on 5/29/2000 3:41 PM, Wheeler at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> *Remember one Vet today-
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> Slim, tall and dark hair and middle eastern complexion..
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> He's a Royal Ranger, and when he needed some council he
> called on his Commander...
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> *Something was real about the training he had just completed..
> At 17 and a Marine with orders to Vietnam in 1968 you must
> know it was not an "exercise" but a real shooting war he was
> about to be sent too.
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> FEAR was in his eyes... on his mind...
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> Mitch Silvers *pounded on the door of the house..
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> "Cdr.Hank! I'm scared and need to be SURE I'M
> RIGHT WITH GOD!"
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> *Later- Marines from 1st Marines 3rd division went ashore
> at a enemy held village at the mouth of the Chu Viet river in Quang tri
> provence... as the approched the village over the rice paddies on foot,
> a fire fight broke out with green tracers comming from the huts.. and
> red tracers flying back from the US Marines...
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> A young Royal Ranger was there that day in that spot- and though he could
> run like the wind at the Ranger track meet, he met his fate that day with
> a fatal shot from enemy small arms fire.
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> *I'm told that the Marines swept the village and turned that ground into a
> firebase fortress for several years... I'm also told it was abandoned and
> left behind...
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> PFC Mitchel Silvers should be remembered..
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> He should be remembered by every Ranger as he is one of us.
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> His fellow Marines pledge to be "allways faithfull"
> ...and when the flags fly, and the parades pass, and we rise to salute
> the sacrifice Men have made to remain free- *Remember Mitch Silvers.
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> *quiet-serious,slim and dark
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> *he was- READY
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> -=A=-
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 6:37 AM
> Subject: [RR] memorial day
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>> Y'all,
>> I just want to say a big thanks to our Veterans and
>> those who still serve in the Armed Service. No matter what ya do, your
> job
>> is importatn. From working on the air planes to the front line on the
> battle
>> field. Thank you so much for our Freedom. I have the church sign to do.
> So
>> bassically we have Thank You Veterans for our Freedom. We mean it when we
>> say it. We thank God for our Freedom from Sins, and we also reconize
> those
>> who also gave there life
>> John
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A salute, a hug, and a holy kiss to all those who went, from 1775-1990,
and came back.
A tear and a prayer for all those who didn't come back like Mitch and my
friend Joe Schnell. And also for those like my friend Bob who returned in
body only and died from "wounds" 20 years later.
There is a bond that is only shared by those who have "seen the elephant."
I consider myself both lucky and unlucky to not share that.
To Duane and all those on the 'net, I pray that God help us as commanders,
should (Lord forbid) the time come for "our boys" to go in harm's way to a
foreign land to lay down their lives for people they've never met, may we as
commanders have done our job - may those boys truly be "ready."
--
Gary Burn'n Heart
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