Because we can all use positive news - hopefully it'll get linked around. You want to know what a few good men in Iraq can do?
CAMP SMITTY, Iraq(March 16, 2006) -- An Iraqi family just set the noon meal on the table when some unexpected American visitors knocked on their front door.
Marines from Company I, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment delivered a brand new pediatric wheelchair to the family of a disabled little girl in the town of Al Hasa, March 16. They are on duty in Iraq with Regimental Combat Team 5.
I want to take a noment to thank you for the link, not to my humble blog (I get few visitors), but, to the story of the Marines delivering a wheelchair. They didn't do it for the PR. They were in and out, in a heartbeat. They did it because it was a kind and thoughtful thing to do. They did it, because, they are American soldiers.
Your blog has a large following and this Good Story will get more exposure, thanks to you. Our troops are, mostly, just kids. They don't deserve the daily media beating.
They deserve a pat on the back.
Thank you, for giving them that pat.
Posted by: Barry Ross | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 04:01 PM
Thanks for sharing this.
Posted by: nc_mom | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 07:11 PM
Great story!! Those guys represent the best of the American spirit. Moments like this show that we are more alike than we are different. I only hope we don't hear some horror story of someone hurting her family to punish them because they accepted help from the Marines. It seems like that is the mindset too often these days. Keep your fingers crossed!
Posted by: raindrops | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 07:46 PM
"...They did it, because, they are American soldiers."
Word.
"Your blog has a large following and this Good Story will get more exposure, thanks to you."
Kickass.
"Our troops are, mostly, just kids."
Damn right.
"They don't deserve the daily media beating."
*skkkkrrreeeeeeech*
What?
"Beating"? What beating? I read lots of media. I don't see any reporters "beating" our soldiers. I see lots of coverage of the sectarian cleansing and emerging civil war, and big stacks of bodies from this screwup or that, but I don't see how that's "beating up" our soldiers.
So I don't get this juxtaposition at all. Here's a happy story about American soldiers. A real feel-good tale. It makes me feel proud of my countrymen.
What kind of person reads that story and instead of simply feeling proud, is compelled to go on to "friggin' reporters, always beating up our soldiers?" What kind of person says "See? They brought a kid a wheelchair! Don't you see this proves that you should suppress stories about the Iraqi civil war!"
Posted by: Laertes | Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 07:47 PM
First they blow her legs off...then they buy her a wheelchair.
What a bunch of heros.
MrsLevy
Posted by: MrsLevy | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 01:15 PM
Posted by: MrsLevy | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 01:15 PM
Ya know, MrsLevy, you're a real asshole - why don't you go give yourself a dynamite enema?
Posted by: Stella | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 02:18 PM
Ya know, MrsLevy, you're a real asshole
Don't mind her - whenever she thinks of soldiers, she can't keep it together. Her legs, that is.
Posted by: Dan | Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 05:00 PM