> Last night my wife and I rented "Saving Private Ryan." (I was not ready
> for the graphic scenes in the movie). I now have a new respect for our
> soldiers who serve and have served in the armed forces.
*Lots of people confuse the makeing of a Vet by watch'n movies<G>
(*short .02cent speech by -=A=-)
In truth the message was that the patrol was made up of us... *WE
were the "patrol" and a school teacher (tom hanks) led a diverse group
of re-luctent citizen-warriors...
Vet's come home... "Honored Dead" don't...
*Think about "Readiness" vs "Sacrifice" and Royal Rangers...
*"What-if" with respect to "saveing Priv.Ryan"....
Our boys were the patrol, and the "mission" was for them to
bring in a "lost boys soul" to the Master Ranger?
How would we prepare them to do "combat" and win?
(...he prays, reads the Bible and *whitnesses?)
*What if we are a "organized force of praying warriors?"
*is'nt the issue- Life or Death?
-=A=-
I have always
> had a respect for our soldiers. But, after seeing this movie and seeing
> a "more accurate" picture of WWII at Omaha beach, I never realized what
> our soldiers went through to secure a beach head. My grandfather served
> in the Navy during WWII. He was at Pearl Harbor during the attack. I
> remember him telling me of the attack, and waking up to the smell of
> burning oil and flesh. He would sometimes wake up in the middle of the
> night sweating and shaking from a dream of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
> I remember asking my Rangers one night what the American Flag stood for
> to them. I was shocked and sick when most of the older boys (pioneers
> and trailblazers) said, "That flag is just a piece of cloth." and "That
> flag doesn't mean any thing." Our SR. Commander at the time went
> balistic. How sad for todays youth to not realize what sacrifiecs were
> given for their freedom and how many lives were lost to keep that flag
> adn others free. Let' s, as commanders, remind our boys what that flag
> stands for and remind them of the men and women who gave their lives for
> that flag adn our freedom.
>
> Cmdr. Tony Bredow
> Outpost 238
> Poway, CA
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