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Also from Bastogne, the Airborne Medic who translated the word “NUTS!”.... NUTS
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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The mofos won't let me read it. They say I've reached my limit. May they burn in hell..
Paul B.
Our forefathers did not politely protest the British.They did not vote them out of office, nor did they impeach the king,march on the capitol or ask permission for their rights. ----------------They just shot them.
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Awesome video, thanks for posting.
I never really realized how rough it was during The Battle of The Bulge until I watched Band of Brothers for the first time. Anyone who was there is a genuine tough guy in my book.
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem."
Ronald Reagan
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My uncle Glen was there. He told more than once about the soldiers being so tired that they would huddle in a group of three and sleep standing up. I asked him why they didn't just lay down. They were afraid of freezing to death lying in the snow. In the forest, they would dig foxholes and they would cover the top with any logs or wooden slabs they could find to keep shrapnel and wood splinters from hitting them. The Krauts shelled the area one night and branches and shrapnel were coming down all around them. In the morning, he began clearing the cover from the foxhole and he found an 88mm shell. It was lying within an arms length of their hole but had failed to detonate.
“My horn is full and my pouch is stocked with ball and patch. There is a new, sharp flint in my lock and my rifle and I are ready. It is sighted true and my eyes can still aim.”
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Amazing men of the Greatest Generation.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
Robert E. Howard
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