Dear American Soldier:

[thedrifter]

Dear American Soldier:

I am Michelle Malkin. You don't know me, but I know
who you are and I will not ever forget.

You are deploying from Fort Carson and Fort Hood and
Fort Bliss and Fort Stewart. You hail from Middletown
and Middleboro and Greenville and Redding and Thousand
Oaks and Maple Tree. You are white, black, brown, and
yellow-but always Americans first.

You are with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team and the 10th
Combat Support Hospital and the 571st Air Ambulance
Medical Evacuation Company. You are with the 1st
Cavalry Division and the 3rd Infantry Division and the
"Iron Horse" 4th Infantry Division. You are Black
Knights with the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment.
You are engineers, drivers and medics in the 13th
Corps Support Command.

Your motto is "We Will," "Steadfast and Loyal," "Swift
and Deadly," "Always Prepared," "First to Fight," and
"No Task Too Tough." You will be joined overseas by
thousands of sailors and Marines on the USS Boxer and
USS Bonhomme Richard and USS Cleveland and USS Dubuque
and USS Anchorage and USS Comstock and USS Pearl
Harbor. You will get support in Iraq from an airborne
infantry brigade, a squadron of F-117 Nighthawk
stealth fighters, and two squadrons of F-16CJ
radar-jamming
fighters.

You have friends on the USS Constellation in the
Persian Gulf, and the USS Harry S Truman in the
Mediterranean Sea, and the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln
stationed at Perth, Australia, and the USNS Yano en
route to the Red Sea, and the aircraft carrier USS
Carl Vinson on its way to a training mission in the
Pacific.

You have classmates and colleagues and cousins who
died at the Pentagon and in the Twin Towers on
September 11, 2002. You have buddies who took bullets
over the past year in Afghanistan and Kuwait and the
Philippines during Operation Enduring Freedom. You
have uncles and brothers and fathers and grandfathers
who sacrificed their lives in past wars. Their deaths
haunt you. Their heroism inspires you. Their footsteps
and footprints beckon and you cannot resist.

You have wives and husbands who are tough as nails and
are enormously proud of you. You have toddlers who
know the colors of the American flag and
grade-schoolers who have memorized Army verses like
these:
The hardest job, the dirtiest job
Since ever war began
Is picking 'em up and laying 'em down
The job of an infantryman

No mission too difficult
No sacrifice too great
Our duty to the nation
Is the first we're here to state

Our doughboys come from Brooklyn
Our gunners from Vermont
Our signals from Fort Monmouth
Our engineers DuPont

Against the foes of freedom
We fight for liberty
We make no peace with tyrants
On land or on the sea

As you pack your green Army duffel bags, press your
desert camouflage fatigues,
polish your boots and kiss your families good-bye,
please take these words with you: Thank you.
Thank you for answering the call to arms.
Thank you for being fit and young and brave and
willing.
Thank you for loving freedom enough to put your own
life on the line to defend it.

Pay no attention to Sean Penn and Sheryl Crow and
Baghdad Babs. Tune out the half-naked loonies and
Flower Power leftovers. Stand tall. Fight hard. And
know that there are legions of Americans who are
boundlessly grateful for what you have volunteered to
do.

We know who you are. We will not forget. And we will
pray every day for your safe return.


Sempers,

Roger

[JeffL]

Since I first saw Michelle Malkin on TV, I have admired her. She has a very strong opinion concerning illegal aliens in and entering this country.

http://www.michellemalkin.com/bio.html