The Washington Examiner posted a portion of a speech made by Lt. Gen. John F. Kelly delivered in St. Louis on Nov. 13, four days after his son, Robert M. Kelly, was killed in Afghanistan. The part of his speech that the Washington Examiner published is not about his son--it is about two amazingly courageous American Marines who served their country in Afghanistan. They were standing guard duty when they were killed. Please follow the link and read the entire article. It is amazing.
There is one paragraph I would like to share here:
"I (General Kelly) traveled to Ramadi the next day and spoke individually to a half-dozen Iraqi police all of whom told the same story. They all said, "We knew immediately what was going on as soon as the two Marines began firing." The Iraqi police then related that some of them also fired, and then ran for safety just before the explosion. All survived. Many were injured, some seriously. As one of the Iraqis explained, they had merely done what any "normal man" would do - run for his life. "What I didn't know until then," he said, "and what I learned at that very instant, was that Marines are not normal." Choking past the emotion, he said, "Sir, in the name of God no sane man would have stood there and done what they did. They saved us all.""
God bless the families of those two amazing young men.
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