Thread: Stars and nights....................

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject: Stars and nights....................

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I lay down in the prone position in the sandy dunes overlooking an illegal hotspot along the CA/MEX border. Doing this brings back vivid memories of a hard-nosed D.I. at a place called "Sand Hill", Ft. Benning, GA. I can still hear his husky voice:" Keep your butt down or it will get shot off someday. That day is now.

I long for those days, when our mission was well defined, immediate and honorable.

I click on my ancient PVS-5A's or Alphas as we called them back in the mid 80's. Ranger school is hard, but I somehow manage to complete my assigned tasks. I draw my strength and tenacity from my buddies, it is an understanding and brotherhood that is hard to define or even explain to "civilians".

Then, like a flash of light I glimpse towards the heavens, the PVS-5A's brilliantly illuminate every star that shines in the Milky Way, our galaxy, our home, for eons. I wonder if the Dinosaurs saw the same flashing constellations?

I peer back into my "night-finders", off in the distance they appear, like neon-green apparitions, groups of 5 to 6, men and women scurrying across the desert floor, What are they thinking?, Why do they continue to come?, I think to myself.

I glance at my watch, it's 02:30 in the morning or "zero-dark-one-hundred, as we used to say long ago, when I was a soldier. I long for those days, I miss my buds. I continue this non-sense for another hour or so, then I make the call, charlie-sierra-foxtrot, reporting another sighting, it's exciting, an overwhelming sense of patriotism beats like loud thunder in my heart.

I am just an American Patriot doing what he feels is right. What is truly the American thing to do................


TS77

TS77

Good article Tallsoldier, and welcome!
Its good to have more patriots on board.

Just finished reading a long post on the insane situation some border patrol agents go through and now this post by you Tallsoldier. I too want to welcome you and thank you for that moving story and your hard work.

Great post Tall.
Watch out for those rattlesnakes though.

I am just an American Patriot doing what he feels is right. What is truly the American thing to do................

Amen Tallsoldier, amen! The truly American thing to do...