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In response to their comment that “patriotism is the refuge of cowards.” Maybe they should read about America’s Medal of Honor Recipients.

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/moh1.htm

*KINGSLEY, DAVID R. (Air Mission) Rank and organization: Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Corps, 97th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force. Place and date: Ploesti Raid, Rumania, 23 June 1944. Entered service at. Portland, Oreg. Birth: Oregon. G.O. No.: 26, 9 April 1945. Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of life above and beyond the call of duty, 23 June 1944 near Ploesti, Rumania, while flying as bombardier of a B17 type aircraft. On the bomb run 2d Lt. Kingsley's aircraft was severely damaged by intense flak and forced to drop out of formation but the pilot proceeded over the target and 2d Lt. Kingsley successfully dropped his bombs, causing severe damage to vital installations. The damaged aircraft, forced to lose altitude and to lag behind the formation, was aggressively attacked by 3 ME-109 aircraft, causing more damage to the aircraft and severely wounding the tail gunner in the upper arm. The radio operator and engineer notified 2d Lt. Kingsley that the tail gunner had been wounded and that assistance was needed to check the bleeding. 2d Lt. Kingsley made his way back to the radio room, skillfully applied first aid to the wound, and succeeded in checking the bleeding. The tail gunner's parachute harness and heavy clothes were removed and he was covered with blankets, making him as comfortable as possible. Eight ME-109 aircraft again aggressively attacked 2d Lt. Kingsley's aircraft and the ball turret gunner was wounded by 20mm. shell fragments. He went forward to the radio room to have 2d Lt. Kingsley administer first aid. A few minutes later when the pilot gave the order to prepare to bail out, 2d Lt. Kingsley immediately began to assist the wounded gunners in putting on their parachute harness. In the confusion the tail gunner's harness, believed to have been damaged, could not be located in the bundle of blankets and flying clothes which had been removed from the wounded men. With utter disregard for his own means of escape, 2d Lt. Kingsley unhesitatingly removed his parachute harness and adjusted it to the wounded tail gunner. Due to the extensive damage caused by the accurate and concentrated 20mm. fire by the enemy aircraft the pilot gave the order to bail out, as it appeared that the aircraft would disintegrate at any moment. 2d Lt. Kingsley aided the wounded men in bailing out and when last seen by the crewmembers he was standing on the bomb bay catwalk. The aircraft continued to fly on automatic pilot for a short distance, then crashed and burned. His body was later found in the wreckage. 2d Lt. Kingsley by his gallant heroic action was directly responsible for saving the life of the wounded gunner.

1 posted on 04/10/2004 12:33:24 AM PDT by Exton1
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This is what I responded to the twit with:

While some may respond “if you don’t like this country leave” I am glad to have you as one of my challenged brothers. It is obvious from your idiotic ramblings that you did not have a tit to suck on as a child. Apparently the bottle that was given to you was filled with sewage, because that is what you turned out to be.

Everything you wrote was pure crap. I only want to take issue with one of your comments, because the rest…well I already said it; pure crap. Anyways, we don’t live in a democracy a$$hole. It is called a republic. Looks like somebody didn’t pay attention is school. Or you went to one of those schools that your hippie parents helped determine the curriculum for.

I am glad you cheered on 9/11, and I certainly do not want you to leave. I want my children to read your thoughts and, hopefully run into you some day, to know why their daddy served in the military; so that morons like yourself are allowed to express an opinion. Any other society would have your stupid a$$ locked up or put to death. God bless you and your opinion.

29 posted on 04/10/2004 4:27:10 AM PDT by kissmyconservativebutt (That's right Kerry, kiss it!)
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This guy has a beard and wears tweed jackets with fake leather patches on the elbows and loafers.

You can just tell.

32 posted on 04/10/2004 5:00:36 AM PDT by Allegra (And WAIT!! That's not all! Call now and receive this FREE....)
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It's revealing when someone on the left actually speaks his mind instead of obscuring what they really believe. John Kerry and Bill Clinton, et al, just won't admit to feeling this way.

What's important to note is that this person has completely renunciated his American citizenship. There is obvious hatred of capitalism, there is the smug, smarter than thou attitude, and a profound, no doubt self-inflicted, sense of alienation. I believe this guy is white, and if so, the self-loathing is apparent in his comments about the racial makeup of the victims of 9-11.

34 posted on 04/10/2004 5:15:43 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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This guy's post is refreshingly honest in demonstrating the naked misanthropy that underlies leftist thought.

