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This Webpage is for the Men and Women that has Served & Still Serving overseas
to Protect us and keep us safe!!
Wonderful Country we Call Home!!
These Pictures was back in Feb 2004 to March 2005

Thank you Sooo Much for your Service, You ARE Our Hero to us all!!

This is moving and very proud. God bless our troops,

May God's angels wrap the in their protective wings an keep them safe..

How Marines say good bye....
Fare Well Marine final good bye.swf

His office is much different from ours. Just a reminder of why we are here.
AWESOME! Read below the picture before making judgment on "The Finger" gesture.

SEMPER FI !

Leading the fight is Gunnery Sgt. Michael Burghardt, known as "Iron Mike" or just "Gunny". He is on his third tour in Iraq.
He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour.
Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US soldiers. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit.
"You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision," he explains. So, protected by just a helmet and = standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term "the longest walk", stepping gingerly into a 5ft deep and 8ft wide crater. The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his 7inch knife to probe the ground.
"I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs," he says. "That's when I knew I was screwed." Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet.
"A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded," he recalls. "As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me.' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down." His colleagues cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there.
"My dad is aVietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down," says Sgt Burghardt. "I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that.
They started to cut away my pants and I felt a real sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' "As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. "I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher.
" He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. "I flipped them one. It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week!" Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col John Gronski, The brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit. Sgt Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father - who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam - he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.

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Hell Yeah!

TYSM Mr. =PAWG=Gunny-Hiway For this Powering
And Moveing Story of this Hero to us All!!
TY!! recieved 9/30/07

Iraq War - A Soldier's Ballad

Memorial Day 2006 - The Endless Funeral Procession

Tribute to Canadians in Afghanistan

Tribute To Canadian Soldiers

Australian Army
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihgjy_AiJHk

Iraq Night With a AH-64 Apache

Australian Defence Force

Mr. =PAWG=Gunny-Hiway Sent this to Me TYSM Sir HOOAH!
This is a Tribute to all Men and Women that has Served in
Vietnam War and also our Currant War in Gulf War
Our Hearts and Prayers go out to everyone of yall and yalls
Familys and the Men and Women that has
Faught side by side with you!!
PLEASE HURRY HOME
GOD BLESS You All!!

TYSM =PAWG=sailor446 For this Great Video!!

"If You're Reading This"
AMAZING by Tim Mcgraw
TYSM DELTA=2LT=Fillmore
for the Link TY!!
http://df.50webs.com

If anyone that has Served or still Serving in the Armed Forces
Plz Email Me
I will post your Pics here!!