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Secretary, Troops Surprise Each Other
American Forces Press Service ^ | Feb. 22, 2004 | By John D. Banusiewicz

Posted on 02/22/2004 12:29:45 PM PST by Calpernia

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To: Calpernia
Rummybump.
21 posted on 02/22/2004 5:44:03 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Calpernia
RummyBump!
22 posted on 02/22/2004 5:56:46 PM PST by Valin (America is the land mine between barbarism and civilization.)
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To: Calpernia
Bump!
23 posted on 02/22/2004 7:29:40 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Calpernia
Bump!
24 posted on 02/24/2004 8:38:26 AM PST by windchime (Podesta about Bush: "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done." (TIME-1/22/01))
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To: OKSooner
I was proud to see the Thunderbird insignia of the 45th Brigade on the sleeve of one
of the soldiers talking to Rummy.


Beats the previous insignia by a mile!
(the reverse/Native-American swastika...had to explain to a "Yankee" friend in
Stillwater that the "swastika" in the brickwork of an old house was NOT a
bit of skin-head Nazi artwork!)
25 posted on 02/24/2004 3:24:19 PM PST by VOA
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To: demnomo
Wait till Reuters and AP get a hold of this story...

Hmm...OK, here, let me try:

"Elements of the 120th Engineer Battalion, 90th Troop Command, Oklahoma National Guard, who only joined that organization so they could avoid combat, were found AWOL in Ireland yesterday..."

Something like that?

26 posted on 02/24/2004 3:32:15 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: VOA
The 45th once had the Indian (backwards) swastika as an insignia? I never knew that, I thought they had always been the Thunderbirds.
27 posted on 02/24/2004 4:41:51 PM PST by OKSooner
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To: OKSooner
Sorry I'm in a rush...but here's a link on the topic at the new and improved website
for the 45th Infantry Division Museum --
http://www.45thdivisionmuseum.com/History/SwastikaToThunderbird.html
28 posted on 02/26/2004 8:19:03 AM PST by VOA
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To: OKSooner
The 45th once had the Indian (backwards) swastika as an insignia? I never knew that,
I thought they had always been the Thunderbirds.


just an excuse for an extra bump...and explanation...
A good friend of mine in graduate school at OSU and his family rented a house
near the hospital (in Stillwater).
I suspect that some of these old rental houses might have pre-dated WWII.

Anyway, during a time when I helped the fellow do some renovation on the
home he rented, he mentioned the "swastika" in the brickwork of the
adjacent house.

Thanks to the load of trivia I've accumlated, I was able to calm him and explain
that he was looking at a reverse-"swastika" which had even graced the shoulder-patches
of the noble and decidedly ANTI-Nazi 45th Infantry Division.

I chuckled a bit at calming my friend from Indiana/Illinois...
he ended up being a decided partisan for Oklahoma!
29 posted on 02/26/2004 5:51:53 PM PST by VOA
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