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	A VIET NAM WARRIOR SPEAKS OF THE WAR IN IRAQ   By: Michael Kevin Murphy *

Dear Dusty (and Democratswrite.com):

What a terrible mess our civilian “leadership” has made of our recent and continuing adventure in Iraq.  It boggles the mind that these people are so naive as to think that we had both the moral authority, the need, and the ability to unilaterally transform what is still a near Medieval society into a 21st Century democracy at all, let alone in a reasonably short period and without great loss of life and National honor to say nothing of the cost in dollars.

Having said that though, we must not fail to honor and remember  in our thoughts and prayers those who have selflessly given of themselves by service and dying in uniform to do their duty  by supporting  that misguided leadership, a leadership that in large numbers successfully evaded real service in uniform when they were of age years ago but despite that  lack of spine and sense of responsibility to our country now feels they have the wisdom to commit to battle those who are willing to so serve.  That is so much more than arrogance; a dangerous “smugness” is more like it perhaps.  God help us all.

The photo (above) of the wife who slept next to her husband’s casket, a fallen Marine, is, perhaps, the most powerfully moving image I have ever seen. I cannot look at it without crying.  If most pictures are worth a thousand words that one picture speaks volumes of a life cut way too short and its impact on those left behind. It really shows so much more than words can describe or explain that I won’t even try to.

*Mr. Michael Kevin Murphy is an attorney in Virginia, and a B.E.A. correspondent  of long standing. Mike served with the U.S. Army in Viet Nam during the period which straddled the 1968 Tet Offensive. He was commanding officer of an infantry rifle company in the Mecong River delta and  his badges and decorations  include the U. S. Parachutist Badge, the U.S. Combat Infantryman’s Badge, the Vietnam Ranger Badge (Biet Dong Quan), the U.S. Bronze Star Medal, thirteen Air Medals, and the Vietnam Gallantry Cross.

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