Re: THANK YOU to all veterans.

At 02:50 PM 5/28/2006, Pim van Meurs wrote:

>Is this spam really necessary Janice?

@ I can 100% assure you that the American
veterans and their families, friends, and
supporters on this list don't view this "THANK YOU" as "spam".

>If so "bring 'em home" so to speak

@ Those fearful individuals who choose to
insulate themselves from reality aren't
emotionally equipped to admit that freedom is not
free. Arrogant elites condescendingly speak of
these ADULT MEN in the armed forces ----- who
have VOLUNTEERED to serve their country ----- as if they are little children.

Those adult men are on a mission and they don't
want to come home until the mission is complete. Got it??

I support them and their mission.
http://www.gcsdistributing.com/?pv=tr&tf=TDP&DT=SH

So does this man:

Larry Schweikart, a professor of history at the University of Dayton.
New book, America's Victories: Why the U.S. Wins
Wars and Will Win the War on Terror.

Out May
18.
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595230211/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_2/103-1558103-2102203?%5Fencoding=UTF8>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595230211/ref=pd_ecc_rvi_2/103-1558103-2102203?%5Fencoding=UTF8

I argue that the U.S. has seven major distinctive
traits that makes the American military the best
in the world. Suffice it to say, the Left is NOT
going to like some of these traits, and, hence, will not like this book. "

 From Amazon.com

Book Description
 From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror,
the American military has consistently beaten the odds. It's not luck.

America's armed services are under attack. From
college campuses to the floor of the Senate, the
Iraq war is portrayed as a quagmire, the Army is
described as "broken," and our men and women in
uniform are maligned as torturers. Hollywood
keeps producing anti-war films, and the media
celebrates liberal anti-military activists such
as Cindy Sheehan. These critics fail to
understand the real nature of the American
military. By seeing everything through the
distorted lens of Vietnam ­ a war shrouded in
harmful myths â—they have lost sight of our
country's real military record, and the factors
that have enabled us to win with remarkable
consistency, in situations even more dire than
Iraq. In America's Victories, Professor Larry
Schweikart restores the truth about our amazing
military heritage. Just as he did in his
acclaimed previous book, A Patriot's History of
the United States, Professor Schweikart cuts
through the distortions passed along by academia and the media.

Why do Americans win wars, and why is it all but
certain we will win the War on Terror? The
biggest answer is that, far from being a cruel,
bloodthirsty nation, eager to acquire other
people's resources, we value the sanctity of life
more than any military culture in history.

This fundamental trait has led, over the last two
centuries, to more humane treatment of prisoners,
more daring POW rescues, and more effective
operations than any comparable power. The
American military has also benefited from a
combination of other virtues: the ability to
learn from losses and mistakes; the unique
autonomy entrusted to our troops; and,
ironically, the constant improvements forced by anti-war protestors.

When coupled with an unmatched free-market
economy, America's fighting forces are fearsome.
America's Victories explains how this culture of
victory has endured through the darkest moments
of World War II, Korean, and Vietnam, and how it
has helped our troops prove their critics wrong
over and over, from the Battle of New Orleans
under Andrew Jackson to the war in Afghanistan
under Tommy Franks. Among the book's many revelations, you'll learn:

* How the military since the time of the
Revolution has constituted an incredible "melting
pot" of ethnicities and social classes, creating
a culture blind to origins, but open to talent and desire.

* How the Higgins Boat (key to the success of
D-Day) and the Jeep (the backbone vehicle of
World War II) were created by American
entrepreneurs, not central planners, and how our
economic capacity buried the Axis powers.

* Why Abu Ghraib does NOT contradict our respect
for individual human life, including our
exceedingly humane treatment of prisoners of war,
and how a better example of Americans' view of
prisoners is the POW rescue at Canabantuan.

* How anti-war protestors, by emphasizing "body
bags," have led our military inexorably toward
more efficient operations that minimize casualties.

* How Americans (not the French) put into
practice Napoleon's maxim that "every soldier
carries a Marshal's baton in his knapsack," and
made our front line troops the most autonomous fighters in history.

Professor Schweikart acknowledges America's
blemishes and weak moments, but also exposes the
deep-seated anti-American bias of the Left. Based
on the lessons of history, he concludes that we
will win the War on Terror, through a weapon more
powerful than any bomb or rocket: our unique military culture.

About the Author
Larry Schweikart is the co-author of A Patriot's
History of the United States: From Columbus's
Great Discovery to the War on Terror, and is a
professor of history at the University of Dayton.
He has written more than 20 books on national
defense, business, and financial history.

~ Janice

>Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>THANK YOU to all veterans.
>http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1639737/posts
Received on Sun May 28 15:35:21 2006