"Taking Chance" Marine Honor Semper Fi

george minze · #1 03-08-2009, 10:32 AM

After passing over the movie "Taking Chance" A movie about the escort of a fallen Marine in 2004 ,Iraq. I was so honored by the movie starring Kevin Bacon that I got a little chocked up. How many times did I fail to switch the channel due to the subject matter. I was wrong! It was my honor and privilege to watch this movie. All those who are veterans should watch it, you won't be disappointed and you will feel the pride of being an American. Each day our young men and women go into harms way. "All Give Some, Some Give All" God Bless America and all real Americans. Most never make the decisions that change the world. Some pay the price for those decisions. Anybody that demeans the memory of those who serve are to be pitied. I pray that all our youth wake up to Patriotism, without it we are doomed to be a God forgotten secular society...With no dreams, no memories, and worst of all No Hope. Chance Phelps L/Cpl. USMC 1984 to 2004. KIA in hostile action as a turret gunner Marine convoy. May he rest in Peace....From a old Marine tough guy that today didn't feel that tough.

george minze · #2 03-08-2009, 10:32 AM

After passing over the movie "Taking Chance" A movie about the escort of a fallen Marine in 2004 ,Iraq. I was so honored by the movie starring Kevin Bacon that I got a little chocked up. How many times did I fail to switch the channel due to the subject matter. I was wrong! It was my honor and privilege to watch this movie. All those who are veterans should watch it, you won't be disappointed and you will feel the pride of being an American. Each day our young men and women go into harms way. "All Give Some, Some Give All" God Bless America and all real Americans. Most never make the decisions that change the world. Some pay the price for those decisions. Anybody that demeans the memory of those who serve are to be pitied. I pray that all our youth wake up to Patriotism, without it we are doomed to be a God forgotten secular society...With no dreams, no memories, and worst of all No Hope. Chance Phelps L/Cpl. USMC 1984 to 2004. KIA in hostile action as a turret gunner Marine convoy. May he rest in Peace....From a old Marine tough guy that today didn't feel that tough.

2000Z-71 · #3 03-08-2009, 10:43 AM

It was an extremely well done film. A lot of similarities between Chance's journey and my cousin's Christopher's. It was hard for me to watch at times but I'm glad I did.

red14 · #4 03-08-2009, 10:57 AM

George,

I know how you feel. I have been coaching youth sports for 30+ years. Many of those 'children' have served our country. One of my 'kids' who played for me is now an asst.coach for my baseball team. He served in Iraq, Marines. He played when he was 4, now he's 27.

I hope this link works from youtube. It is by Lizzie Palmer if it doesn't. Makes me tear up every time.

http://www.youtube.com/v/ervaMPt4Ha0&autoplay=1

george minze · #5 03-08-2009, 01:54 PM

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Originally posted by red14:
George,

I know how you feel. I have been coaching youth sports for 30+ years. Many of those 'children' have served our country. One of my 'kids' who played for me is now an asst.coach for my baseball team. He served in Iraq, Marines. He played when he was 4, now he's 27.

I hope this link works from youtube. It is by Lizzie Palmer if it doesn't. Makes me tear up every time.

http://www.youtube.com/v/ervaMPt4Ha0&autoplay=1

I have been having problems downloading U-Tube

But I couldn't agree more. Ironically we all talk about cops and guns and very few know what it is like to see friends KIA. That goes for all branches of the Military and Law enforcement. In my 70 years I have lost friends in both lines of endeavors. I have heard the pipes a playing more that I like to admit. Every young person that has given all or who's life is a shambles because of freedom is due more than we as a country give. As Stephen Decatur states and I para-phrase." In her intercourse with other nations mat my country be always in the right, right or wrong still my Country" I find the influence of liberal professors frightening and sometimes subversive. We need to look to higher being what ever he is called, and remember the lives lost for the rights of others. When Holder who I have only disdain for stated he finds we have a cowardly presence I want to puke. There standing before the first black president and Holder who is the first black Attorney General. God help us when we forget our country and those who defend it.

red14 · #6 03-08-2009, 04:32 PM

This quote comes to mind;

"Lord forgive them, for they know not what they do".

