A Young Soldier In Iraq Speaks Out

Subnuts · 07-03-08, 06:45 AM

Hey guys,

It's eight in the morning, I'm drunk, covered in flies, and my landlord keeps slapping me. Can someone confirm to me whether or not this is E-mail I just got is real? Thanks!

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I would like to spend a moment to explain to my fellow Americans the seriousness of the struggle we are currently engaged in.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Ssgt Alan Reynolds
101st Airborne Division
Basra, Iraq

Powerful stuff!

Takeda Shingen · 07-03-08, 07:03 AM

Unless the man in question has access to a time machine, I would say that this is less than genuine. After all, that is Lincoln's Gettysburg Address verbatim.

August · 07-03-08, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Unless the man in question has access to a time machine, I would say that this is less than genuine. After all, that is Lincoln's Gettysburg Address verbatim.

Yeah he could have at least updated it to Eleven score and twelve.

Sailor Steve · 07-03-08, 11:44 AM

Dang! I don't have enough fingers to count that out!
:rotfl:

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07-03-08, 07:03 AM	#2
Takeda Shingen Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2000 Posts: 8,643 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	Unless the man in question has access to a time machine, I would say that this is less than genuine. After all, that is Lincoln's Gettysburg Address verbatim.