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A Pre-Christmas Visit to Camp Pendleton
Thanking those about to deploy to Afghanistan.
Thursday
A dreary, cold day in Southern California. My pal Lisa Agustsson and I drove down the 405 Freeway to the 5, immense ten lane highways most of the way, to Camp Pendleton, the major Marine Corps base on the West Coast. I had been invited to appear and meet and greet Marines attached to a rocket artillery battalion about to deploy to Afghanistan.
We went through the guard gate, were met by a man in a huge truck, and escorted many miles inside the base to a large hangar-like structure gaily hung with balloons and a cheery Santa Claus and many young men with mostly short hair, including some who were having a rock-climbing competition as we pulled up.
The men were muscular and fit looking with no exceptions — lean, intense, alert. Most were in civilian clothes, even T-shirts with rock group characters on them. There were pretty young wives, many with small children, many pregnant. I was greeted by several women from the huge Saddleback Church. They were the organizers of the event and they had invited my appearance. They could not have been more enthusiastic.
Glad-hander that I am, I started immediately greeting as many men and women as wanted to greet me, which was pretty much all of them. I posed for pictures with them, asked them where they were from, told them of various connections I have or my wife has with their part of the world.
They were from small towns in Missouri, small towns in Wisconsin, small towns in Colorado, small towns in New Mexico, in Mississippi. There were also many from East L.A., happy to get away from the gangs, many from parts of New York City, even one young officer from Spring Valley, an extremely upscale part of Washington, D.C. (“The Marine Corps attracts all kinds of people,” he said happily.)
They had the kinds of faces you used to see in Jimmy Stewart movies, all-American faces, white, brown, black, Asian, but all smiling, all eager to do something for their country. They did not have the kind of conniving, weasel-like faces I usually see around me in Beverly Hills. They looked like straight shooters, in a word. I guess they are, since every Marine is a rifleman.
I asked each of them if he would be deploying for Afghanistan soon. With only one or two exceptions, they all said they would, and usually said it as in, “I hope so, sir.” They said it like they meant it.
Several of them explained to me the rockets they would be firing. These were little devils that could go about fifty miles and hit a target without ten feet with a large explosive charge. They use satellites and drones and computers and I am glad it’s our side that has them and not the Taliban.
After about an hour, I went inside the hangar or whatever it was. Hundreds more Marines and their wives or girlfriends greeted me and told me how eager they were to be deployed — although the wives looked a bit less eager than the husbands. (Later that night Lisa told me that a wife told her she could not sleep at night worrying about her husband.)
I gave a short little speech about how they were where the rubber meets the road in saving freedom and dignity. It may be agony for Mr. Obama to decide what to do in Afghanistan, but it is these men and their families whose lives are on the line. I told them that we back at home sitting in chairs with our fat asses could not survive without them and that we thanked them, asked God’s blessing for them, prayed for them.
I talked to still more people, ate some turkey that a local church had prepared for this large group, and then, thoroughly chilled, went off into the night back to Los Angeles.
We had a driver so I slept most of the way back. But when I awakened near Long Beach, I saw immense waves of cars and their lights rushing towards me like a scene in a movie of a spaceship rocketing towards a cluster of stars. There were thousands of cars, tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands. And in the rest of the nation, hundreds of millions more.
A whole nation. Three hundred million plus souls. All rushing around making a living, taking their kids to soccer games, buying groceries, getting and spending.
And in this little corner of Camp Pendleton were the men and women who make it all possible, about to go fight in a horrible place called Afghanistan. Not one of the men or women I spoke to tonight ever mentioned the stock market or real estate or the dollar or commodities or a stimulus package. Not one of them complained to me about anything. It was probably the longest time I have ever been in a crowd where not one person mentioned money. Maybe it’s because they know that what they do is beyond price. Back to sleep and then I awakened as we got close to home.
I passed many Christmas decorations as we got off the 405 and headed east on Santa Monica Boulevard. The thought came to my old head that I had just seen the best Christmas group I have ever seen: men and women who so love their fellow man that they are cheerfully and eagerly going off to risk their lives to save total strangers. These really are the peacemakers. These really are the blessed of the earth, the gifts from God. If we have any decency at all, these men and their families take our gratitude and our prayers with them with every step they take. Merry Christmas, Camp Pendleton, and all who serve to save.
