This Will Only Take

7 Replies to “This Will Only Take”

1. links’ dead….6:45 p.m. Sunday

2. Looks like it’s not just the link itself. All of blogspot appears to be down.

3. I’ve updated it with a direct link.

4. Kate
   I have down loaded it successfully but cant play it

5. man, that was heartwarming…..soldiers are real people, with feelings, and always the last one’s who want to go to war…but once we are there, please let them get the job done….we need a video for the CAF……GO ARMY

6. Yes, heartwarming. I choked up when I realized the lady at the beginning is now a widow, talking about her hero soldier husband.
   I don’t think people like Jack Layton, Ted Kennedy, Cindy Sheehan can even comprehend these soldiers’ thinking and values. Duty, honor, country.
   To all those soldiers, past and present, thank you for my freedom.

7. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, law enforcement officials report that the military is now “allowing more applicants with gang tattoos because they are under the gun to keep enlistment up.” They also note that “gang activity may be rising among soldiers.” The paper was provided with “photos of military buildings and equipment in Iraq that were vandalized with graffiti of gangs based in Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities.”
   Last month, the Sun-Times reported that a gang member facing federal charges of murder and robbery enlisted in the Marine Corps “while he was free on bond — and was preparing to ship out to boot camp when Marine officials recently discovered he was under indictment.” While this particular recruit was eventually booted from the Corps, a Milwaukee Police Detective and Army veteran, who serves on the federal drug and gang task force that arrested the would-be Marine, noted that other “[g]ang-bangers are going over to Iraq and sending weapons back… gang members are getting access to military training and weapons.”
   Earlier this year, it was reported that an expected transfer of 10,000-20,000 troops to Fort Bliss, Texas caused FBI and local law enforcement to fear “a turf war” between “members of the Folk Nation gang…[and] a criminal group that is already well-established in the area, Barrio Azteca.” The New York Sun wrote that, according to one FBI agent, “Folk Nation, which was founded in Chicago and includes several branches using the name Gangster Disciples, has gained a foothold in the Army.”
   Another type of “gang” member has also begun to proliferate within the military, evidently thanks to lowered recruitment standards and an increasing urge by recruiters to look the other way. In July, a study by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks racist and right-wing militia groups, found that — due to pressing manpower concerns — “large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists” are now serving the military. “Recruiters are knowingly allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join the armed forces and commanders don’t remove them from the military even after we positively identify them as extremists or gang members,” said Scott Barfield, a Defense Department investigator quoted in the report.
   The New York Times noted that the neo-Nazi magazine Resistance is actually recruiting for the U.S. military “urg[ing] skinheads to join the Army and insist on being assigned to light infantry units.” As the magazine explained, “The coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman’s war… It will be house-to-house… until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and ‘cleansed.'”
   Apparently, the recruiting push has worked. Barfield reported that he and other investigators have identified a network of neo-Nazi active-duty Army and Marine personnel spread across five military installations in five states. “They’re communicating with each other about weapons, about recruiting, about keeping their identities secret, about organizing within the military.” Little wonder that “Aryan Nations graffiti” is now apparently competing for space among American inner-city gang graffiti in Iraq.
   The Army has even looked behind prison bars for fill-in recruits — in one reported case, a “youth prison” in Ogden, Utah. Although Steven Price had asked to see a recruiter while still incarcerated and was “barely 17 when he enlisted last January,” his divorced parents say “recruiters used false promises and forged documents to enlist him.” While confusion exists about whether the boy’s mother actually signed a parental consent form allowing her son to enlist, his “father apparently wasn’t even at the signing, but his name is on the form too.”
   So what are they gonna do with their new found talents at home and what about all those weapons that went missing, the new weapons the Iraqi army was suppose to get?