Quote of the day.

“The biggest thing to take from that day is what Marines can accomplish when they’re given the opportunity to fight. A small group of Marines met a numerically superior force and embarrassed them in their own backyard. The insurgents told the townspeople that they were stronger than the Americans, and that day we showed them they were wrong.”

– An anonymous U.S. Marine sniper who personally killed 20 Taliban fighters in Shewan, Afghanistan.

Related: Embed Michael Yon reiterates, “The Iraq War is over.”