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Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Wear Uniforms
Townhall.com ^ | May 28, 2015 | Matt Towery

Posted on 05/28/2015 10:34:35 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Alberta's Child

Oh good grief. You sound like Burkman1.


21 posted on 05/28/2015 11:43:43 AM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless America And Our Troops)
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To: xzins

Very well said. The military and the intelligence community are full of patriots. We need to keep it that way.


22 posted on 05/28/2015 11:45:43 AM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: MEG33

Yeah, I badly worded that post.


23 posted on 05/28/2015 11:53:52 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: Alberta's Child

LOL, nothing like doubling down on crazy and despising the American GI.


24 posted on 05/28/2015 11:56:01 AM PDT by ansel12
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To: DaveA37

God bless you and the thousands like you.

If you ever do have to saddle up again be sure to send word. I’ll be there before dawn.


25 posted on 05/28/2015 11:57:35 AM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: Alberta's Child; MrEdd

Good boots, drab clothing, two canteens, and a thousand rounds of ammunition.


26 posted on 05/28/2015 12:01:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Alberta's Child

I was considering it to pay for college until I got some scholarships. My cousin, who’s a doctor in the Navy, tells me constantly about young people who pretend mental illness to get out. It seems like Hell on Earth. Plus, considering my Christian beliefs and heterosexuality, I would not be welcomed. Thank God it all worked out.


27 posted on 05/28/2015 12:11:47 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees..." -Isaiah 10:1)
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To: Politicalkiddo

I have a married conservative Christian grandson in the Navy. Military life isn’t for everyone, though.


28 posted on 05/28/2015 12:20:32 PM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless America And Our Troops)
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To: ansel12
It was only 2 or 3 years ago when freepers were supportive of those serving.

Most of those folks have left. FR is a very strange place these days.

29 posted on 05/28/2015 12:29:58 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: centurion316

The great majority still are of course, but remember that we have a few nutty posters that are excitable nut cases.

Give those guys a few months of gays in the military and females in Infantry articles, and they instantly start posting about the entire military as being made up of Obama appointees, as though all those Gunnery Sergeants, PFCs from Texas, and Majors, and Rangers, all just enlisted, and joined for gay marriage or something.


30 posted on 05/28/2015 12:54:11 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Alberta's Child

You fail grasp that having people who will side with the populace over the government (if that becomes necessary) inside the military is critical.

During one hundred percent of your lifetime so far the United States has had that. If it had not, you would have lived a very different life.


31 posted on 05/28/2015 12:55:35 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Alberta's Child
You can take anything after 1900 and throw it out the window, because at that point the U.S. military became a de facto colonial military force along the lines of the French Foreign Legion rather than a legitimate protector of U.S. citizens and the U.S. Constitution.

Ron Paul, is that you?

32 posted on 05/28/2015 12:59:55 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: centurion316

It’s sort of become a haven for free love commandos.


33 posted on 05/28/2015 1:01:48 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: ansel12

Living in your parents basement gives a person a very warped perspective on the world.


34 posted on 05/28/2015 1:39:43 PM PDT by centurion316
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To: centurion316

It is true that just about every one of those type posters, gives the impression that they themselves never served.

I just had one the other day who just flat out would not say if he ever served or not, no matter how he was asked.


35 posted on 05/28/2015 2:05:06 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12

Almost makes a person think that he/she doesn’t fit around here anymore.

....if you’re real sensitive.

Well, I’m still here. (Spend a lot of time just lurkin’.)

No sensitivity in my makeup since about 1966.


36 posted on 05/28/2015 6:16:25 PM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (God gives us rights; Governments take them away....if we let them.)
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To: Alberta's Child

Me either.


37 posted on 05/28/2015 7:56:09 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Kaslin; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; Jet Jaguar; ...

Active Duty/Retiree ping.


38 posted on 05/28/2015 7:58:44 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: NorthMountain
"For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Chuck him out, the brute!” But it’s “Saviour of ‘is country” when the guns begin to shoot; An’ it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ anything you please; An’ Tommy ain’t a bloomin’ fool — you bet that Tommy sees!"

Bears repeating - kinda sums it up. For those unaware, in Rudyard Kipling's time the British slang 'Tommy Atkins' is the same as we would use 'G.I. Joe'.

God bless our troops. They stand ready on the front line looking for a chance to close with, and kill, the enemies of our way of life. Despite what the armchair internet has to say.

As an added benefit, they are now threatening us where we lives, along with our families.

I say, bring it!

Thanks, North, for a good, timeless, poetic reminder from another time.

'If...'

39 posted on 05/28/2015 8:48:44 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed)
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To: KitJ

[crap] *lives* = live

...anyway, you get what I mean. Right?
Kit


40 posted on 05/28/2015 8:51:51 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed)
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