09-05-2006, 15:43
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: RDU
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06 September 2004
Folks,
I ask your prayers for a family, dear to me since childhood. Mick Bekowsky was my childhood best friend from an early age. We played together until High School, when I joined the Army and he stayed on to go to College.
I came home from Afghanistan in 2002, and Mick informed me he was joining the Marine Corps to fight the good fight. He was so proud and I was so proud of him.
On September 07, 2004, I received a call from my mother, telling me his grandmother had called her, just moments prior.
They had just received official notification that Mick Bekowsky had been Killed in Action in Al Fallujah, Iraq, due to an IED. THis was his second tour to Iraq and he was three weeks from coming home.
He died proudly, however, knowing the risk he made and courageously accepting it for God and Country and Countrymen. He is a true Hero and I'm honored to have been his friend.
06 September 2006 marks the second anniversary of his death. I ask that you take a moment of meditation or prayer and direct your thoughts towards the safety and victory of our troops and our Country's leaders.
Blue Skies, Marine and Friend.
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Israel's Mossad
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CPL Mick Bekowsky, USMC, 6 Sep 2004, Fallujah --- Never Forgotten
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09-05-2006, 17:52
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Area Commander
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Midwest
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RIP CPL Bekowsky.
F, you and his family/friends are in my prayers.
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09-05-2006, 18:46
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Area Commander
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Delaware
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Rest in peace Marine!
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You ask; What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.” You ask; What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.-Winston Churchill
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09-05-2006, 19:18
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
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Rest In Peace
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
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09-05-2006, 20:06
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Area Commander
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: No. VA, USA
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Rest in Peace
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09-06-2006, 16:01
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Area Commander
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Colorado
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Rest in Peace, Prayers to you Mav, sorry for your personal loss!
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09-06-2006, 16:29
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Semper Fi, Marine. RIP.
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Hearing, I forget. Seeing, I remember. Writing (doing), I understand. Chinese Proverb
Too many people are looking for a magic bullet. As always, shot placement is the key. ~TR
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09-06-2006, 17:01
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Consigliere
Join Date: Jan 2004
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RIP
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09-06-2006, 17:14
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: OIF
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Rest in Peace Cpl Bekowsky.
Our Prayers & thanks go to you Mav, & to Cpl Bekowsky's family. I do believe God has a special place for warriors & selfless servants.
Remembering 2 yrs later.......Semper Fidelis
NSDQ
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Is not this the fast that I have choosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Isaiah 58:6,7
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09-06-2006, 17:21
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Gun Pilot
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Iowa and New Mexico
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Blue skies!
Rest In Peace!
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09-06-2006, 17:29
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
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RIP, Marine.
Semper Fi!
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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09-06-2006, 18:40
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: RDU
Posts: 110
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Thank you all, very much. Both for your consideration and your own selfless service to our Country. It is not forgotten and never will be.
Thank you.
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"By way of deception, thou shalt do war."
Israel's Mossad
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CPL Mick Bekowsky, USMC, 6 Sep 2004, Fallujah --- Never Forgotten
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09-06-2006, 20:38
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: between the desert and the sea
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RIP
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