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IM 21 YEARS OLD. IM A HOSPITAL CORPSMAN IN THE U.S. NAVY!!! IM MARRIED TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE WORLD AND LIFE COULDNT BE BETTER. I JUST MOVED INTO A HUGE HOUSE IN PENSICOLA FL. I LOVE TO WORK OUT, PLAY XBOX, AND I HAVE NO LIFE OTHER THEN THAT!!!Subject: John GlennThe best speech John Glenn ever made: short and to the point.Some people still don't understand why military personnel do what they do for a living. The following exchange between Senator John Glenn (D -OH) and Senator Howard Metzenbaum (D - OH) is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive and impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one man's explanation of why men and women in the Armed Services do what they do for a living. This IS a typical, though sad, example of what some who have never served think of the Military.Senator Metzenbaum to Senator Glenn: "How can you run for the Senate when you've never held a "real job?"Senator Glenn: "I served 23 years in the United States Marine Corps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the Space Program. It wasn't my checkbook, Howard, it was my Life on the line. It was not a 9 to 5 job, where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank. I ask you to go with me .... As I went the other day .. To a Veterans Hospital and look those men - with their mangled bodies - in the eye, and tell THEM they didn't hold a job! You go with me to the Space Program at NASA and go, as I have gone, to the widows and orphans of Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee .... and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their DADS didn't hold a job. You go with me on Memorial Day and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends buried than I'd like to remember, and you watch those waving flags.You stand there, and you think about this Nation, and you tell ME that those people didn't have a job?I'll tell you, Howard Metzenbaum... you should be on your knees every day of our life thanking God that there were some men - SOME MEN - who held a REAL job. And they required a dedication to a purpose - and a love of country and a dedication to duty - that was more important than life itself. And their self-sacrifice is what made this country possible. I HAVE held a job, Howard! --- What about you?"For those who don't remember - During WW II, Howard Metzenbaum was an attorney representing the Communist Party in the USA. Now he is a Senator!If you can read this, thank a teacher.... If you are reading it in English, thank a VeteranA MAN IS NOT DEAD UNTIL HE IS FORGOTTEN... NEVER FOREGET ...I AM A NAVY CORPSMAN... I POSESS THE STAMINA AND ENTHUSIASM OF YOUTH AND THE WISDOM AND EXPERIENCE OF AN OLD MAN. I AM THREE PARTS DOCTOR, ONE PART NURSE, TWO PARTS MARINE, ONE PART CLERGYMAN, AND TWO PARTS MOM; YET I AM ONE HUNDRED PERCENT SAILOR. I AM UNEMPLOYABLE TO THE CIVILLIAN WORLD IN MY CHOSEN PROFESSION, YET HAVE BEEN THE VERY LIFELINE FOR COUNTLESS MARINES, SAILORS, AND SOLDIERS SINCE 1778. I HAVE CARRIED MARINES FROM THE BATTLEFIELD AND HAVE BEEN REVERENTLY CARRIED MYSELF BY MARINES WHO HAVE MOURNED MY PASSING LIKE THAT OF A BROTHER OR SISTER. I AM YOUNG, I AM OLD, I AM BRAVE, SCARED, AND SCARRED. MY TITLE HAS CHANGED OVER THE YEARS: LOBLOLLY BOY, SURGEONS STEWARD, PHARMACISTS MATE, AND HOSPITAL CORPSMAN. YET WITH ALL THE CHANGES, I AM SIMPLY KNOWN AS "DOC." I HAVE CELEBRATED PEACE, YET FELT THE STING OF WAR ON THE SEAS, IN JUNGLES, DESERTS, CITIES, WASHINGTON D.C., AND ON BEACHES OF EVERY SHADE OF SAND: WHITE, TAN, CORAL, AND BLACK. I HAVE RAISED HELL ON LIBERTY, HOPE IN THE MIDST OF BATTLE, AND A FLAG ON IWO JIMA. WHEREVER MY MARINES HAVE GONE, OLD DOC HAS GONE WITH THEM: PEKING, TRIPOLI, SAIPAN, GUADALCANAL, KOREA, VIETNAM, SOMALIA, AND IRAQ; READY TO ANSWER THE CALL "CORPSMAN UP!" ON THE BATTLEFIELD OR IN THE BARRACKS, ON THE SHIP OR IN THE BAR, I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THERE AND ALWAYS WILL BE. BECAUSE THE WOUNDED MARINE ON THE BATTLEFIELD CALLS OUT FOR THREE THINGS: "GOD, MOM, AND DOC!" AND TO THEM, I'M ALL THREE. ...CORPSMAN UP... In August of 1942, the first major USMC assault landings against the Japanese Empire occurred in the Solomon Islands, Pacific. The island chosen for the invasion was Guadalcanal. As they moved inland, four Marines were walking point into the jungle. Advancing into an open area without cover, they came under heavy fire from the entrenched Japanese. All four Marines were wounded but managed to crawl into a shell crater, about fifty yards from where they had emerged from the jungle. A Hospital Corpsman ran from cover into the crater with the wounded Marines, and ran back to cover, under fire. Having dressed the wounds of the Marine, he sprinted back for another, only this time he was hit. Not stopping to dress his own wounds, he carried the second Marine to cover receiving a second wound. After giving aid to the Marine, the Corpsman was hit for a third time going into the crater. Staggering toward the treeline with the third Marine, he was again struck by enemy fire. When the third Marine's wounds were dressed, the Corpsman started after the last Marine in the crater. The Corpsman still had not stopped to care for his own wounds. In a final valiant effort, he stumbled toward the crater, where he was brought down by concentrated enemy machine gun fire. He lunged forward into the crater falling across the fourth Marine, finally giving up his life. Reaching up to his own bleeding wounds, the Marine wrote on the back of the Corpsman's bullet riddled shirt, "WHERE ANGELS AND MARINES FEAR TO TREAD, THERE YOU'LL FIND A CORPSMAN DEAD." This was that dying Marine's final tribute to his shipmate's supreme sacrifice in fulfilling his oath, "TO AID THE WOUNDED, IN THEIR MOMENT OF NEED
