To all of our Armed Servicemembers

[Lee Koepke]

..... especially those that have spent the better part of the last 10 years deployed in the middle east.

Well done, and thank you! :cool:

[Gary Hodgin]

+1 Great News!

[Rick Huelsbeck]

+1 here as well, Thank you from all of us that are safe today because of the sacrifices you fine men and women have made.

[BOB OLINGER]

+1 - We are deeply indebted and grateful for all our service men and women that provide the basis for our freedom and way of American life.

[Greg Peterson]

Thank you for your the dedicated, relentless service. Mission Accomplished.

[sarah schell]

Thank you. It seems so inadequate for all that you give, and we really do appreciate you.

[mickey cassiba]

Add my thanks to all involved! We must remain ever vigilant.

[Pat Germain]

Our nation's finest have taken out the world's worst.

[Jim Koepke]

It's a tough job, thanks for doing it.

jtk

[ray hampton]

many thanks from me

[David Prince]

+1 on the Thanks. I appreciate our service members and those at home protecting our soil.

The service members did what they needed to do and I don't disagree with what was done.

I think it is okay to feel a sense of justice, but it concerns me that people are literally "dancing" in the street in celebration. Bad person or not, it is still the death of a human being.

Are we any better than anyone else if we take pleasure in another's demise?

[Jim Rimmer]

I will add my thanks to all the others for the service our young people give. But also ask for prayers of protection as Al Qaeda and the Taliban will surely seek retribution. God protect them all.

[Pat Germain]

+1 on the Thanks. I appreciate our service members and those at home protecting our soil.

The service members did what they needed to do and I don't disagree with what was done.

I think it is okay to feel a sense of justice, but it concerns me that people are literally "dancing" in the street in celebration. Bad person or not, it is still the death of a human being.

Are we any better than anyone else if we take pleasure in another's demise?

I don't think it's really celebrating the death a person. Rather, it's celebrating the end of a very large evil on a truly global scale. And besides, he was not a human being by any definition in my dictionary.

[Mike Henderson]

..... especially those that have spent the better part of the last 10 years deployed in the middle east.

Well done, and thank you! :cool:
+1 Thanks to everyone who labored all these years to bring Bin Laden to justice.

Mike

[David Prince]

I don't think it's really celebrating the death a person. Rather, it's celebrating the end of a very large evil on a truly global scale. And besides, he was not a human being by any definition in my dictionary.

Dictionary Definition:

human being
n a member of any of the races of Homo sapiens; person; man, woman, or child


Yes, I agree that we can celebrate the end of a very large evil, but dancing in the street to celebrate that? We may not agree with what he has done, but it is not our job to judge his actions. That is reserved for a higher power no matter what power it is that you believe in. (The higher power could be judicial or religious.)

And just to make it very clear, I am an American and agree that it was one of those necessary evils that needed to be dealt with, but taking pleasure in another's demise seems like a greater evil.

[Mike Henderson]

Dictionary Definition:

human being
n a member of any of the races of Homo sapiens; person; man, woman, or child


Yes, I agree that we can celebrate the end of a very large evil, but dancing in the street to celebrate that? We may not agree with what he has done, but it is not our job to judge his actions. That is reserved for a higher power no matter what power it is that you believe in. (The higher power could be judicial or religious.)

And just to make it very clear, I am an American and agree that it was one of those necessary evils that needed to be dealt with, but taking pleasure in another's demise seems like a greater evil.
Whether we like it or not, we have to make judgments about whether another person has committed a crime and how serious that crime is. My judgment is that Bin Laden was especially evil, wishing to bring death to people simply because they did not share his beliefs - men, women, and children, civilian or military - and he did bring death to many. I did not dance in the street but I can understand why people would do so. An especially evil person has been brought to justice and I'm quite happy about it. It is incumbent on society to purge itself of evil, especially the type of evil espoused by Bin Laden.

Mike

[alex grams]

A hearty thanks.

One of the prouder moments of my life was the opportunity to meet Marcus Luttrell and shake his hand and thank him for his service. A true Hero in many senses of the word, and an incredibly tough Navy Seal.

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[Belinda Barfield]

My thanks as well.

"I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." ~ Mark Twain

[Pat Germain]

Dictionary Definition:

human being
n a member of any of the races of Homo sapiens; person; man, woman, or child


Yes, I agree that we can celebrate the end of a very large evil, but dancing in the street to celebrate that? We may not agree with what he has done, but it is not our job to judge his actions. That is reserved for a higher power no matter what power it is that you believe in. (The higher power could be judicial or religious.)

And just to make it very clear, I am an American and agree that it was one of those necessary evils that needed to be dealt with, but taking pleasure in another's demise seems like a greater evil.

Well, that's not from my dictionary. :-)

And I am quite comfortable with celebrating the end of this monster. We, the world community, have judged him evil and he was taken out based on this judgement. What becomes of him in the afterlife is for a higher power to decide. I think it's appropriate to celebrate his demise just as people celebrated the demise of the Axis Powers in the previous century.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Folks,

Lets please stop the one-upmanship arguments. I doubt seriously if you will change each others minds and frankly its off topic for this thread. Please.

[Pat Germain]

I honestly have no idea what you mean by one-upmanship, Ken. But I will try to stay on topic.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

This thread is about thanking those in the military for their service. It is not about any theories about Bin Laden or any form of political discussion.

I would hate to close this thread because certain members can't display a little personal discipline.

[Paul McGaha]

Proud to be an American. Proud of our troops and others. God bless them.

More work to do though.

PHM

[Kent E. Matthew]

Bravo Zulu, USSOCOM (JSOC) Personnel ... *Thank You*

[John Messinger]

Our nation's finest have taken out the world's worst.
Concur, well said. Thank God for the SEALs!

[Joe Chritz]

Are we any better than anyone else if we take pleasure in another's demise?

Yes

How many innocent people from here out won't die because he did? How many soldiers did we lose in fighting to minimize collateral damages? It wouldn't have been difficult to level a six block radius with a couple button pushes.

I agree that any loss of life is a terrible thing, it was of his own making. Staying alive would have been easy for him, don't take up arms against us.

The campaign is far from over. Now is the time to remain vigilant.

Joe

[Bill Clark De]

This news flash
Ben Laden 's last face book entry released."BRB some ones at the door"

[Rod Sheridan]

This news flash
Ben Laden 's last face book entry released."BRB some ones at the door"

Geez Bill, a little warning, I choked so badly on my tea that one of the people in the office next to mine came in to see if I was OK..............Rod.

[Greg Peterson]

Good one Bill. Hilarious!

[Belinda Barfield]

Have any of you had the newest cocktail craze? A Geronimo - two shots and a slight splash.