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Incredible Vietnam War photos show the moment American troops unleash hell on a Viet Kong sniper
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Posted on 06/20/2013 4:48:03 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch

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To: CrazyIvan
One of the documentaries on the Hood v. Bismarck has an interview with a Kriegsmarine sailor that was up outside the bridge.

He remarked that a salvo from the Hood's 15" guns passed close enough above him to suck the air out of his lungs.

21 posted on 06/20/2013 5:48:03 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: KC_Lion

Why do you capitalize every other word? Are you perhaps, illiterate?


22 posted on 06/20/2013 6:48:44 PM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: American in Israel

yer basic Mad Minute...


23 posted on 06/20/2013 7:11:49 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

Why do you capitalize every other word? Are you perhaps, illiterate?


It’s not “every other word”. Do you have a problem counting?


24 posted on 06/20/2013 7:13:56 PM PDT by Joshua
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To: NonValueAdded

What about Varmint Cong?


25 posted on 06/20/2013 7:14:46 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes; KC_Lion; mickie
"Why do you capitalize every other word? Are you perhaps, illiterate?"

Have You ever read "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" which is Perhaps the Most famous Poem in the literate World?

Leni

26 posted on 06/20/2013 7:16:58 PM PDT by MinuteGal (SO)
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To: KC_Lion

I called in an airstrike once hoping for Cobras but got 2 F4’s. Nineteen yrs old and all that power under my control...you couldn’t beat the smile off my face.


27 posted on 06/20/2013 7:23:34 PM PDT by chesty_puller (Viet Nam 1970-71 He who shed blood with me shall forever be my brother. Shak.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

BUMP!


28 posted on 06/20/2013 7:27:27 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: InvisibleChurch

KC Lion wrote:
“I have only recently begun to learn of the Korean Involvement in the Vietnam War.

I believe they were the Second Largest Foreign Group Operating in Vietnam.

Perhaps only the Australians were Larger. (Other than the U.S. of course)

The ROK Marines are some Bad Ass Hombres. “

IDontLikeToPayTaxes wrote, in response:
“Why do you capitalize every other word? Are you perhaps, illiterate?”


Dear “I Don’t”

Obviously, you were born after The Berlin Wall came down, so I excuse your being taught in a ‘government school’.

The Korean Involvement in The Vietnam War, is not an old wive’s tale, and rightly, should be capitalized, in honor of those Republic of Korea Marines, that fought alongside the American forces in the Vietnam struggle.

They WERE The Second Largest Foreign Group Operating in Vietnam, again, a ‘title’. so it gets capitalized.

The Australians WERE-THE- Largest foreign Operating Force, in Vietnam.

The ROK Marines, had the respect of all those that they fought beside, AND, the Viet C/Kong!
It was the rule: (Excuse me), “Don’t screw with the ROK’s; they WILL screw you up, major!”


29 posted on 06/20/2013 7:30:17 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Riley
I’ve been looking for a while for 16” impact video. If you run across some ping me?

There are a few here taken from a drone (Pioneer?) during Desert Storm

I've also heard of, but never seen, video of the USS Iowa conducting a fire mission against an iceberg in the North Atlantic during exercises in the mid-1980s.
30 posted on 06/20/2013 7:44:29 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Terry L Smith

I recall at the time that North Vietnamese POW’s were quoted as saying that the South Koreans were the troops they feared the most.


31 posted on 06/20/2013 7:47:42 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: jazusamo; Girlene; 4woodenboats; Grimmy; xzins; smoothsailing; lilycicero; bigheadfred; ...

(( ping ))

Pretty cool pictures here.


32 posted on 06/20/2013 8:12:07 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard

Wowsa...thanks for the ping, Lancey.


33 posted on 06/20/2013 8:28:20 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes; Terry L Smith; MinuteGal; Joshua
Why do you capitalize every other word? Are you perhaps, illiterate?

No, it's because in German we tend to capitalize our Nouns and I slip that into English sometimes.

Also the fact that I Freeped that from and iPhone. And Grammar isn't very easy on it.

Are You perhaps Ignorant?

The Rubaiyat:

IX Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

But what does that Khayyám guy know anyway?

Dear “I Don’t” Obviously, you were born after The Berlin Wall came down, so I excuse your being taught in a ‘government school’.

Lols, I can't speak for anyone else here, but I was born one year before the Berlin Wall came down, it must have been something to see!

It also sounds like the ROK Marines where something to see too.

Like I said, I have only recently begun learning about other countries involvement in the war.

I never knew other countries had such a large presence, South Korea I think totaled 350,000 Troops.


34 posted on 06/20/2013 8:30:22 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: CrazyIvan; doorgunner69; Riley; Calvin Locke; chesty_puller; tanknetter; Lancey Howard
I watched this Documentary about The Battleships an embarrassing number of times when I was a kid.

It is truly excellent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4F_2GKSOOE

35 posted on 06/20/2013 8:38:28 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: Daffynition

Yeah, his wife Taya got that published. Heard her on the radidio the other day talking about this.

Apparently that doofus Jesse Ventura is suing the estate because CPO Kyle belted him in some bar one time for talking stoopid about the SEALs.

Ahhhh, I love the smell of broken doofus nose in the morning. Smells like a richardhead former governor and general nitwit. Strap this to your soreass, Blaine.


36 posted on 06/20/2013 9:37:17 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. That should be a convenience store, not a Government Agency.)
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To: West Texas Chuck

Jesse Ventura wants court to substitute Chris Kyle’s widow in defamation lawsuit over ‘American Sniper’ story b/c she is the executor of his estate, according to documents filed in federal court in Minnesota in recent weeks.

There’s not a rock big enuf in Minnesota for him to crawl under and spare us of his stupidity?

http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2013/06/jesse-ventura-wants-court-to-substitute-chris-kyles-widow-in-defamation-lawsuit-over-american-sniper-story.html/


37 posted on 06/20/2013 10:47:57 PM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: Starstruck

I won’t mention names or agencies, but I think that firepower is deserved by any number of traitors in this country. I’ll leave it at that.


38 posted on 06/21/2013 2:51:13 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: KC_Lion
The ROK Marines are some Bad Ass Hombres.

We occasionally worked with the Korean White Horse Division. They had different rules than us. From what we heard about the incident the squad set up camp overlooking the village – and raising their flag – and their squad leader walked down to the village announcing if one more round was fired they would open up on the village. We still got dirty looks but no more rounds were fired.

39 posted on 06/21/2013 5:03:39 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Lancey Howard

Very cool!


40 posted on 06/21/2013 8:56:37 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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