The Real Story Of Wanat Afghanistan-Thank you Maryann Phillips for forwarding!
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Thank you to Maryann Phillips Soldiers' Angel at Landstuhl for
providing these accounts and being there for the wounded. You are truly
a wonderful angel. Let's get the truth of this out there folks..repost!
"I just hope these guys' wives and their children understand how courageous their husbands and dads were. They fought like warriors."
- SGT Jacob Walker
"It was some of the bravest stuff I've ever seen in my life, and I will never see it again because those guys... well, normal humans wouldn't do that. You're not supposed to do that — getting up and firing back when everything around you is popping and whizzing and trees, branches coming down and sandbags exploding and RPGs coming in over your head... It was a fistfight then, and those guys held ' em off."
- SPC Tyler Stafford
"When you ask for volunteers to run across an open field to a reinforced OP that almost everybody is injured at, and everybody volunteers, it feels good. There were a lot of guys that made me proud, putting themselves and their lives on the line so their buddies could have a chance."
- SSG Jesse Queck
SPC Gunnar Zwilling
All Sky Soldiers of Chosen Company, 2/503 Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team.
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real story is NOT that this was a "base" - it was a small outpost of 45
men surrounded by concertina wire, with a few vehicles and fortified
fighting positions.
The real story is NOT that the outpost was
"overrun" - the truth is that 45 Heroes successfully fought off an
organized attack by hundreds of heavily-armed Taliban and al Queda.
The real story is NOT that the outpost was "abandoned" after the attack - it was a temporary patrol base.
I spent days talking to the wounded paratroopers who were at Wanat during their stay at Landstuhl hospital and can vouch for everything in the following articles:
Interviews with several wounded Soldiers of Chosen Company while at Landstuhl hospital describing the attack.
Multimedia version of above interviews.
Interview with an additional wounded Soldier of Chosen providing further information on the fight.
Interview with the commander of the 173rd ABCT.
An Alamo with a Different Ending:Overwhelmingly Outnumbered Coalition Forces Repel a Complex Attack in NE
Afghanistan
This writeup can be found at my blog here:
http://soldiersangelsgermany.blogspot.com/2008/07/heroes-of-wanat.html
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Mary Ann Phillips
Vice President, Warrior Medical Support Europe
www.soldiersangels.org
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Comments
Now I see it was written in that deceptive way for several reasons. (1) was for a propaganda piece for our enemy. (2) It gave Hussein Obama a pedestal to throw more of his propaganda around. (3) and who knows the rest of the reasons?
I have seen your posts on Dollards. I wondered why you don't have your name at Dollards linked to your blog. Concretebob lead me to your blog.
Well worth the post. Just another case of media bias. But it's par for the course.
again!