Remember our heros
I am skeptical of most things sent to me. More often than most realize, I can verify them as true.
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Semper Fi
Need to check the air filter; dusty in here.
Funny same enviornmental problem at my house.
Yeah, this crappy Reagan-Era building I work in, too much dust.
Have to stop peeling onions when I’m reading these things.
May the road rise to meet LCPL Houck and the wind be always at his back.
Well now I have to get the mop again to mop up the wet floor. Keep thinking that I have enough things to do here then one of these is posted and the floor gets wet again. Rest in peace young fella there are others there to meet you from the past.
My son ships off at the end of the month to Parris Island. He loves the idea of the esprit de corps and being part of something much bigger than himself. I showed him this article and he was quiet for a while, then nodded and said “That’s why I’m joining the Marines”.
You raised him well, Bim. Salute.
That young man was raised well.
Where Do We Get Such Men……………
Rest in eternal peace, LCpl David B. Houck.
Where Do We Get Such Men……………
I ask myself that all the time.
What a Man
Just….damn…. Kids say the darndest things.
Thought pollen season was still six weeks away, polar vortex must of brought it in early.
Thanks Dave.
Thanks for posting these stories.
Rip bud
When I read accounts such as this, I find GEN George Patton’s observation apropos:
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”
Semper Fi, Marine. Enjoy Valhalla.
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This young mans letter immediately made me think of a verse – John 15:13. This young Marine, and all the other service brothers and sisters that have died in action truly are the foundation of our nation that many in our society have forgotten.
I saw that a few days ago and suddenly experienced an allergy attack.
Time to take another antihistamine
Damn you Dustoff, just about the time I get myself and emotions back in check, you got to go and post something like this.
Thanks Brother!
We wouldn’t have known about this were it not for the child’s letter. Makes you wonder how many incidents of such selfless sacrifice go unrecognized. I bet there are a ton.
RIP and Semper Fi.
Yeah, but we all know who Kim Kardashian is.
Sad.
^word^
I’m writing this about ten minutes after I initially read it. At first I was going to write something snarky about the spelling of heroes but by the time I got to the bottom of the post, the tears were flowing freely. RIP LCpl Houck!
The last sentence of the letter is what did it for me. To the young man who wrote this, I would say that being the best person you can be and being considerate of others would be the best thanks that you could offer to LCPL Houck. Words are important, following through with deeds is more so. Now, off to change the filter in the HVAC unit; it seems to be dusty in here.
Ranger that.
Rest well, Marine.
Have a few on the Green…
I did the memorial service for David Houck in Mooresville NC….damn, has it really been 14 years?!?! His family is bonafide “good people”. Father is retired Navy Senior Chief and mother is as sweet as can be. They brought us a sweets tray to the reserve center about a week after memorial and I want to say it was a week BEFORE his internment in Arlington. They had no anger or resentment to the government. Just sorrow at the loss of a young son (Houck also had a child). Ran into them again at a Marine Corps ball commemoration my church did 5 years later and they remembered me. Mama Hawk often “adopts” service members and sends care packages and bibles abroad.
I reached out last year because I am trying to start a scholarship in David and Noah Pier (fallen Marine that came from my recruiting station). Both families are SUPER kind and loving and raised OUTSTANDING young men and were very receptive to keeping their name alive. Truly the best this county has. Ive been to DC twice since Houck has passed. I visit both times. I never met him in person but I miss him everyday.
Nicely done Jay, nicely done indeed.
VOV,
I think the thing that really stuck with me about David is that he was the same age as me. We were born 2 months apart. He’d be MY age today. Talking to his parents, he’d kicked around life before joining the Corps a little later in life. Other than that we had a lot of similarities. In March of 2006, a year and a half after his memorial, we were able to finally present his posthumous Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with Combat V for Valor to his parents.
Noah was the same way. Just a big kid, always full of laughter. Both were great, GREAT young men. Such promise for great thins, whatever they did in life.
Funny thing is (or maybe, not so funny…I dunno). Both are in Arlington. They died about 5 1/2 years apart….and are buried about 2 rows apart.
The scholarship im doing for them. It’s only $500 (i’m funding it myself), it might pay for books for a semester or something….but if it gets a kid to think about these two MEN for a bit and what it took them to do what they did….then it’s money well spent. I think about both of them every day.
What you just said in this answer reinforces my notion that nothing in either Iraq or Afghanistan is worth the price of either of these young men’s lives. Neither of those nations brings anything of value to the world, neither of those nations produces anything beyond misery these days.
One of the grants I was able to receive for some sports related youth programs involved nothing more than relating the benefit of my program to the community along with my status as someone who served during the cold war in a very mild capacity. The fact I was a veteran donating dozens of hours each month to this program was enough to get funding in the tens of thousands.
Reach out to your local police chief, or fire chief or even the mayor’s office in your community. They will often know who in your community represents such a fund and who in your community is involved in distributing philanthropic monies for scholarships or programs.
You might discover you can fund the scholarships in a way you hadn’t considered and in an amount you weren’t thinking possible.
Once you get some basic contact information, let me know if you need some help writing something up, I’d be glad to offer some ideas and AW1ED can connect you with me vial email. No guarantee that this idea works, but funding often comes from sources we weren’t aware of at the time.
VOV,
Appreciate the gouge! Will definitely check that out and be in touch if something comes to fruition. It’s just something that has been on my heart and mind for a few years and im finally in a place where I can do something about it financially, albeit small at first. Got tired of seeing Cardi B, Amy Shumer and their ilk constantly in the headlines and fine young Americans (and so many more just like them)being left by the wayside and forgotten except for those who truly knew them.
I’ll be in touch on this.
May this Country always be worthy of such men.
This makes my eyes wet….