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My Sacrifice is Noble and Just (Daniel Jorge) |
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Daniel Jorge describes his service and sacrifice in Iraq as noble and just.
As a air transporter i spent 98 days at the main base in the persian gulf where all the cargo and the troops come in,and from there foward deploy them to where ever they finally serving as well as recieve the troops going back home as well as the civilian contractors.
i respect my fellow marines and army soldiers copatriots for sacrificing themselves in the line of fire;i especially want to have the young ones understand how noble the cause is.I am forth generation military and im well educated on Vietnam as well as WWII and i have been in the military now 25 years. Even though i have a rear support job i got a chance to talk to soldiers and marines coming off the C-130 cargo planes for rest and recooperation and even met an Iraqi linguinst who lives in Detroit,MI whose father escaped the saddam regime in 1991 before the ground war ended via Jordan with his three little children(him one of them)and his wife because he knew of the impending doom for bieng anti-saddam in the town he lived in once the war was over.
First off i want to say that congress shouldve went to the president asked him how much he needed to make the situation work and not wait four months after we are there to approve the 87 billion and not consider the logistics with uniting the cargo of the different contracts at the air force base building the pallets and planning the missions so our soldiers,sailors,airmen and marines can recieve it in time to adapt to using in the region. In Nov.03 i was Charleston A.B. and i remember loading many Humvee armor kits for Iraq;when those kits should have been there DEC.02.The public doesn't understand how expensive some of our military equipment is to complete successful missions.
I was in the Gulf from May,30-Sep,6 04 in the country of Qatar and the reason we don't get attacked there is because they do not tolerate any form of association of terroism.As for the insurgency i do believe very much from what i heard that alqueda is very much a part of it and yes i do believe that they the saddam regime met in prague before 9/11 to discuss the what ifs with alqueda and remember after we went in to afganistan;alqueda had no where to go so they went to a country that even though saddam was a secular leader;he and osama bin laden had one common ground they agreed upon the destruction of our America.
The Iraqi american told me that we as Americans will never understand the magnitude of us freeing the country in words. His eyes welled up when we talked about the human destruction saddam left behind to include the discovery of 270 mass graves.The problem i see with not knowing how to fight the insurgency especially in the beginning is greatly contributed to Iran and Syria for not keeping alqueda out of Iraq.There have been mistakes made by our military leaders but only because they never forsaw the negligence of the neighboring countries toward Iraq and our mission bieng noble when it is.
I have a whole lot of Arab friends in New york and they are educated of what we are trying to help the Iraqi people establish and all Americans should understand by now after 228 years of liberty; to obtain and maintain freedom and liberty it is not without sacrifice of ourselves for ourselves or for our friendly countries who wish to obtain and maintain that humantarian goal and ask of us to help them.Our cause is not in vain;i leave you with one last phrase that was developed by Vietnam Veterans "SOME GAVE ALL ALL GAVE SOME"
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