If more Progressives and leftists were this honest, this would be a better world, because 99% of the people would never take them seriously again.
35 posted on 04/10/2004 5:26:55 AM PDT by Maceman (Too nuanced for a bumper sticker)
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NO amount of a&&kicking would be inappropriate for this fece. I would love to hand this pile of crap his own throat.

On a related topic, if you move sufficiently to the right, you also get to this position. I know some former FReepers, now (thank G-d) banned, who have said that they take solace in returning American soldiers in caskets, or that we should thank Iraqis for killing those four US civilians.

Outright traitors, possessing pride in their traitorism, are in our midst.

36 posted on 04/10/2004 5:38:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown -- (I miss ya harpseal))
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Man, it sucks being this guy, huh? If there's a "Bitterest American Alive" award I nominate him.
38 posted on 04/10/2004 5:45:19 AM PDT by laredo44 (liberty is not the problem)
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This really looks like the preamble of a suicide note.
39 posted on 04/10/2004 5:46:38 AM PDT by Skooz (My Biography: Psalm 40:1-3)
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To: Exton1
This person is a ticking time bomb.
40 posted on 04/10/2004 5:53:12 AM PDT by Toespi (,)
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It now says on that site: "This posting has been removed by Craigslist community."


Show 'em my motto!

41 posted on 04/10/2004 6:02:45 AM PDT by rdb3 (An inch off the plate, either way. Letters to the knees. If it's close, you better swing. † <><)
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[The 9/11 hijackers and pilots] believed in something much more than sickening violent greed

This juror, judge and executioner (of US 9/11 victims) condemns with the ultimate penalty something he's generalized must have been in the minds of murder victims. The truth of his conjecture about what he believes to be in their minds he finds worse than the undeniable reality that thousands of civilians have been murderered by the pukes he would defend, again because of what he conjectured to have been in their minds. Conjectured "sickening, violent greed" is condemned over sickening, violent murder by the thousands.

Fortunately, the vomit that wrote this tirade will probably never have much authority over other humans, but such a mindset in authority would doubtless produce yet another Stalin or Hitler, and be looking to kill off humans by the hundreds of thousands if not millions.

Thank God our country's founding fathers had seen these base human tendencies at work as well as how humans can excel when nurtured in freedom apart from tyranny, and wrote a Constitution and designed our federal republic to protect the rights of their childrens' actions, words and thoughts.

HF

42 posted on 04/10/2004 6:15:14 AM PDT by holden
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Interesting the post was removed from Craig List.
44 posted on 04/10/2004 6:27:18 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn
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This guy's a total loser who's never accomplished anything of value in his life and blames all his troubles on someone else.

In other words, he's a Democrat.

46 posted on 04/10/2004 6:58:42 AM PDT by Junior (Remember, you are unique, just like everyone else.)
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The posting has been removed from the source.

This smells more like "troll bait" then a valid argument.

I thinks some silly troll is haveing a belly laught at all that took him/her serious.

49 posted on 04/10/2004 7:27:51 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (The world will get much more dangerous, before it becomes safe again)
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I just saw the Passion last night for the first time. What kept going through my head afterwards is Jesus' command to love your enemies and those who would persecute you.

It's very hard to feel love and forgiveness for some, such as this author. I'll pray for him and try harder.

I can't imagine such rage and despair and hatred that you would celebrate and feel joy at the murder of your country's citizens.

My question to him is, what are you doing to make sure that America lives up to her ideal promise?
52 posted on 04/10/2004 8:33:40 AM PDT by baseballmom
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Actually, point 6 has some portions which are valid.
55 posted on 04/10/2004 8:48:46 AM PDT by Codeflier (Implement Loser Pays)
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To: archy; river rat; Squantos
Sooner or later, we're going to deal with our 5th column.
56 posted on 04/10/2004 8:55:35 AM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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This guy would make a good hood ornament.
57 posted on 04/10/2004 8:57:30 AM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("...and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take...OUR FREEDOM")
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I've got chunks of guys like this in my stool...
58 posted on 04/10/2004 9:01:13 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (I havn't seen my therapist in 5 years. Neither has anyone else ;0))
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I will willingly buy this person a one-way ticket to any Islamist nation he desires--provided that he agree to emigrate there and never return.

Alas, he is too cowardly to give his name, or I'd make the offer directly.

--Boris

60 posted on 04/10/2004 9:29:45 AM PDT by boris (The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
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The terrorists do not discriminate. They target red-blooded Americans like me and blue-blooded American haters like the author alike.
63 posted on 04/10/2004 11:23:41 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Good evening. I'm Sydney Biddle-Barrows, and welcome to Whore Stories!)
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