Prime's Worm Hole : In the line of duty

Sunday, November 15, 2009

In the line of duty

Funerals Held for Some Fort Hood Shooting Victims

As the agony of the Fort Hood terrorist attack continues to play out in the media, a very important reality is being missed IMO. And that reality is that we have 12 Army personnel and one civilian who died defending their country during a terrorist attack.

Some may attempt to say that those lost were not engaged in combat against a recognized enemy, therefore, their deaths while tragic, weren't in the line of duty. These are the same one's now baying and shrilly whining that the acts of Hasan were not a terrorist inspired and conducted act.

But I beg to differ. A soldier doesn't have to be holding a rifle on a battlefield far away, to be fully engaged in protecting this country and thus become the victim of a terrorist. And I maintain that these thirteen were fully engaged in defending their country. As I equally maintain and believe that they died at the hands of a terrorist.

They never expected to be called upon to die on their own soil. Not in the relative comfort and safety of their own base, but the enemy within found them and targeted them just the same. Just as assuredly as if they had been deployed in either Afghanistan or Iraq, they were targeted for who they were and what they represented to the enemy. And the enemy they confronted that terrible day was no different than the enemy that their comrades are continuing to confront daily on the known and recognized battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The fact that we as a nation have been failed and let down by those in power does not change that reality one bit. The fact that there are still those in our military and in our government, more concerned with being politically correct, than with protecting the lives of our citizens or our military personnel should not come as a shock to those who deal in truth and honesty. Even the Army Chief of Staff Gen. Casey revealed his egalitarian stripe in the aftermath of this massacre. It remains more important to him to protect the sensibilities of those who might become offended, than it is for him to assure the safety of his troopers. How disgusting. and this man wears the uniform of this country and holds the title of Army chief of Staff?

These thirteen fallen heroes were not only warriors for this nation, but they are also now our honored dead. They shed their blood and gave their lives in the ongoing battle and war being waged between freedom and democracy and Islamic Jihad ism.

Make no mistake, these men and women earned our love and appreciation and they are entitled to every honor and recognition that we as a nation can bestow upon them. And that includes the bestowing of medals and honors in all their conspicuous presentation to their surviving family members. And that is as it should be IMO.

We as a nation should not allow the memory of these honored dead to pass into history with no more than the whimpers and cries of their loved ones to stand as testament to their service and sacrifice. The time is not quite yet, but soon. There needs to be monuments erected at Fort Hood and at Arlington commemorating the lives and service of these thirteen who died at the hands of terrorist extremism. And in the interim, the Army should bestow on these families the appropriate combat action medals of this country. In recognition for their service against and sacrifice in the face of Islamic fanaticism.

As a family friend of one of the dead remarked this week as his funeral procession passed by....

"He was killed by a terrorist in my mind but he was still killed in the line of duty. We owe him a debt of gratitude, him and his family and the other soldiers. We owe them our lives, our freedom," she said.

I agree. Honor them and their service. Honor their memories and allow their families the honor of recognition that they both earned and deserve. And hopefully, allow someone with honor and integrity to be the one to present the honors to these surviving families.

Hopefully someone not steeped in the falsehoods of political correctness and the supposed diversity and tolerance and egalitarian bogus lies that led to these deaths.

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Prime's Worm hole

This is a place for me to muse about the issues that affect our world. My world and my country and my life in particular. I can say what I want to here and those who may stumble across my musings, are welcome to comment,or not. America is under siege. Everything this nation has ever represented, is now being torn asunder and crushed by the onslaught of egalitarian socialism. All morals and social values have been devolved into the belief that systemic racism, is the only underlying cause or reason for any societal ills in America. And that representation, is nothing but a Trojan Horse argument. A means of getting the egalitarian camel's nose into the tent. And now that it has been inserted? There is mayhem and anarchy and burning and looting all across America. And the only questions that remains to be asked and answered? Are these. When is enough enough and when will the American people call full stop and take the law into their own hands, to repel this socialist based attack on the Constitution and our personal freedoms.

Thinking

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then -- just to loosen up and be a part of the crowd.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone -- "to relax", I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.
Thinking became more and more important to me and finally I was thinking all the time.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't help myself.

I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau, Muir, Confucius and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."

"Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..."

"I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver.

"You think as much as college professors and college professors don't make that much money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!"
She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama.

"I'm going to the library," I snarled
I headed for the library, in the mood for some John Locke. I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors.

They didn't open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.

Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Emerson, a poster caught my eye, "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.

This is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.

I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.

Today I took the final step...I joined the Democratic Party

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If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

Captain Michael O'Donnell was lost in Cambodia on March 24 1970, while flying a UH1 rescue helicopter, trying to rescue an eight man LRRP team under attack in Cambodia. He was listed as MIA along with the eight he had attempted to rescue after his UH1 Huey was shot down by enemy fire. The official military report listed the eight as shot down 'non survivable' and 'non recoverable.'

Michael O'Donnell was submitted for the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions that day. He was awarded the Distinguished flying cross, the Bronze Star, The Air Medal and The Purple Heart and he was promoted to the rank of Major (posthumously).

In 1978 he was officially listed as KIA by the Department of Defense.

A little about the philosophy of the author

The Borg Conspiracy is one man's purely pedestrian thoughts, independent musings and frequently cheeky commentaries...Mixed with an abundance of patriotism, love of God, and love of country.

My thoughts?

In my opinion........in another generation, all that will remain of our once great republic, may be little more than what is left to weather the passage of time in the form of a few obscure and forgotten monuments to the great American experiment.

If America should fail....let it be written as her epitaph.....died by her own hand. The greatest experiment in freedom ever undertaken, lost in the end to the pursuit of the illusion that egalitarian tolerance was more valuable than individual freedom.

Let us be warned.
Franklin, Payne, Jefferson. They all knew the consequences of the lack of vigilance and they tried to warn us. They gave us a document as our guide post. We were to guard it and revere it and use it to guide and govern our future and our posterity.

No one listened.