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Ben Stein is a writer, actor, economist, and lawyer living in Beverly Hills and Malibu. He writes “Ben Stein’s Diary” for every issue of The American Spectator.
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Marc Jeric| 12.14.09 @ 7:08AM
Yes, Sir, Mr. Steyn - you said it. When I hear the offensive nonsense sputterings of a non-entity like Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi who are fiddling with our future - I just shudder.
Gerald Stephens| 12.14.09 @ 8:00AM
BEN STEIN...
A first among equals. Surely his invitation to appear for an audience of Marines above all alternate choices speaks volumes.
The Nation was blessed from its outset with men and women of intellect almost beyond explanation.
I suspect Ben Stein, AMERICAN was invited by those contemporary warriors for the same reasons the country's first at arms chose Washington.
Gerald Stephens
Hartford, CT
Richard Baker| 12.14.09 @ 8:06AM
These Marines are going "In Harm's Way" as John Paul Jones said. Thank God we have such in our society.
Gerald Stephens| 12.14.09 @ 8:06AM
TO THE WARRIORS...
Ssmper Fi
Stephens -1693946Gerald Stephens
Stephanie| 12.14.09 @ 8:13AM
Thank you Ben Stein, for putting things back in perspective for me this morning. Thank you.
Ken (Old Texican)| 12.14.09 @ 8:15AM
Ben,
Thank you for giving them a handshake from me and mine.
You Marines,
Thank you, and God's speed.
Stephanie| 12.14.09 @ 8:16AM
And Thank You to the warriors and your families for your sacrifice.
Melvin| 12.14.09 @ 8:27AM
How many of here who post on American Spectator were once those young men, waiting in aircraft hangers and sitting on naval piers all over the world waiting to deploy to a land we couldn't even pronounce.
Sometimes when I reflect and my wife of whom I dragged all over the world with me for all those years, knows intuitively when I stare up in the sky like a lost puppy at the Marine Osprey's flying over in formation, whispers to me, "Dear, you've been to your war, now this one is they're s ."
I let sigh and resolve myself to the fact that she is right, but it doesn't make it any easier, and I think to myself, "Damn I wish I could be up there with them again."
So I give a quiet greeting to those fellow Marines who are setting sail to deploy, "Fair Winds and Following Seas my Brothers, and Sisters, and for God's sakes, be careful out there."
joe | 12.17.09 @ 6:08AM
...me..too. Too old to go, too slow to flow, been there you know.
Thanks, Ben. And, in my day, Wayne Newton who dragged his butt across the ocean to perform on my carrier many years ago.
I wish I could be there with them now, these bright faced young people who hold our future in their hands. Instead, I'm going to one of the support websites and send a care package. I hope everyone does that as their way of saying Merry Christmas to the warriors who protect us.
Sir| 12.14.09 @ 8:53AM
Semper Fi.
Oorah.
I love the U. S. Marines. They're the most good and noble bunch to walk the earth since Christ Himself.
I, too, am glad they're on my side.
Paul D| 12.14.09 @ 9:44AM
Oh yeah. I'd do it again.
Ned| 12.14.09 @ 9:49AM
Melvin, I was once one of those young men waiting at Camp Pendleton to deploy overseas. Now I have a son and son-in-law in the National Guard who have been told they will probably go in 2011. I have a step-son who also serves in the military. I am very proud of them and dare say I would give my left nut to be with them.
Unfortunately, being time does what it does; my left nut won't buy much anymore. So I won't be going anywhere. What I will do is stay here when and if they go and help with the children, who will be missing fathers while these fine young men do their duty. They will do theirs and I will do mine, such as it is. Thank you Ben Stein, your sincerity and love shine brightly in your writings.
Melvin| 12.14.09 @ 10:53AM
Amen brother, its true the left won't buy much anymore, but hell, we can't even use them as paperweights either.
For those who are not Marines please excuse our wry humor.
