peak. Currently, U.S. troop strength numbers just under 95,000.

While vowing not to let Afghanistan became a haven for al-Qaida, Obama has set a deadline of next summer to start drawing down U.S. forces and handing responsibility to Afghan troops.

[amiaturtle]

Damn this is something, how in the hell does one loose control this much, wow:

[Pete]

damn that's sad. but it makes me feel better about myself so...

[JBlaze]

Holy cheeseburgers!

[amiaturtle]

Damn, why do people disable embedding.

Funny thing is that the child lost all that weight, but her mon hasn't lost any.

[amiaturtle]

I had not heard the full version of The Star Spangled Banner since I got out the Army. So if you have never heard the full version here it is:



"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships in Chesapeake Bay during the Battle of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812.

The poem was set to the tune of a popular British drinking song, written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. "The Anacreontic Song" (or "To Anacreon in Heaven"), with various lyrics, was already popular in the United States. Set to Key's poem and renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner", it would soon become a well-known American patriotic song. With a range of one and a half octaves, it is known for being difficult to sing. Although the song has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today, with the fourth ("O! thus be it ever when free men shall stand...") added on more formal occasions. The fourth stanza includes the line "And this be our motto: In God is our Trust.". The United States adopted "In God We Trust" as its national motto in 1956.

"The Star-Spangled Banner" was recognized for official use by the Navy in 1889 and the President in 1916, and was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution on March 3, 1931 (46 Stat. 1508, codified at 36 U.S.C. § 301), which was signed by President Herbert Hoover.

Lyrics:

O! say can you see by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation.
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

[Pete]

I had no idea. That girl was good. She is no Charlotte Church, but then again who is. lol

[amiaturtle]

Pete, on 04 March 2011 - 03:17 PM, said:

I had no idea. That girl was good. She is no Charlotte Church, but then again who is. lol

And you call your self American. Pinche Vato.

[amiaturtle]

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[amiaturtle]

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