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Dan Crenshaw Provides a Glimpse Into a Combat Veteran’s Memorial Day Thoughts
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 05/27/2019 4:55:55 AM PDT by EyesOfTX

This being Memorial Day, I was real proud of myself because the first thing I thought to do when I got up out of bed was to put up the flag in front of my house. Then I got online went to Twitter, and the first thing I saw was a thread by Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw, himself a Navy SEAL and veteran of three deployments to Afghanistan, remembering his fellow SEALs who did not make the trip home. I was going to write something myself this morning, but after seeing this I figure you don’t really need anything from me today.

Much has been written over the years about how reluctant combat veterans typically are to talk about their experiences in war. If you wonder what the combat veteran men and women you have known were thinking about on Memorial Day, Rep. Crenshaw’s thread, copied here so that those who do not habit Twitter can see it, will give you some idea. Please read it all the way through.

Dan Crenshaw ✔ @DanCrenshawTX Enjoy your Memorial Day and let us remember why we celebrate. We celebrate the lives of the heroes we have lost. Never Forget.

Read entire thread please.#MemorialDay2019 #MemorialDay

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: fakenews; mediabias; stolenpost; trump; trumpwinsagain

1 posted on 05/27/2019 4:55:55 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
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To: EyesOfTX
(Excerpt) Read more at

No. Nothing is preventing you from posting the the full content right here.
Is there something you've written that isn't suitable for Free Republic?

2 posted on 05/27/2019 5:13:54 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: EyesOfTX

So many of his friends lost. So many beautiful young lives.


3 posted on 05/27/2019 5:14:48 AM PDT by McGavin999 (Border security without a wall is like having a Ring doorbell without a doorw)
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To: EyesOfTX

Quite touching, thanks for posting and calling our attention to this


4 posted on 05/27/2019 5:46:53 AM PDT by Montaignes Cat
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To: humblegunner

Amazingly enough, the internet is larger than Free Republic. Many interesting and informative things are posted there.


5 posted on 05/27/2019 5:55:45 AM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: Interesting Times
Amazingly enough, the internet is larger than Free Republic.

Equally amazing is that this dude ripped off Crenshaw's
material and expects to be rewarded with traffic for it.

6 posted on 05/27/2019 5:59:32 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner
He didn't rip it off. He called attention to it.

The internet is not a zero sum game. If you see something you like, you can recommend it to your readers. The readers benefit from the new information. The target benefits from the free advertising. In economic terms, this is called a "win-win" scenario. It works much more effectively than your preferred model, "Everything must be posted on my web site."

7 posted on 05/27/2019 6:10:26 AM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: Interesting Times
He didn't rip it off. He called attention to it.

And conveniently directed traffic to his own blog to see it.

What a hero.

8 posted on 05/27/2019 6:14:27 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: humblegunner
I realize you are unlikely to grasp what I am telling you. In the best case, you might learn something and moderate your destructive behavior. But even if all I can do is spotlight your ignorance, that is not entirely without its rewards.

Also, thanks once again for bumping an interesting article to the top of Latest Posts.

9 posted on 05/27/2019 6:20:27 AM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: All
Here's the direct link to Dan Crenshaw's Twitter...

Dan Crenshaw on Twitter

10 posted on 05/27/2019 7:27:13 AM PDT by FtrPilot
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To: EyesOfTX

Thanks for posting.


11 posted on 05/27/2019 7:43:54 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: EyesOfTX
Hey, thanks for putting this up.

We need to do everything and anything to encourage those of a conservative bent to express themselves here.

12 posted on 05/27/2019 8:07:34 AM PDT by franksolich (Scourge of the primitives)
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To: Interesting Times

The internet is not zero-sum, but neither is it zero cost.

To illustrate the point, consider an analogy: You’re having a garage or yard sale but you live on an obscure back street. To make it easier for people to find your sale, you put a sign up in front of a popular restaurant on a busy intersection nearby. Naturally you don’t pay for such a thing because after all there are plenty of intersections and restaurants.

Before long, others start putting up their own signs until a regular customer, Mr. Humble, complains that there are so many signs in front now that it’s hard to see the legitimate signs for the Daily Special or Open hours when he drives past. Every business knows that “location location location” is a valuabe asset, and the advertising freeloaders are taking some of this value without paying for it. Frustrated Mr. Humble watches the intersection, and whenever he sees someone putting up a new garage sale sign, he expresses his disapproval.

If this were my site, I would solve this in a heartbeat by charging a fee, say $5.00, for posting blog links. That way the blogger would receive the benefit of having his “sign” in front of the 23,609th ranked global website and instead of taking advantage of my generosity, he would be a business partners who pays for the service. THAT would make it a win-win outcome.

And if he chose not to pay, no big loss because after all, the internet is a big place, and all the biggest websites got where they are by offering content that customers judged to be of value, not by squatting on Free Republic for free.


13 posted on 05/27/2019 8:08:12 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: bigbob

Well, I’m sure that if the owner of this site thought it was a bad idea, he’d ban the posting of and from blogs, period.


14 posted on 05/27/2019 8:11:36 AM PDT by franksolich (Scourge of the primitives)
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To: EyesOfTX

Thank you for posting.

SALUTE.


15 posted on 05/27/2019 8:11:38 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: humblegunner; EyesOfTX
BOT: A program that runs autonomously, and which performs repetitive and/or remotely-controlled tasks...

Like whining.

16 posted on 05/27/2019 8:15:51 AM PDT by gogeo (Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
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To: gogeo

You’re absolutely right, I’m just a piece of software designed to annoy you.


17 posted on 05/27/2019 9:08:43 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: EyesOfTX
As with every Memorial day I think of one of my Platoon Sergeants.


18 posted on 05/27/2019 9:20:16 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: humblegunner
I’m just a piece of software designed to annoy you.

Oh, no. I believe it serves a higher purpose.

It's here to annoy everyone.

19 posted on 05/27/2019 9:27:11 AM PDT by gogeo (Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
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To: gogeo

In the industry, we call that a “value-added feature”.


20 posted on 05/27/2019 9:35:25 AM PDT by humblegunner
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