Ned, your absolutely correct. The biggest concern that we had when we deployed was that our families were kept safe. And by our being home and helping the families with the Grand Kids, flat tires ect. it gives those on the line a peace of mind so that they can concentrate on the tasks at hand and come home with everything they left with, and sometimes the they're Mrs. just needs that reassuring voice of someone who's been there.
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Richard Aubrey| 12.14.09 @ 10:46AM
Inevitably, some of these folks will need the help of my favorite charity, Fisher House. Please consider Fisher House.
Crap. If it weren't for the knees, and the wind, and forty years....
Bram| 12.14.09 @ 11:20AM
This article makes me miss Pendleton and my old friends so badly I can taste. The warm dry air, the smell of the desert, the curumff of arty. San Diego girls. Even Mt. MF. Damn time sucks.
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Harry Hydrick| 12.14.09 @ 11:42AM
If you can read Ben's article and the comments, thank a teacher.
Since you are reading them in English, thank a Marine!
Ned| 12.14.09 @ 11:47AM
I was just thinking of what it would do to a corpsman (doc) if through some fluke of nature a platoon of old codgers was formed and sent to fight overseas.
The poor doc’s medical bag would be the heaviest piece of equipment to pack on a hump. It would be loaded with heart pills, high blood pressure pills, arthritis pills, and oxygen bottles etc. etc. etc. It would make humping a set of 81 mm mortar bi-pods seem like carrying an extra pack of smokes.
I don’t want to mention how the sight of a bunch of camouflaged walkers, with little combat boots on the legs instead of tennis balls, would look standing next to our staged gear on the Parade Deck, but I will.
Ken (Old Texican)| 12.14.09 @ 1:05PM
Ned,
That was funny..........serious funny!
heh...we old farts make splendid snipers though.
Melvin| 12.14.09 @ 1:11PM
I could hear it now. " Ned!...Ned!, formation's over here, Ned! damn, somebody go out and bring him back before an LAV almost runs over him again."
Franklin| 12.14.09 @ 11:52AM
Thank you, Mr. Stein. You rightly represent the majority of Americans when you heart swells with pride seeing our brave men and women in the military. Reading the article and the comments from all makes me believe that our country is still great because her people are still great. Those few Americans who hate America will not prevail.
Thank you and God bless you, everyone.
Dean| 12.14.09 @ 12:25PM
A typical Marine rifle company has more patriotism, more honor and integrity, and a higher sense of duty and country than the entire Congress. Thank God for making such men!
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Melvin| 12.14.09 @ 12:54PM
My dear brothers. One important fact that we must keep in perspective, what we lack in strength and youth, we makeup for this physical shortfall with, "Treachery."
Papa Ray| 12.14.09 @ 1:26PM
Hey...Long ago and far away when I was younger...
(I like to start my war stories like that, my grand kids love it)
I met some Marines on a hilltop deep in the jungle when four of my Lurp buds and myself were in a hell of a bind. We called for help and didn't expect to see this giant helicopter come down from who knows where and spit out eight Marines with ammo, food and water we desperately needed..
Don't even ask why we didn't just jump on the bird and leave. Orders you know. Stupid ones but orders never the less.
We called the Army...? and they sent Marines?
We were too busy to do much talking for the rest of the night and the next day, but found out that they had been on what passed for R&R to the Marines (being sent back to a FOB that was hotter than a skillet left untended on a bonfire) and were just eating everything not nailed down and listening to the comm. net and hear our screams for bloody help. As it was there was nobody that wan't presently occupied trying to save the FOB from being overrun, so they volenteered and jumped on to the same chopper that brought them that still hadn't been fully serviced or fueled.
They said that they "didn't have anything better to do and thought they would "come save our asses".
And believe me, that is exactly what they did. A side note:
Two of these same Marines had been wounded earlier in their fighting and had received medical care at the FOB.
They came to help us anyway.
So...a true war story from an ol' grunt who is staying home taking care of business while he has one grandson in the Navy, one grandson in the Air Force and one chopping at the bit to be a U.S. Marine when he turns of age.
