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God Bless all Troops fighting for our freedom...

This page is dedicated to all Military personnel, Men and Women from this country or any country that are defending its right to be free. Terrorism, from a minority of people worldwide has to be stopped. Our Military and other Military personnel who are fighting to defend our freedoms are to be commended for their sacrificing, their unselfish call to duty. May God Bless all of them. After posting these pictures of our and other countries military people fighting for OUR freedoms I cannot imagine the suffering they must be going through on a daily basis. As one can see in some of the pictures, even in time of war, there can be moments of caring, love, and concern for others. Once again, may God Bless All of them.

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Iron Mike or Gunny

Leading the fight is Gunnery Sgt Michael Burghardt, known as 'Iron Mike' or just 'Gunny'. He is on his third tour in Iraq He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour. Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US soldiers. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. 'You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision,' he explains. So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term 'the longest walk', stepping gingerly into a 5 foot deep and 8 foot wide crater. The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it . He cut the wire and used his 7 inch knife to probe the ground. 'I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs,' he says. 'That's when I knew I was screwed.' Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet. 'A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded,' he recalls. 'As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me.' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down.' His colleagues cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there. 'My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down,' says Sgt Burghardt. 'I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a real sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher.' He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. I flipped them one. It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week'.' Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit. Sgt Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father, who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam , he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.

Source: http://www.snopes.com/photos/military/burghardt.asp

A Glance In The Past

I thought I would show some past History concerning our country. Some of you may be too young to remember this event. I believe the following pictures are of our country being invaded at Pear Harbor. These pictures were found in a 68 year old Brownie camera that had been overlooked all of these years. They are very graphic and tell a story. Our nations leaders at the time ignored warnings from the country that bombed Pearl Harbor. The rest of what happened is History. Do we ever want to take the chance that something similiar could once again happen to us here in the United States? I don't think so. These pictures were evidentally taken by a member of the branch of service stationed at Pear Harbor which will show up in the LAST picture shown. Here are the pictures taken as a reminder of that sad day so long ago.....