Fw: Fwd: A short poem

[ENRIQUE M LABAO]

Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 4:34 PM

Subject: Fwd: A short poem

 

Please read on and pass along.   As part of the diplomatic community here in Quito, we resent how this was handled.  This could have happened to our dear Ambassador, us or any of our colleagues.
Blessings to all
 

> >> "A bump in the
> >> road" .... remember that
> >> calloused statement? I don't know the author of
> >> this poem. Received it
> >> today. Very thought provoking and poignant. I
> >> do recall, however,
> >> the President referring to the Benghazi incident as
> >> "a bump in the road."
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> >> Today I heard an
> >> ex-Navy Seal being
> >> interviewed on Fox News regarding a book he has written
> >> about how to handle
> >> crisis situations in our lives. At the end of the
> >> interview he asked if
> >> he could make a comment on Benghazi and of course
> >> the anchor said yes.
> >>
> >>
> >> He then thanked Fox
> >> News for keeping the
> >> Benghazi story in the news, since other news
> >> organizations are
> >> not. He said the Seals who died deserve the public
> >> knowing the truth
> >> about the whole affair.
> >>
> >> The following poem
> >> was written by a
> >> MARINE CORPS Officer (ANON):
> >>
> >> THE BATTLING BOYS OF BENGHAZI
> >>
> >>
> >> We're the
> >> battling boys of Benghazi
> >>
> >> No fame, no glory,
> >> no paparazzi.
> >>
> >> Just a fiery death
> >> in a blazing hell.
> >>
> >> Defending our
> >> country we loved so well.
> >>
> >>
> >> It wasn't our
> >> job, but we answered the
> >> call,
> >> fought to the
> >> Consulate and scaled the
> >> wall.
> >> We pulled twenty
> >> Countrymen from the
> >> jaws of fate,
> >> Led them to safety,
> >> and stood at the
> >> gate.
> >>
> >> Just the two of us,
> >> and foes by the
> >> score,
> >> But we stood fast to
> >> bar the door.
> >>
> >> Three calls for
> >> reinforcement, but all
> >> were denied,
> >> So we fought, and we
> >> fought, and we
> >> fought 'til we died.
> >>
> >> We gave our all for
> >> our Uncle Sam,
> >>
> >> But Barack Obama
> >> didn't give a damn.
> >>
> >> Just two dead seals
> >> who carried the load
> >>
> >> No thanks to
> >> us.........we were just
> >> "Bumps In The Road".
> >>
> >> So will this reach
> >> every American with a
> >> computer? I sure hope so. Do not give a pass to the
> >> incompetent people
> >> who literally sat there in the White House and watched the
> >> Seal's execution on
> >> live streaming video and did absolutely nothing? The Obama
> >> Administration
> >> obviously won't be held accountable and w e cannot
> >> accept Hillary Clinton's
> >> statement, "What difference does it make?"
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Please forward this
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