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What were we fighting for?

9/2/2012

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2/9 0n Operation Hickory
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The pain of losing a buddy is deeper than any wound.

In combat we learned from experience that we were not fighting for glory, we were not fighting for our  individual survival, we were not fighting for abstract concepts like freedom, or capitalism, we were not fighting because of anger or revenge, and we were not fighting
because we were ordered to. We were fighting with and for our brothers in blood, we were fighting to rejoin our families and to provide an opportunity for our mothers to see us again, and we were fighting for the right to be proud of being a Marine. We were not fighting for God, but we all prayed for his intervention on our side and on our behalf. Our fidelity to our country was a given but it was still hard to comprehend how fighting in a distant land was protecting our country. Most of us never gave these issues a second thought

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    Daryl  Eigen served in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967. He was awarded 3 purple hearts for wounds sustained in different battles.

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