'Where Do They Get Young Men Like This?'

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'Where Do They Get Young Men Like This?'
Military blogger L.T. Smash recounts a televised vignette that requires no further comment:

Martin Savidge of CNN, embedded with the 1st Marine battalion, was talking with 4 young Marines near his foxhole this morning live on CNN. He had been telling the story of how well the Marines had been looking out for and taking care of him since the war started. He went on to tell about the many hardships the Marines had endured since the war began and how they all look after one another.

He turned to the four and said he had cleared it with their commanders and they could use his video phone to call home.

The 19 year old Marine next to him asked Martin if he would allow his platoon sergeant to use his call to call his pregnant wife back home whom he had not been able to talk to in three months. A stunned Savidge who was visibly moved by the request shook his head and the young Marine ran off to get the sergeant.

Savidge recovered after a few seconds and turned back to the three young Marines still sitting with him and asked which one of them would like to call home first, the Marine closest to him responded with out a moments hesitation "Sir, if is all the same to you we would like to call the parents of a buddy of ours, Lance Cpl Brian Buesing of Cedar Key, Florida who was killed on 3-23-03 near Nasiriya to see how they are doing."

At that Martin Savidge totally broke down and was unable to speak. All he could get out before signing off was "Where do they get young men like this?"

[1IDVET]

Hooah!
Good men!

[philly]

Our beautiful men. God bless them.

hooah!!

[nang]

Man, I got something in my eye again. God love these brave men.
Hooah indeed

[DMZ-LT]

Me to nang. They are our children. I am very proud of you and your son. Thank you.

[reconeil]

Plus, I must have developed the very same eye problem.
Didn't think it possible to catch anything over a computor?

Neil

[catman]

Neil...lots of that going round, must be a new kind of virus!

Trav

[sn-e3]

God its good to know that another generation has stepped up to the plate and are smacking home runs left and right. I'm so proud of all our men and women in uniform thank you Men and Women of the armed forces

[Keith_Hixson]

A couple of kids from our church over there . . . .

Deployed they call it. A helicopter pilot, a marine, a couple of air force kids. All of them are just great kids. So far so good. My fly fishing buddy's Son flies rescue helicopter for the Airforce. Everytime a copter crashes it sure puts the worry on him.

There are some great kids in the new generation.

Keith

[phuloi]

Makes my heart want to burst with pride.U-S-A U.S.A!