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Capture the flag
W. Thomas Smith, Jr., National ReviewThis is ballsy. Insanely so. I snatched a Hezbollah flag the yellow banner with the green fist and rifle from one of the enemy's strongholds in Lebanon recently. And when I say stronghold, I literally mean a strong, heavily defended battle position where the Lebanese Army and police dare not enter, and I had to enter covertly. Kathryn[ Jean Lopez, NR Editor,] knows about it. I'm pretty sure she thinks I'm nuts. I'm also pretty sure she might be right. But I did it for two reasons: First, in my often flawed logic I figured that if the terrorists caught me taking the flag, they would as expressed by a former Christian militiaman who was with me at the time cut my head (meaning cut my head off). But the way I saw it, they would cut my American head if they caught me flag or no flag anyway. Second, I hate those guys. Hezbollah, you'll remember, murdered 241 of my brothers when they blew up the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 when I was just a wee-rifleman in the Corps. The enemy stronghold where I snatched the flag was not far from the site of the bombing. Of course, because there were others involved with me in the flag capture who are still in Lebanon, I cannot for the sake of their own security detail the particulars of our little mission. Posted by: Mike 2007-10-22 |
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