Papa Ray
Eagle's Dominion| 12.14.09 @ 1:41PM
God Bless you Mr. Stein and GOD BLESS ALL WHO SERVE THIS GREAT NATION!
watashi| 12.14.09 @ 1:52PM
In June 1966 I was standing beside my wife and two little ones waiting to board a flight to Vietnam and 15 months of maneuvering my platoon through rice paddies, hedgegroves, and triple canopy. The patriotic attitude you just reported on by those young Marines in that hanger was the same as this Marine and all the others who were waiting to board that flight. Marines have been this way since 1776. I was going to fight a war for a president I didn’t vote for but was willing to do what he thought was necessary for our country. The ones in that hanger are no different. It is sad most Americans don’t give much thought to those who defend their freedom but you are one of us and we salute you for it. Semper Fi
CS Lewis| 12.14.09 @ 3:48PM
Thanks for taking the time to send them off with your best Ben...
For all of us who gave our best, waited for their return, we felt it all, it changes you forever.
The tears and emotion ran deep just reading this and we will remember to pray for them and hope that by God they will finally get a Commander and Chief they deserve.
God bless them and God bless America.
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Tex Expatriate| 12.14.09 @ 4:26PM
Thanks for going there, Ben. I can remember more than fifty years ago a Christmas season before a new assignment when I would have loved to have met a patriot like you. Back then, though, nearly all Americans were patriots---a time far different from the present.
A Cpl. and Squad Leader,
Tex Expatriate
Ken (Old Texican)| 12.14.09 @ 7:13PM
VICTORY OR DEATH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtjfMjjce2Y
Margie| 12.14.09 @ 8:06PM
THAT was awesome.
I'm thinking..compare that to ANY Socialist Democrat running for office. I know who I'd vote for in a nano second!
Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 12.14.09 @ 9:19PM
I second that Margie, that video was Awesome, thanks Ken!! I just wish Newt would talk like that more often when he’s on FOX, hell I just wish he’d talk like that all the time from now on. We need a strong voice from our side, not somebody who’s trying to make friends from the other side of the aisle, or with our “domestic” enemies in general.
And to MR Stein, have you ever considered joining the USO tours (maybe you have, I don’t know)? The Troops “over there” would love to hear you speak? Especially for the fact that, they’re very entertainment starved (because Hollywood hates the US Military and doesn't support us, don’t you know?), so you don’t even have to bring your “A” game over there, to make them laugh, you can just kind of mail it in for them, and they’ll still love you. But remember, don’t forget to bring some NFL cheerleaders with you, otherwise, you’ll really have to have your “A” game with you to be a hit. And just to prove my point, Al Franken came over to Iraq in 2007 with the USO, and some of my fellow soldiers, actually, thought he was funny (but then again, he had NFL cheerleaders with him). Now personally, I didn’t find him funny at all, but then again, I’ve never been able to stand him, even before he ran for the US Senate. I always thought that, as a Comedian, you’re supposed to be funny in some sort of manner, but maybe that’s just me, I’m a very harsh critic.
Michael Tomlinson| 12.14.09 @ 7:49PM
Obama is planning to cut the CIA's successful use of drones to kill Muslim fanatics. Does anyone really believe his phony surge is anything more than a PR stunt in a war he plans to lose. Obama is sending Americans in harms way while he's trying to come up with ways to save jihadist's lives. Four words sum up what needs to be done to save America -- Impeach and Remove Obama.
Margie| 12.14.09 @ 8:14PM
God bless Ben Stein, and God bless the Marines and all our Troops!
Always in our prayers, you protectors of our country.. "greater love hath no man.."
Ret. Marine| 12.14.09 @ 9:52PM
It is a good day when this old devil dog can read of the days of old, when the pasture was full and the oats were rearing to go. I is a sad day when those who refuse to acknowledge our past talents, while we have released them unto our sons, to do battle in the middle of the night while they sleep in their comfort without a worry near. I am of the mind that the current leadership, as a whole, would use these fine and serious men of courage for their political gains, not the intention of their use. Thank you Mr. Stein for your observations and time with these Patriots who ask not what their country can do for them, but do for their country without being asked. They are truely an example of America's finest and we do appreciate them for their honor, duty, sacrifice, devotion and love for their fellow man. Semper Fi.
