Marines in Iraq, Part 2

If you depended on the mainstream media for your information about Iraq, you would be missing out on a lot of positive stuff. Not only reconstruction and other benevolence, but also great examples of bravery.



One noteworthy Marine is Captain Brian Chontosh, whose exploits you would think would get some attention but I'm guessing most people have never heard of him. He earned the Navy Cross (pictured above), second only to the Medal of Honor, but I've hardly heard anything outside of what I've tracked down. Chontosh went back to Iraq a second time, this time leading a company in battalion 3/5 in the attack on Fallujah last November (Fox News had a reporter imbedded with him, so you may have seen a real live hero getting interviewed and not known it). There may be a decent chance he'll show up in Bing West's book and movie, No True Glory, about the Marines in Fallujah--but no guarantees.