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General Pace Lays Down His Rank!
10-8 Forums? ^ | 10/01/2007 | Unknown
Posted on 10/18/2007 10:42:42 AM EDT by makoman
This is from the SOA net. I believe that General Pace may have been the finest Chairman of the Joint Chiefs ever. He is certainly one of the finest Marines ever to claim that particular title, and he was sacrificed on the altar of political correctness and expediency.
This is unverified, but no negative Snopes hits on it.
I suspect General Pace would be embarrassed by any attention paid to this act of loyalty. History will debate his effectiveness as CJCS, but their is no debating his decency as a leader.
I wanted to share with you what we saw in Washington DC last week. After the mid-term brief, we toured the Mall and made the usual stops at the WWII Memorial, the Wall, Lincoln Memorial, etc. At the Vietnam Wall we saw something unbelievable.
We noticed three small index cards at the base of the Wall. I knelt down for a closer look and noticed that a 4-star general’s rank was pinned to each card. The cards were personally addressed and said something like:
These are Yours – not mine! With Love and Respect, Your Platoon Leader, Pete Pace
1 Oct
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs had laid down his rank for his boys who died in Nam just the day before! I later found out that 1 Oct was also the same day he stepped down as chairman.
LtCol Lloyd Edwards USMC (Ret
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