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I received this from a friend and wanted to share this with you. It’s from an e-mail exchange between two retired Marines in regards to the photo posted below.
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Excuse me if this is too late...I was in Bridgeport, Ca (MCMWTC) last week for a workshop...and am just now plowing through the 200+ e-mails.

This picture is of Cpl Jim Wright, who lost both hands to an RPG in Iraq...quite a leadership story in itself. Our CG, MajGen T. Jones, has befriended this fine Marine (and others) recuperating at Walter Reed and Bethesda, and his story of Cpl Wright brings tears to ones’ eyes. Most telling was after Cpl Wright told MajGen Jones his story (lost both hands and also rec’d a serious wound in the upper thigh)...the general asked him how he kept awake and from going into shock. The Cpl replied: “Sir, I couldn’t pass out...I was in charge!”

That is what our young leaders are made out of!

You can read more about Cpl James Wright in this story in Marine Times - CLICK HERE

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Subject:  A Real Hero
May 07 Lonsberry Column

Maybe you’d like to hear about something other than idiot Reservists and naked Iraqis.

Maybe you’d like to hear about a real American, somebody who honored the uniform he wears.

Meet Brian Chontosh.

Churchville-Chili Central School class of 1991. Proud graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Husband and about-to-be father. First lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps.

And a genuine hero.

The secretary of the Navy said so yesterday.

At 29 Palms in California Brian Chontosh was presented with the Navy Cross, the second highest award for combat bravery the United States can bestow.

That’s a big deal.

But you won’t see it on the network news tonight, and all you read in Brian’s hometown newspaper was two paragraphs of nothing. Instead, it was more blather about some mental defective MPs who acted like animals.

The odd fact about the American media in this war is that it’s not covering the American military.  The most plugged-in nation in the world is receiving virtually no true information about what its warriors are doing.

Oh, sure, there’s a body count. We know how many Americans have fallen. And we see those same casket pictures day in and day out. And we’re almost on a first-name basis with the pukes who abused the Iraqi prisoners. And we know all about improvised explosive devices and how we lost Fallujah and what Arab public-opinion polls say about us and how the world hates us.

We get a non-stop feed of gloom and doom.

But we don’t hear about the heroes.

The incredibly brave GIs who honorably do their duty. The ones our grandparents would have carried on their shoulders down Fifth Avenue.

The ones we completely ignore.

Like Brian Chontosh.

It was a year ago on the march into Baghdad. Brian Chontosh was a platoon leader rolling up Highway 1 in a humvee.

When all hell broke loose.

Ambush city.

The young Marines were being cut to ribbons. Mortars, machine guns, rocket propelled grenades.
And the kid out of Churchville was in charge. It was do or die and it was up to him.

So he moved to the side of his column, looking for a way to lead his men to safety.

As he tried to poke a hole through the Iraqi line his humvee came under direct enemy machine gun fire.

It was fish in a barrel and the Marines were the fish.

And Brian Chontosh gave the order to attack. He told his driver to floor the humvee directly at the machine
gun emplacement that was firing at them. And he had the guy on top with the .50 cal unload on them.

Within moments there were Iraqis slumped across the machine gun and Chontosh was still advancing, ordering his driver now to take the humvee directly into the Iraqi trench that was attacking his Marines.

Over into the battlement the humvee went and out the door Brian Chontosh bailed, carrying an M16 and a Beretta and 228 years of Marine Corps pride.

And he ran down the trench.

With its mortars and riflemen, machineguns and grenadiers.

And he killed them all.

He fought with the M16 until he was out of ammo. Then he fought with the Beretta until it was out of ammo.

Then he picked up a dead man’s AK47 and fought with that until it was out of ammo.

Then he picked up another dead man’s AK47 and fought with that until it was out of ammo.

At one point he even fired a discarded Iraqi RPG into an enemy cluster, sending attackers flying with its grenade explosion.

When he was done Brian Chontosh had cleared 200 yards of entrenched Iraqis from his platoon’s flank.

He had killed more than 20 and wounded at least as many more.

But that’s probably not how he would tell it.

He would probably merely say that his Marines were in trouble, and he got them out of trouble. Hoo-ah, and drive on.

“By his outstanding display of decisive leadership, unlimited courage in the face of heavy enemy fire, and utmost devotion to duty, 1st Lt. Chontosh reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.”

That’s what the citation says.

