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Outnumbered More Than 10:1, Green Berets Take 'Em All Down
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| December 14, 2008
| Bill Dupray
Posted on 12/14/2008 1:01:51 PM PST by Bill Dupray
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To: Bill Dupray
As Ford and Staff Sgt. John Wayne Walding returned fire, Walding was hit below his right knee. Ford turned and saw that the bullet basically amputated his right leg right there on the battlefield. Walding, of Groesbeck, Tex., recalled: I literally grabbed my boot and put it in my crotch, then got the boot laces and tied it to my thigh, so it would not flop around. There was about two inches of meat holding my leg on. He put on a tourniquet, watching the blood flow out the stump to see when it was tight enough. Then Walding tried to inject himself with morphine but accidentally used the wrong tip of the syringe and put the needle in this thumb, he later recalled. My thumb felt great, he said wryly, noting that throughout the incident he never lost consciousness. My name is John Wayne, he said.Wow. Just wow.
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posted on
12/14/2008 1:06:18 PM PST
by
LiberConservative
("I would have looked forward to debating anybody." -Sarah Palin)
To: LiberConservative
That is just what John Wayne would have said, except he would have had both legs attached. John Wayne Walding is a real tough guy.
To: Bill Dupray
WOW!
That “John Wayne” guy was a real Character! Good on the Green Berets!
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posted on
12/14/2008 1:08:53 PM PST
by
DieHard the Hunter
(Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fà g am bealach.)
To: Bill Dupray
For many of us ... this type of story is NOT news, as we Know deep down inside, the GREATNESS of our Military.
For the REST of AMERICA... this story should be run EVERY HOUR, with the Notation “Attention you Unpatriotic, UnAmerican, Liberal SCumBAGS.. These Soldiers are fighting for you ... Whether you LIKE IT OR NOT!”
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posted on
12/14/2008 1:09:21 PM PST
by
gwilhelm56
(Orwell's "1984" .. to Conservatives- a WARNING, to Liberals - a TEXTBOOK)
To: RedRover; jazusamo; Girlene; 4woodenboats; Grimmy; xzins; smoothsailing; lilycicero; bigheadfred; ..
To: gwilhelm56
Someone should prop Michael Moore's eyes open ala A Clockwork Orange and make hime watch these reports for six or eight months.
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posted on
12/14/2008 1:12:36 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Barack Obama: In Error and arrogant -- he's errogant!)
To: Bill Dupray
Lord bless these brave youngsters, but their plan was to fight downhill. The eaters of snakes must have been quite disappointed to find themselves taking fire from a cluster of thick-walled mud buildings about 1,000 feet farther up the mountain.
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posted on
12/14/2008 1:14:17 PM PST
by
flowerplough
("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
To: SkyDancer
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posted on
12/14/2008 1:15:35 PM PST
by
Northern Yankee
(Freedom Needs A Soldier)
To: Northern Yankee
Yeah, esp. when the guy used his boot to tend to his wound ...
my kinda guy ....
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posted on
12/14/2008 1:16:45 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
To: SkyDancer
By the way, now that a Democrat is in office, war is good now.
It’s okay to report on the valor of our men. Hollywood will now start making real war movies.
The MSM disgusts me.
Best,
Chris
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posted on
12/14/2008 1:19:12 PM PST
by
section9
(Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
To: gwilhelm56
Liberal SCumBAGS.. These Soldiers are fighting for you ... Whether you LIKE IT OR NOT!
Amen to that! I have a coworker that is a pampered brat (Obama campaigner) who, prior to the election, railed against the “pro war” Republicans that put her brother-in-law in Iraq. She doesn’t give a shit about his thoughts on the war on terror but only about how it makes her feel. These people truly aren’t worth the many deaths that have kept us free. I wish to God that we had some authority to ship this kind out of the good old USA. I’m sick to death of hearing these whiners think that peace can come by staying out of foreign affairs and singing kumbiyah(sp).
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posted on
12/14/2008 1:26:54 PM PST
by
rj45mis
To: section9
I no longer watch TV news either national or local ... I get my news now on the Internet ...
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posted on
12/14/2008 1:29:01 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad, Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
To: Bill Dupray
...sadly a story of unbelievable strenght and courage that will never be told in our socialist school systems,the MSM,or from the elitist hollywood pinheads.
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posted on
12/14/2008 1:35:30 PM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: SkyDancer
News from the internet is filtered and distorted by the same MSM.
I also noticed that the tone of MSM on the need for military force has changed since November.
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posted on
12/14/2008 1:38:13 PM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: Kirkwood
I also noticed that the tone of MSM on the need for military force has changed since November.
Because it's "their" military now.
To: DieHard the Hunter
To borrow a bit, with a name like John Wayne it’s got to be good.
To: Bill Dupray
All emotions aside, it sounds like a poorly planned mission that almost wiped out the Americans. Was QRF a planned? Close air support? Evacuation plan? Or was it “we are the cowboys and the indians will run away when the shooting starts kind of plan...”
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posted on
12/14/2008 2:09:34 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: DieHard the Hunter
Now I’ve got this song in my head:
Fighting soldiers from the sky
Fearless men who jump and die
Men who mean just what they say
The brave men of the Green Beret
Chorus:
Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America’s best
One hundred men will test today
But only three win the Green Beret
Trained to live off natures land
Trained in combat, hand-to-hand
Men who fight by night and day
Courage peak from the Green Berets
(Chorus) Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America’s best
One hundred men will test today
But only three win the Green Beret
Back at home a young wife waits
Her Green Beret has met his fate
He has died for those oppressed
Leaving her his last request
“Put silver wings on my son’s chest
Make him one of America’s best
He’ll be a man they’ll test one day
Have him win the Green Beret”
(Chorus) Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America’s best
One hundred men will test today
But only three win the Green Beret
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posted on
12/14/2008 2:11:12 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(I hate Illinois Marxists)
To: gwilhelm56
Bless these lads! We know what our warriors can do!
Feel fortunate, liberal scum, that these boys fight to give you the freedom to be stupid.......in the name of liberty!!
Militant
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posted on
12/14/2008 2:12:05 PM PST
by
militant2
( "God Bless these Divided States of America!")
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