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1. Paula Hoehn
   December 8th, 2016 @ 9:25 pm

   Dear Orly,

   I should not mention Kaepernick’s name in the same sentence as retired Gen. John Kelly, nominated by Pres-elect Trump as head of the Department of Homeland Security, however this report below shows the type of men Gen. Kelly has worked with, as opposed to Kaepernick.

   Marine Lt. General John Kelly’s 2010 speech about two Marines in the path of a truck bomb in Iraq:

   https://www.businessinsider.com/john-kellys-marines-in-ramadi-2014-5

   Everybody Should Read General John Kelly’s Speech About Two Marines In The Path Of A Truck Bomb
   Geoffrey Ingersoll
   May 26, 2014, 4:07 PM

   Excerpt:
   “Two Marines, Corporal Jonathan Yale and Lance Corporal Jordan Haerter, 22 and 20 years old respectively, one from each battalion, were assuming the watch together at the entrance gate of an outpost that contained a makeshift barracks housing 50 Marines.”

   Excerpt:
   “A few minutes later a large blue truck turned down the alley way—perhaps 60-70 yards in length—and sped its way through the serpentine of concrete jersey walls. The truck stopped just short of where the two were posted and detonated, killing them both catastrophically. Twenty-four brick masonry houses were damaged or destroyed. A mosque 100 yards away collapsed. The truck’s engine came to rest two hundred yards away knocking most of a house down before it stopped.”

   Excerpt:
   “Our experts reckoned the blast was made of 2,000 pounds of explosives. Two died, and because these two young infantrymen didn’t have it in their DNA to run from danger, they saved 150 of their Iraqi and American brothers-in-arms.”

   Excerpt:
   “What we didn’t know at the time, and only learned a couple of days later after I wrote a summary and submitted both Yale and Haerter for posthumous Navy Crosses, was that one of our security cameras, damaged initially in the blast, recorded some of the suicide attack. It happened exactly as the Iraqis had described it. It took exactly six seconds from when the truck entered the alley until it detonated.”

   Excerpt:
   “You can watch the last six seconds of their young lives.”

   Excerpt:
   “The recording shows the truck careening to a stop immediately in front of the two Marines. In all of the instantaneous violence Yale and Haerter never hesitated. By all reports and by the recording, they never stepped back. They never even started to step aside. They never even shifted their weight. With their feet spread shoulder width apart, they leaned into the danger, firing as fast as they could work their weapons. They had only one second left to live.”

   Excerpt:
   “The truck explodes. The camera goes blank. Two young men go to their God.”

   Excerpt:
   “Six seconds.”

   Excerpt:
   “Not enough time to think about their families, their country, their flag, or about their lives or their deaths, but more than enough time for two very brave young men to do their duty … into eternity. That is the kind of people who are on watch all over the world tonight — for you.”

   ——–
   Paula Hoehn

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