There is a group of people who frequent this and other sites intent on 'Yank Bashing'. They seem to delight in denegrating the US Armed Forces.
I have always had a huge amount of time for our American cousins, working with them for 30-odd years.
This story sets the seal on that friendship and proves once again the value of the United States Forces and their ethos:
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123033462
Thank you, my Americans friends, for the honour you do our fallen...