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2004 Soap Box Archives Semper Fi 11/19/04 John Kerry admitted to intentional war crimes and the major media did everything but canonize him. A U.S. Marine shoots an enemy whom he has every right to believe is getting ready to attack him and the major media tries to demonize him. This is a national disgrace, not what the Marine did but what the media is doing. Put yourself in this young Marine’s place. You walk into a building which has been used by insurgents to attack American Marines and there are bodies on the floor. They all look dead and suddenly one of them moves. You know he’s the enemy, you know their bodies have been known to be booby trapped, you know these people are willing to die just to kill one American. So what do you do, stand there and let this terrorist kill you or possibly everybody in your group or do you defend yourself and your buddies and shoot him? These Marines have been combat trained and combat hardened and their eyes have seen more that Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, the entire staff at CNN and the fruitcakes at the New York Times will ever see. This young man had been shot in the face just the day before and I’m sure he had a healthy distrust for insurgents. How dare you pompous media know-it-alls judge this brave young man from the safety of your high-rise offices. How dare you try to hang him for what was a simple act of war where split-second judgment and instant action are required. What would you have done? I suppose you would have taken it to the United Nations or take out your Geneva Convention handbook. And by the time you had made a decision you could well be dead along with everybody else in your outfit. This was not the corner druggist this Marine killed. He is a member of a religious sect who believe in cutting off innocent people’s heads in front of the whole world, who strap dynamite to their bodies and blow themselves up. I don’t know your name, son, but let me tell you something and I mean it from the bottom of my heart. You did what you had to do and no matter what the canned hams in the media say you did the right thing and I want to thank you for wearing that uniform, for volunteering to fight for this nation so the pansies in the media can sit back and take pot shots at you every chance they get. No matter what they say you are a United States Marine and there are millions of people who would love to shake your hand and tell you how very much they appreciate you. Without you and young people like you there would be no United States of America. I know that the Marine Corps will continue their tradition of taking care of their own, and tell the media to go stuff it. You’ve got nothing to be ashamed of young man. I only hope that someday I can meet you and tell you in person how much I admire you and all your brothers and sisters who risk their lives on a daily basis to keep America free and safe. May God bless you all. Semper Fi, young man. Pray for our troops. What do you think? God Bless America Charlie Daniels
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