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I
recently saw Director Clint Eastwood's awesome depiction of the WW II battle for
Iwo Jima (where our Marines and the U.S. Navy took on the well entrenched
Japanese military) in his movie FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS. EVERY
AMERICAN who has not been face to face with the enemy in combat should see this
movie and develop just a little sense of what the horror of war is and what
close combat can do to physically and psychologically affect those who are in
the midst of it and survive it. So true is what was said in the film that the
true heroes are those who didn't come back - they are the ones who died to keep
our country free! Seeing those torn and bloody bodies of men who were there to
fight and possibly sacrifice their very life for all us is awesome and heart
rendering. We Americans who enjoy freedom in this great nation because of those
who have served and who yet serve so valiantly should all feel a need to thank
those brave men and women. Of major importance is that we recognize what the
men on the ground and in the air and on the seas face for the defense of freedom
and, as I prove in the Victory Edition (second edition) of my book
Expendable Elite - One Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare know
the truth about the fact of our government aiding and abetting the enemy in
Vietnam, even setting the stage for our fighting men to be killed from enemy
"sanctuaries" they were not permitted to return fire to the enemy - causing our
men to be sacrificed for political reason. General William Westmoreland, as I
quote in my book, confesses to being ordered to permit the enemy safe havens and
gives that same enemy the protected use of the Mekong River for transport of
their weapons and ammunition from outside of Vietnam to their Cambodian safe
havens.
What do our servicemen and women may now face in Iraq or
Afghanistan? Do any of you who have never been in war and in physical contact
with the enemy have any idea what our men and women go through in this terrible
war against Islamic Fundamentalists? All wars are terrible and it is a fact
that no two wars are alike and no two battles within a war are the same. Only
those who have "been there and done that" know what it is like and "it isn't
nice!" Our forces in Iraq don't always know who the enemy is or how, where and
when that enemy will attack. The fact is that many terrorist attacks are from an
enemy that kill and wound our men and women from ambush or by electronic
ignition of roadside bombs and our forces must adapt and take the war to them in
their hiding places, even mosques! As if to keep our forces from doing their
job the Iraqi leadership has dictated the re-deployment of our fighting men from
Baghdad to other areas for tribal and/or political reasons. Rational winning
strategy meant to destroy the enemy no matter where that enemy be within their
nation should be the rule. You surely have heard or seen enough on radio or TV
to fully comprehend the basics of what I write. Now I ask that you please write,
call or visit your Congressman and your Senators and demand that our armed
forces be given the way, the weapons, and the go ahead, to win! If they are not
allowed to win - bring them home!
LTC Daniel Marvin, USA
(Ret), Cazenovia, New York - Veteran of two wars
Author of Victory
Edition - Expendable Elite - One Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare
A book dedicated to the truth about war and about our government's aiding the
enemy in war.
Psalm 118:6
The Lord is on my side; I will not fear; what can man do unto me?
related
articles:
Reflections of a Green Beret, LTC Daniel
Marvin: Biographical Sketch
Liberty To The Captives
Podcast:
Green Beret Lt. Col. Daniel Marvin (Retired) Blows the Whistle on CIA-Directed
Assassination Campaigns
Note:
LTC Daniel Marvin went to be
with the Lord in 2012. |