Marines: The Few, the Proud, the Unarmed, the Dead

Four American heroes dead.   One stupid policy   Gun free safety zones yet again used to commit mass murder:

Salute: Ace

Marines volunteer to defend their nation.  For God’s sake let them defend themselves.

Addendum I, Doug Powers @ Michelle

Social Justice Warrior is just a euphemism for ignorant bigot.   If you don’t like the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, then it is your right not to display it, via David French, National Review:

It is

While am not a lawyer, I do believe that Michelle Manhart, ex of United States Air Force and former Playboy model, was legally wrong to take a United States flag that was not her property, video:

Having said that Manhart

A Bowe Bergdahl, and Barack Obama, take from north of the border, video:

All very sad.

Addendum: south of the border commentary, video:

Still sad.

Good news, bad news.   The good, the Army has apparently decided to charge Bowe Bergdahl with desertion.   The bad news, Bergdahl will not face the firing squad.

Hat tip:  Moe Lane, Red State.

1950, Harry’s (President Harry S. Truman) Marines, from Wall Street Journal

On Dec. 6, 1950, [1st Marine Division CO Colonel Lewis “Chesty” Puller] was ordered to break out of Chosin Reservoir and open an escape route to Hungnam port. The

Point, the New York Slimes, via Ace:

The Rush to Demonize Sgt. Bergdahl

Four months ago, Senator John McCain said he would support the exchange of five hard-core Taliban leaders for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. “I would

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS

ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force!

You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The

I withdraw my earlier suggestion that Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl deserves a prison cell in Fort Leavenworth.   Rather he deserves a holding cell, and the to be lined up against a wall.

When the regime wants to trot out a lie,

The honoring of our vets has always held special meaning for me; it’s a lesson my parents instilled very well, indeed. It was brought home to me, as I was recently looking at pictures from a trip we made through

The Barrycade brigade:

The vet has no legs, but he does have a pair. Well done.

Hat tip, BSWK, and more, Karen, Lonely Conservative.

Some of what John Ondrasik saw when he went to Washington City:

A  tribute by President the Buck Stops Here:

re:

A diss by President Buck Passer:

John Ondrasik’s full photo essay

The charge of the geriatric brigade, from Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes

WASHINGTON — Wheelchair-bound elderly veterans pushed aside barricades to tour the World War II Memorial Tuesday morning, in defiance of the government shutdown which closed all

File under, I like Ike. It is only one theater in one town, but I do applaud the idea that traitors should be held accountable, at least in some small way:

ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) — A central Kentucky

An American hero has pass.   Second Lieutenant Daniel K. Inouye dead at age eighty-eight.   Citation via Halls of Heros:

Second Lieutenant Daniel K. Inouye distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 21 April 1945, in the vicinity of San