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2007-10-02 Iraq

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Posted by CrazyFool 2007-10-02 01:21|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1 McDade didnt want the medal at first, because he knew that he would receive accolades for the medal, not for what he and his Marines had done. When he later accepted it, he made it clear that: I got it for the Marines who have fallen and for all the Marines who have done great things and never been recognized. This award, Im accepting it for me, but at the same time Im accepting it for all the Marines who go before and after me.

Now a drill instructor, McDade shares the story with his recruits, but while other DIs tell McDades story early on, he himself waits until the Crucible.

I dont want them to listen to me because I have a medal, he said. I want them to listen to me because Im a Marine.

I bet he's a hell of a DI. He's a hell of a man. WTG Sgt McDade!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-02 08:49|| 2007-10-02 08:49|| Front Page Top

#2 In the great karma of the universe, there in their little skulls lurks the ever ravenous creature of envy that eats away at the souls of the likes of the entire Humanities Department of Duke or the Administration office of Columbia, that real Homeric heroes walk among us. Men, common men, who's own existence intones honor and integrity that those lesser souls can only dream of. That must bite the self indulgent thrulls of nihilism that inhabit those small universes of academica. :)

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-10-02 09:19|| 2007-10-02 09:19|| Front Page Top

#3 A great man...a great Marine!

The Duke boot-licking "professors" wouldn't be worthy of licking his boots!!

Posted by Justrand 2007-10-02 10:43|| 2007-10-02 10:43|| Front Page Top

#4 That's ordinary heroism, I reallu look up to that, ordinary heroes. I have a couple bookmarks about that (both found in RB comments), Medal of Honor Citations & Home Of Heroes Home Page.
Note that I don't think it's an american phenomenon, and that kind of quiet, unassuming heroism is reserved for the US Army, but on the other hand, I'm pretty sure it's a pretty stark contrast with the type of groundless bravado and death-worshipping of the Lions Of Islam. Compare and contrast with the ideal of the suicide bomber and his otherworldly bordello.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-02 12:39|| 2007-10-02 12:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Of course it isn't only an American phenomenon. Ordinary heroes, men and women of such character that they quietly handle whatever must be done -- for love of their fellows and regardless of circumstance -- are to be found in every nation and time. That's the challenge such men as Sgt McDade pose to the rest of us: we too must choose to rise to whatever need life presents us, to serve and protect our fellows and our own small piece of civilization.

Compare and contrast with the ideal of the suicide bomber and his otherworldly bordello.
I intend to quote that one at dinner parties, anonymous5089. Never have I heard such a evocatively succinct description.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-10-02 13:17|| 2007-10-02 13:17|| Front Page Top

#6 that kind of quiet, unassuming heroism is reserved for the US Army

Just a minor quibble, but he's a Marine. As in U.S. not-part-of-the-damn-Army Marine Corps.

Posted by Pappy 2007-10-02 21:06|| 2007-10-02 21:06|| Front Page Top

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