CHESTY PULLER

For Memorial Day, 2010: Real America Thanks You!

We Salute You Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Coast Guardsmen —Those Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice and to All Those that Served.

All through-out America’s history, our fighting men and women have given their best for the folks at home. I know I’ve raised holy hell on my blog about the reasons for the latest, but this I do know: You people are in it for us real American citizens and not some elite toad in DC holding dual citizenship with Israel, or some parasite New Yorker wearing an Armani suit — sorry SOBs who never served a day in uniform for America.

You American vets stormed the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima. You froze your rear off in the snows of Bastogne and told the Nazis “Nuts.” You blazed away at Hirohito’s Kamikazes, hell-bent on crashing their planes into your ship. You kicked ass from the Pusan perimeter to the Yalu river. You sweated and cursed a blue streak humping through the steamy jungles of Nam. You fought your way across the streets of Hue and hauled down the enemy’s colors over the Citadel. You blew Hussein’s ”best” to smithereens, left, right and straight ahead of you, on your drive to Baghdad.

Some of you were up front, with your butts on the line 24/7. If others did not experience combat first-hand, you were there, working hard one way or another. None of us — not a single big mouth of any political persuasion, myself included, can ever say a word or take back the honor you so richly deserve or the respect of our nation and the appreciation of all us little people.

So here’s a big toast to you, to the vets of all United States Forces who made the ultimate sacrifice for this nation and all those who served alongside!

And while I’m at it, a big Semper Fi to all you Gyrenes!