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Former Minnesota Vikings Coach Talks About Conditions In Iraq
KELO-land News ^
| 05/11/2004
| Amanda Spicer
Posted on 05/12/2004 12:53:04 PM PDT by SoDak
Minnesota Vikings Legend Bud Grant is spreading the word and it's not about the upcoming football season at the metrodome. Instead, the World War II vet wants Americans to know what it's truly like in Iraq. Grant was overseas a month ago as part of a group that entertained the troops. And now he's passing on a message from our service men and women.
You've seen the bombings and you've heard about the men and women who've died. But one man says you're missing out on what's really happening in Iraq.
Bud Grant: "The morale is very high."
Grant visited our soldiers. He ate with them, traveled with them and said he would share a message for them.
Grant: "One soldier said to me 'hey, we are in the Army, this is what Army guys do, you know if I was a fireman I couldn't expect not to go to a fire. If I was a policeman I couldn't expect not to go to arrest anybody. We're in the Army, we're volunteers or reserves almost the same thing and we're here to do a job that we are trained to do and this is our job and we will stay here until it's done.'"
Grant says schools, hospitals, roads and stores are open, electricity is on and water is running. And he says it's all because of our military.
Grant: "They paint the worst picture they possibly can, in other words if they see a truck blowing up they'll put that on television, but in the meantime there are 4000 other trucks that went down that road that same day and you don't see any of that."
Grant says most Iraqis say they are better off than they were a year ago. And the men and women in uniform are to thank.
Grant: "They feel very confident in what they're doing and they are doing a good job."
Grant says communication has also been a big morale booster for the troops. He says the men and women have been able to email or phone their families often.
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota; US: South Dakota; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: budgrant; iraq; morale; personalaccount
Bud Grant rocks. Skol Vikings!
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posted on
05/12/2004 12:53:04 PM PDT
by
SoDak
To: SoDak
Thank you, for letting me read this, before it goes down the Memory Hole.
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posted on
05/12/2004 1:00:01 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
To: SoDak
BUMP
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posted on
05/12/2004 1:01:01 PM PDT
by
wisconsinconservative
("The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.")
To: SoDak
bump for bud!
To: SoDak
Skol Vikings Let's Win This Game,
Skol Vikings Honor Your Name,
Go Get That First Down, Then Get A Touchdown,
Rock Em, Sock Em Fight Fight Fight Fight
Go Vikings, Run Out The Score,
You'll Hear Us Yell For More
V - I - K - I - N - G - S Skol, Vikings, Let's Go.
Skol US Let's Win This War,
Skol US Honor Is Yours,
Go Take That Baghdad, Then Get That Saddam,
Rock Em, Sock Em Fight Fight Fight Fight
Go US, Run Out The Score,
You'll Hear Us Yell For More
U-S-A! U-S-A! Skol, US, Let's Go.
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posted on
05/12/2004 1:04:15 PM PDT
by
biggerten
(Love you, Mom.)
To: SoDak
Great find. Thanks for posting it. BTTT!
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posted on
05/12/2004 1:16:16 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(I'd question John Kerry's patriotism if I thought for a moment he had any...)
To: SoDak
Way to go Bud. You may have cost me several Super Bowl bets (grrrrrrrr) but I love yah!
To: SoDak
God bless our troops and Bud Grant!
BUMP!!
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posted on
05/12/2004 1:27:10 PM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: SoDak
My 6th grade English teacher was Bud Grant's daughter! Bttt.
To: CWOJackson
Long time Viks fan, go back to the Joe Kapp days. Bud Grant is the best coach of all times. Period, end of story.
I have heard, but have not been able to veify that Coach Grant was a player in the early years of the NBA. Anybody got the skinny on this?
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posted on
05/12/2004 2:06:32 PM PDT
by
11Bush
To: 11Bush
Bud GrantBorn: May 20, 1927
Football and Basketball
only coach to win 100 games in both CFL and NFL and only member of both CFL and U.S. Pro Football Halls of Fame; led Winnipeg to 4 Grey Cup titles (1958-59,61-62) in 6 appearances, but his Minnesota Vikings lost all 4 Super Bowl attempts in 1970s; accumulated 122 CFL wins and 168 NFL wins; also All-Big Ten at Minnesota in both football and basketball in late 1940s; a 3-time CFL All-Star offensive end; also member of 1950 NBA champion Minneapolis Lakers.
Source
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posted on
05/12/2004 2:09:20 PM PDT
by
csvset
To: 11Bush
I remember reading that he was a basketball player.
He also won a CFL Grey Cup, I believe.
He remains a great man - and still hunts and fishes.
The Vikes should be fun to watch this year with healthy backs, a new WR, and a juiced up defense.
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posted on
05/12/2004 2:09:42 PM PDT
by
Jonathan
To: 11Bush
Bud Grant played for the old Minneapolis Lakers. He was a fine all-around athlete.
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posted on
05/12/2004 6:50:16 PM PDT
by
Colonel_Flagg
("Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge." - Sir Winston Churchill)
To: Jonathan
If they field a defense like the Purple People Eaters, they just my have enough steam to go all the way this year.
Of course I have been saying that for the last 35 years.
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posted on
05/12/2004 6:52:28 PM PDT
by
11Bush
To: csvset
Thanks for he info. There are very few coaches that I hold in high regard. Bud Grant and Tom Landry head the list, and I hate the cowboys.
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posted on
05/12/2004 6:55:33 PM PDT
by
11Bush
To: SoDak
Former Minnesota Vikings Coach Talks About Conditions In Iraq
KELO-land News ^ | 05/11/2004 | Amanda Spicer
All I can say is that a reporter in South Dakota can be proud.
For having printed more truth about conditions in Iraq that ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/etc. combined.
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posted on
05/12/2004 7:02:57 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: 11Bush
Our D hasn't been the same since Dungy left. Last year it was painful to watch.
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posted on
05/12/2004 7:24:41 PM PDT
by
nonliberal
(Bush 2004: He is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.)
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