GreyLion| 12.14.09 @ 10:41PM
Thank you Mr. Stein, those young men and women are the finest we have and your concern for them and willingness to meet them means a lot to them and to me. I second the suggestion that you consider a USO tour. I cannot tell you how much important it is to let them know they are appreciated and, yes, loved. Semper Fidelis is not an empty slogan to them, they live it, believe it and sadly some will die for it. God love em.
Pat| 12.15.09 @ 7:40AM
BEN STEIN,... as I read your article and all the following comments, I Thank You for your talents and courage to speak for the rest of us True Americans. We owe un-measurable amounts to our Military, past & present, who serve & protect America !!! GOD BLESS YOU BEN, AND ALL OUR PRECIOUS MILITARY & THEIR DEAR FAMILIES !!!
L. Ross| 12.15.09 @ 10:36AM
Mr. Stein,
That was a beautifully written, moving piece. Thank you.
Tim| 12.15.09 @ 2:02PM
We all pray for peace, Marines actually do something about it.
Oldpapajoe| 12.15.09 @ 3:13PM
A friend of mine, a US Army lieutenant colonel of infantry, lost both his legs above the knee in July in Iraq to an IED (on his third deployment). When I visited him at Walter Reed, he reminded me that he really hadn't lost anything. His words: "God promised me eternal life, not eternal legs. I'll be OK. I only hope I can stay in the fight somehow, but without legs I doubt I can do much". Now, that kicked me in the gut. He is clearly a better man than I am.
S.L. Toddard| 12.15.09 @ 6:33PM
I have a question.
Consider the following tendencies:
*endless quasi-religious worship of the state's military power
*endless demands that more and more wealth (and therefore power) be confiscated (from American workers) and redistributed to the state's military machine
*blind and passionate advocacy for any and every costly, state-expanding, state-empowering scheme the egghead bureaucrats in Washington cook up - as long as it involves using the state's military machine
* Abiding faith and devotion to the idea that (whenever the government exercises or proposes to exercise its truly awesome and terrible military might) government is noble and beneficent, that it is efficient, that it is peopled with wise men, and that it should be further empowered with confiscated tax money so it can be used as an engine to effect social change all over the world -
Is it possible for one to argue that the tendencies enumerated above are not those of a statist?
We have 3,000 miles of open border with Mexico, across which any terrorist can easily stroll. Keep that in mind when Big Government tells you our soldiers need to be on the other side of the globe to "protect us from terrorism". It is not a serious position - to claim the danger we face from terrorism is so profound that we must wage perpetual war, but it is so insignificant that we can leave open a 3,000 mile door to any jihadist who wishes to attack us.
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AzMarineMom| 12.16.09 @ 11:52AM
I am the mother of one of those Marines at Camp Pendleton getting ready to leave in Jan 2010. He has trained his men to be the best there is. They are ready. He takes his job of leading and keeping his men safe and strong very seriously. I am a Marine Mom. I will be there when he leaves to smile, pray over him, and hold my daughter in law (expecting 1st child 5/5/10) and his sisters hand. It has made me very proud to read the comments here. I thank all of you for your support. Please keep all our young men in your prayers for thier safety and thier families to have strength to hold down the fort while they are gone. God Bless all of you
John from Dallas| 12.17.09 @ 7:36AM
The United States Marine Corp truly is our tip of the sword. God Bless them and their families. May God hold them and keep them safe from harm as they crush evil from this planet. Semper fi
one who was there| 12.17.09 @ 11:46AM
Mr Stein,
As one of the woman who helped put on this party, i know with all our food and toys and everything we did YOU were the thing these men will be talking about for a long long time. I never saw you i was in the "toy store" the entire night but all i heard about was the happiness you brought them .I wish you could have been a fly on the wall and heard them..
so thank you again and God Bless.
Omar W. Rosales| 12.23.09 @ 6:00PM
Hey Ben,
Great article. Marines are the Best!
Semper Fi,
- Omar W. Rosales
CAPT USMC '97-'03
Director, 'Heaven in Exile'
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