Company Cdr.Christopher on left and Kilo Company platoon leaders, 3/2 Marines

January 20 - It's ironic that today, as Burak Hussian Obama became president, in large measure on his promise to end the war, my son Christopher returns for a second tour of duty in that shithole. I'm sure Chris would rather be with his wife and children but he is a Marine with a strong sense of duty. I'm very proud of his service but there are times I wish he was a baker or candlestick maker but then I think...

"Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."  

Rough Men
By
Russ Vaughn

There's a character trait that's decided by fate
Comes (sadly) to many, far too faint, far too late.
They won't face the aggressor, stand up to his ire
They have not the will to fight his fire with fire.
So they bend over backwards to see all sides as fair,
Till they're faced with the breath of the dragons fire.
Like our brethren in France, who'd know better than we,
Yet seem never to learn, seem doomed never to see.
 
Yes, it seems there are some who're determined by fate,
To possess not the courage to step up to the plate,
Who shrink from all threat because nothing's worth war.
But how can they know lest they've been there before?
Thank God some have courage, the will, yes, the grace,
To stand for the shirkers, stand strong in their place.
Thank God we have stalwarts who'll stand for us all,
Who will rise to the challenge, who will rise to the call.
 
The faint—hearted, who fear, whose reaction is flight,
Have no comprehension of those who will fight.
To hide their own trepidation they attempt to demean
The rough men, who defend them, as barbaric, obscene.
Yet these rough men stand ready, hard weapons to hand,
To put appeasers behind them, draw a line in the sand,
To preserve for the cowards what they won't defend,
So their own unearned freedom won't perish, won't end.
 
To appeasers, rough men are coarse government tools.
To rough men, appeasers are delusional fools.