RE: Anniversary of 9/11
September 13, 2024 at 2:56 am
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2024 at 3:39 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Well...I was an in-country trainer. A real grimy motherfucker. Urban infantry. On 9/11 shit became about revenge. I'm not about revenge.
-did youngsters join for different and harder reasons....yes, and I failed most of them. I failed some of them so hard they're dead - to my eternal shame. Rightly or wrongly, if I'd spent a few more minutes training them and fewer minutes getting fucked up and having fun...they'd still be alive.
To be clear, what I knew from the moment and morning of 9/11 is that someone....anyone...would have to pay the iron price for what had happened. Did I believe that the people responsible would shoulder the cost? In a word..no.
Before 9/11 I was a peacekeeper. After 9/11 I was a warfighter. No one consulted me about that shift.
-did youngsters join for different and harder reasons....yes, and I failed most of them. I failed some of them so hard they're dead - to my eternal shame. Rightly or wrongly, if I'd spent a few more minutes training them and fewer minutes getting fucked up and having fun...they'd still be alive.
To be clear, what I knew from the moment and morning of 9/11 is that someone....anyone...would have to pay the iron price for what had happened. Did I believe that the people responsible would shoulder the cost? In a word..no.
Before 9/11 I was a peacekeeper. After 9/11 I was a warfighter. No one consulted me about that shift.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
