Comments about ‘Marines make emotional return to Camp Williams’

Welcome home and thank you for your service.

Glad you are safely back Devil Dogs - I have a son who was over there 3 times.

Sometimes words cannot do justice for the feelings we have. Thank you is the way that we tell others of our gratitude for what they have done, but in special circumstances our words are only the beginning. We must always say thank you for great service and sacrifice rendered, but our deepest appreciation must always be shown in our actions. Now that these great soldiers have finished their service, let us show our appreciation by living, loving and serving those near us, the same way they did while so far away.
THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!!

Se the picture of Staff Sgt. Mike Johnson. I believe his next mission for the good of our nation is to be a father to that son.

If you wonder why we can't just dump troops on our border, its not that simple. Deployments involve people like Mike.

These news reports always leave out whether the deceased were gung-ho for the war, or against it. These reports always make me think of Pat Tillman (he was the NFL football player who left behind a multi-million dollar contract to sign up for the Army after 9/11 . . . . except after 2 tours in Iraq, he turned against that war (disgusted with the sheer number of civilian deaths), then they sent him to Afghanistan and he turned against THAT war, and then he was killed . . . . and it later turned out that his fellow soldiers had killed him (they took his body armor off and burned it) and now the US Congress is investigating it as murder.

Were these two guys in today's report believe in the war??? And if so, why? Thanks in advance to anybody that knows.

To authorized user 12:24pm.: These two Marines believed in their country. They volunteered right out of Mountain View High School to serve in the USMC. Lcpl Nigel Olsen had wanted to be in the military since he was a toddler. Lcpl Carlos Aragon had a very high regard for the military, as well. When a person joins the military, they take an oath to defend and to serve where assigned. Too many may forget that we are in Afghanistan because the Twin Towers in NYC, the Pentagon, and the innocent lives lost in a farmer's field in Pennsylvania happened on September 11, 2001 and we are countering terrorism. We are trying to get rid of the bad guys that attacked us. To show honor and let their families know that they did not lay their lives down in vain, support the Enduring Freedom Memorial Scholarship fundraiser on Monday at 11am - 2pm at Orem City Park, Center Street or contribute at any Zion's Bank. We can show respect for thier

...... (cont)We can show respect for their service by showing their surviving families our support, even if some disagree.

@ Thanks is not enough | 9:21 a.m. May 30, 2010

"Sometimes words cannot do justice for the feelings we have. Thank you is the way that we tell others of our gratitude for what they have done, but in special circumstances our words are only the beginning ....."

AMEN !

To give the marines of C Co. their due, this was actually the fourth combat deployment. The first was the first Gulf War, the second to Iraq in 2003, and then the two referenced in the article.