Many people, who have not served for a higher power, do not recognize honor. There have always been patriots who served, some take them for granted.

RobO · #7 03-08-2009, 05:32 PM

I happened across that movie yesterday morning drinking my morning coffee. Tears were welling up in my eyes for most of the movie. I'm so glad I watched it. Whether you served our country or not (I did not) it is a must see.

Thanks to all who serve and sacrifice.

Mack · #8 03-08-2009, 07:14 PM

This is the only Iraqi movie made so far that has treated our service members with the respect they deserve. It is also the only one to draw any kind of major audience, HBO got it right which is somewhat of a suprise. For those interested here is the orginal article written by LtCol M.R. Stobl.

http://www.blackfive.net/main/...4/taking_chance.html

m.

sipowicz · #9 03-08-2009, 08:01 PM

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Originally posted by Mack:
This is the only Iraqi movie made so far that has treated our service members with the respect they deserve. It is also the only one to draw any kind of major audience, HBO got it right which is somewhat of a suprise. For those interested here is the orginal article written by LtCol M.R. Stobl.

http://www.blackfive.net/main/...4/taking_chance.html

m.

Incredibly moving article...The movie is on tomorrow at 12 noon and I will record it.

george minze · #10 03-09-2009, 06:25 AM

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Originally posted by sipowicz:

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Originally posted by Mack:
This is the only Iraqi movie made so far that has treated our service members with the respect they deserve. It is also the only one to draw any kind of major audience, HBO got it right which is somewhat of a suprise. For those interested here is the orginal article written by LtCol M.R. Stobl.
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Sip and all that read this post! I'm sorry I can't get this out of my mind. It is haunting me. I guess because I came from the Vietnam era. The way our warriors were treated when they came back from a war we could have won, that so many gave their life for. God and Country. Nothing wrong with that, and I pray that we never forget that this country was born in the blood of patriots. Not all wars are popular, not all wars in hind sight were necessary, but tell that to those who are in wheelchairs, and tell that to their family. Go to Arlington and tell that to those who repose there. I still meet guys that left their hopes and dreams in SE Asia, the forgotten, spit on family's picked on. And then I see that godless pastor from Kansas and his foul tongue **** at our hero's funerals. I see a government that wants to treat with those who be-head non believers. And worst of all I see a government here in the good old USA, that sound more like Marxist that patriots, and I wonder how did the greatest generation produce such shallow offspring's? there must be an answer, and we had better find it quick. God take care of those who did give all for US we may not be perfect, but all in all we have been the one shinning light in a screwed up world. Sadly our youth and us in general seem to forget the sacrifices that some of our youth have endured for us. We have some of the forgotten in town. They are here but their souls are still in some jungle far far away. God Bless them, we hung them out, and forgot to bring them back in...Shame on us. Unlike the Spartans of old we do not train our youth in warfare until they are needed and then ask them to lay down their life in some foreign land for somebody' freedom. History the forgotten study! How we need it now, not the revisionist view but the real view...
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http://www.blackfive.net/main/...4/taking_chance.html

m.

Incredibly moving article...The movie is on tomorrow at 12 noon and I will record it.

2000Z-71 · #11 03-09-2009, 10:12 AM

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Originally posted by Mack:
This is the only Iraqi movie made so far that has treated our service members with the respect they deserve. It is also the only one to draw any kind of major audience, HBO got it right which is somewhat of a suprise. For those interested here is the orginal article written by LtCol M.R. Stobl.

http://www.blackfive.net/main/...4/taking_chance.html

m.

HBO carried a documentary film title "Section 60" that was very respectful to the fallen. The film profiled the families of those resting in Section 60 at Arlington and their mourning and rememberance.