 | Sgt. Nicolas Thornbro graduated from Marion High School, Marion, Kansas in 1997. He joined the United States Army immediately following graduation. He was deployed in February 2004 and is currently serving with the 1st Infantry Division’s Headquarters & Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment in Iraq. His home station is with the 1/18th in Schweinfert, Germany. Thornbro has received numerous awards, ribbons and medals including the Army Service Ribbon, the Army Achievement Award, the National Defense Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Air Assault Badge (wings), the Parachutes Badge (airborne wings), the Expert Infantrymans Badge, and the rarely given Gold German Proficiency Badge. Nicolas’s training includes several advanced programs at Ft. Benning, Ft. Campbell and Ft. Bragg. Sgt. Thornbro and his wife, Karen, have 5 children, including the newest member... a baby boy born this past July. You may contact Sgt. thornbro by mail at: Sgt. Nicolas J. Thornbro, HHC TF 1/18 IN, 2 BCT 1 IN DIV FWD, FOB Danger, APO AE. |
Defending America
2004-08-01 11:51:00
Where are our allies?
: Why haven't we gotten more support from our allies since 9/11?
ANSWER: There are a lot of theories about this, but one of the guys in our unit found an interesting statement over 500 years old from Machiavelli that does a good job of describing what is going on. "One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat them well, they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their property, their lives, their children, so long, as I said above, as danger is remote; but when you are in danger they turn against you." Our "allies" in Europe have been for the most part with us as long as WE were liberating them from the Nazis, protecting them from the Soviets, or helping them to clean up problems in their backyard. However, now we're asking for help and many of our "allies" have made themselves rather scarce. What Bush has done or hasn't done isn't the issue, the issue is that we're asking them for help this time instead of the reverse.
