Posted by
INTHENOW on Saturday, March 21, 2009 5:10:47 PM
Dear Sen. Murtha,
Congratulations on your recent award. I wanted to send this salutation to you directly, but your website only accepts emails from your home state. So instead I’ll post here, and perhaps someone from Pennsylvania will do me the favor.
As a 52 year-old vet of two branches of service, I’d thought I’d pretty much seen it all. However, the past 60 days, and most recently, your award have reminded me that I still have much to learn from an ever changing world.
Were you really a Marine senator? Did you suffer the trials and tribulations of Parris Island? Of combat? Did you forge the bonds of brotherhood with your fellow warriors? If so, what happened?
How did you end up going from one of the few…the proud, to the embodiment of everything that is wrong with this country? How in God’s name did you arrive to this place?
I’m not angry with you sir…I tamed my ego long ago. I am however bewildered, disheartened, and terribly sad that a fellow Marine and brother in arms could stray so far.
You betrayed the one group of people on this earth that would have risked their life to pull your dead body from the battlefield. There is no stronger bond…and you shattered it, and then urinated on it. I hope God forgives you, because I doubt the Marines will.
Please pardon me if I don’t trust you enough to divulge my name, but that last place I want to be is in the crosshairs of a traitor.
Congratulations again.
Anonymous
USMC 74-76, USAF 85-05