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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++= Yes sir, they sure are!
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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Karma and Trouble have busses, and there's always an empty seat.
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Not a bad thread. Hat's off to all you guys on this Veterans Day, but let's not forget that we are all alive. We owe a lot to the guy's that are not with us today. Hat's off to THEM! I know what you mean. During the years I was in, we had three conflicts and I wasn't invited to any of them. I ended up watching the action in the company dayroom like everyone else in my unit. I really don't think I contributed much.
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Slasher, Chesty once called a South Korean Col. up at the line to get some Info on how many Chineses were up there. The Col. said "Many, Many Chinese" He asked again "How Many?" The Col answered again "many, many." Frustrated he asked the Col. to put a Marine Laison Officer on the line. He asked the same question. The Officer said "There's a [bleep] of Chinese up here, Col."
Chesty replied. "Thank god someone knows how to count up there"
Better to be over the hill than under it.
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 Nice! semper fi Chesty Puller, you mean old SOB!! Chesty, Dan Daily, Smedly Butler.. My heros.
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My wife Teri was in the AF for 13 years...
One man with courage makes a majority....
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Back in the heartland, Thank God!
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USAF 1975-2001 ... all around the world baby.
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Focus on the leading edge!
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US Army 1976 - 79, SP5
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The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
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I heard this on Fox News and maybe don't have the figures quite exact but there are some 2 million plus WW II veterans still alive but they are dying at a rate of about 800 a day. My father was one, in the Phillipines at age 18, and is 82 today and still in relatively good health.
One of his brothers was in the Navy on a ship that was hit so bad they were bailing water with buckets. Another, in the European theatre was in a German prisoner of war camp for two years.
They all came home thankfully though my father is the only survivor.
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I guess I don't really consider myself a Veteran. I was in the 101st Airborne, never left the USA, never saw a minute of combat and never jumped into anything but a landing field at Benning. To me, Veterans are those brave men ( most scared to death) that fought the real battles. I have nothing but the utmost of respect for them and admiration for them too. In battle, I have NO idea of what kind of soldier I would have been, a good one I would hope.
I remember the first time I met my wifes son, he saw my uniform and asked if I ever killed anyone, I said, fortunatly I didn't have too. He asked if I was ever in a war. I said, no I was lucky and didn't have to go to war. He was sorta disappointed in me for sure as I was NO hero. I tried to explain to him how lucky I was NOT to have to have shot anyone, he didn't understand.
At least til he went into the Navy many years later. I think he understands now.
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Dave, get his last book "Chesty" by Col. Hoffman. All true. I worked for Chesty. He almost had me convinced to be a career jarhead, I could tell you stories for an hour.
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I guess I don't really consider myself a Veteran. I was in the 101st Airborne, never left the USA, never saw a minute of combat and never jumped into anything but a landing field at Benning. To me, Veterans are those brave men ( most scared to death) that fought the real battles. I have nothing but the utmost of respect for them and admiration for them too. In battle, I have NO idea of what kind of soldier I would have been, a good one I would hope.
I remember the first time I met my wifes son, he saw my uniform and asked if I ever killed anyone, I said, fortunatly I didn't have too. He asked if I was ever in a war. I said, no I was lucky and didn't have to go to war. He was sorta disappointed in me for sure as I was NO hero. I tried to explain to him how lucky I was NOT to have to have shot anyone, he didn't understand.
At least til he went into the Navy many years later. I think he understands now. You are a Veteran, you served your county where other's didn't, that is all it takes buddy. You have my respect, I refused to jump out of perfectly good airplanes. Les
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