And that’s what nobody will hear.

That’s what doesn’t seem to be making the evening news.

Accounts of American valor are dismissed by the press as propaganda, yet accounts of American difficulties are heralded as objectivity.

It makes you wonder if the role of the media is to inform, or to depress - to report or to deride. To tell the truth, or to feed us lies.

But I guess it doesn’t matter.

We’re going to turn out all right.

As long as men like Brian Chontosh wear our uniform.

- by Bob Lonsberry ) 2004

Marine Capt. Brian R. Chontosh received the Navy Cross Medal from the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, Gen. Michael W. Hagee, during an awards ceremony Thursday at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Training Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif.

Verification By: TruthOrFiction.com

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We’ve said from Day 1 that Michael Moore’s film “Fahrenheit 9/11” was an attempt by Moore to undermine the War on Terrorism so he could achieve his political goal of defeating President Bush.

To further bolster that argument - that Moore wants nothing more than for the U.S. to lose the fight against terrorism - today’s London newspaper “The Guardian” reports that the terrorist organization, Hezbollah, is trying to help promote the movie.

According to the U.S. State Department, Hezbollah is responsible for the deaths of over 300 Americans as a result of terrorist attacks committed by the group.  The most notorious was the horrific 1983 Hezbollah attack on the Marine barracks in Lebanon.

CLICK HERE to read The Guardian’s story “Fahrenheit 9/11 gets help offer from Hezbollah”

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Hi, this is Melanie Morgan - Vice Chair of Move America Forward and host of KSFO 560 AM (San Francisco) radio program “Lee Rodgers and Melanie Morgan Show.”

I’m honored to work with my friend, Howard Kaloogian, on this important cause to rally Americans to stand united behind the men and women of the armed forces and their mission: fighting the war on terrorism around the world (including in Iraq and Afghanistan).

I’ve received some interesting information that I wanted to share with you about the hype you’ve been hearing about Michael Moore’s movie “Fahrenheit 9/11” and how widespread the distribution of it will be.  Don’t believe the lies.

Michael Moore originally boasted that distributors had secured committments to show “Fahrenheit 9/11” in over 1,000 theaters.

Then he said about 1,000 theaters would show the film.

Then he was down to ‘at least’ 700 theaters would show the film.

Next it was ‘at least’ 500 theaters would show his propaganda.

Well, as of today when I looked up the theaters on his website I got a total of 417.  It seems that the movie theater operators have gotten the message that Michael Moore’s anti-American propaganda, his attacks on our troops, his misleading accounts and distortions are rejected by most Americans.

But we still need more help from you. Pick a theatre in your neighborhood that is showing Farehneit 9/11. Find the e-mail address from the list we’ve provided and let them know what you think of this effort to discredit America’s fight on Radical Islamists. If there isn’t one, pick another and make that small effort to communicate with the corporate moguls who profit from this slur on our families, friends and neighbors who are risking their lives in this battle to keep the rest of us safer. And then forward our website to others who will support us.

And to those of you in northern California, be sure to listen for more updates on “Move America Forward” on our radio program.

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It’s been impossible to miss the media’s obsession with Michael Moore and his new film, “Fahrenheit 9/11” which attacks our troops, the war on terrorism and President Bush.

Moore has recently insulted the airplane passengers of 9/11 ("The kind of people who fly in airplanes want someone else to clean up their mess; that’s why they let hijackers take the plane.  The passengers on September 11 were scaredy-cats, because they were mostly white.") and our troops ("Half the movie is about Iraq – we were able to get film crews embedded with American troops without them knowing it was Michael Moore. They are totally f***ed.”)

Michael Moore has the right to free speech.  He has the right to make this movie.  But, you know what?  We, the American people, have a right to raise our objections to his crass anti-American jihad.

We have a right to tell movie theaters we object to their promoting a movie that is nothing more than a political campaign commercial which should be shown at the Democrat National Convention or as an Al Qaeda training video before it’s shown at our local cinema.

CLICK HERE to STOP Michael Moore

Note:  The response so far has been overwhelming!  Thousands upon thousands of you have already joined this effort.  We’ve had over 350,000 hits to our website in the last 3 days alone - and this has been over a weekend (a time when Internet traffic is usually at it’s lowest).  I also note that we’ve received a handful of emails from those who support Michael Moore who are dismayed that we are speaking up.  I wonder why they are so afraid of the opinion of the American public?