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Marine Lance Cpl. Edward Schroeder, left, and Lance Cpl. Christopher Dyer, far right, and unidentified Marines patrol through the city of Kubaysah in 2005 in western Iraq.
Dyer and Schroder, members of 1st Squad, 3rd Platoon, Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Regiment, were killed, along with nine other members of 1st Squad, in a roadside bombing near the city of Haditha on Aug. 3, 2005. This picture was provided by Capt. Christopher Toland, 3rd platoon commander.
FORWARD OBSERVATIONS
Justice In Washington, D.C.
From: Mike Hastie
To: GI Special
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 5:56 PM
Subject: Justice In Washington, D.C.
This was the first thing I wrote when I got back from D.C.
I am still vibrating from it all.
I had a verbal hand-to-hand encounter with a group of about ten Bush supporters. I had my vet jacket on with some trimmings, and they accused me of getting everything off of E-bay. They told me I could take my Bronze Star off, throw it in the toilet, and piss on it.
At that point, 58,000 dead American soldiers came out of me, and I gave them a history lesson about what Their Government did to civilian populations in Vietnam. I felt like an artist with a finely tuned verbal pen. When I got through, I am sure some of them had shit in their pants.
When I walked away, some other guy over heard our conversation, and accused me of supporting the terrorists. I got into his face, and said, " Have you ever seen a dead American soldier?" As we walked side by side, I kept repeating what I said over and over again. Finally, he ran up to a cop, and said, " This guy is crazy."
The cop said nothing to me.
I can’t believe how ignorant Bush supporters can be. When this guy got confronted by the genuine item, who was there, he folded like a chicken hawk.
As veterans, we have far more power than we think.
People who support this insane war, have no idea where we come from.
Once they get into the lions den with us, they fold like an envelope.
Justice, ladies and gentlemen, JUSTICE.
Before I left Washington, D.C., I went over to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and touched a few names who I saw die in Vietnam.
Those names spoke to me through my fingers, and they said, "Tell The Truth."
And, that is what I did the whole time I was in Washington, D.C."
There is no rest for the messenger, until the message has been delivered."
Mike Hastie
Vietnam Veteran
October 2, 2005
P.S. While I was there, I took 1,600 pictures, 2 hours of digital video, and 2 hours on a tape recorder. Just in case someone says I was never there.
Forum posts
5 October 2005, 21:02
Thank you for speaking the truth, Mr. Hastie. Now would you go to the weblog called shotinthedark and post the same message? The readers there are delusional about war. I suspect not one of them knows what it is really about.