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| epluribus_2
Posted on 11/08/2004 8:39:55 AM PST by epluribus_2
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To: Timeout; mystery-ak; TexKat; bitt; Conservababe; Otta B Sleepin; prairiebreeze; ...
Tommy Franks was a "surprise" guest/speaker at the presidents rally in Westlake, Ohio a few days before the election. About 24,000 people went ballistic when he was introduced.. and we thought the surprise prior of Bob Dole was kewl. tommy franks was hard hitting (like zell) on the stump.
The teens (thousands) were hoping for Barbara Bush (and not 43's mom)
went to sleep early last night.. and what is the old saying early to bed, early to rise etc... but getting up at 3 AM is ridiculous.
Think I will go to food store. No crowds, no lines.. and only a few mile drive.
cold here in NE Ohio..we had our first frost last night.
881
posted on
11/09/2004 1:23:06 AM PST
by
DollyCali
(Winning isn't everything. But losing really sucks. Sorry sKerry. You're a loser in all respects.)
To: Ostlandr
"IMHO we need a slower, cheaper, much heavier armored tank for urban warfare." IIRC - At Kursk the Soviets rolled their big, heavy, slow, un-maneuvrable, very heavily armored tanks (K7? T7?) into the middle of the fight, parked there, and blew the sh** out of the Germans. There does seem to be a time and a place for everything.
882
posted on
11/09/2004 1:39:28 AM PST
by
norton
To: sdpatriot; Conservababe; Ragtime Cowgirl; prairiebreeze; Peach; lysie; MozartLover; ...
If you have never been to the profile page of Ragtime Cowgirl, you are in for a information bonanza..and beautifully presented.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~ragtimecowgirl/
She loves the troops and has mucho articles about them, the good stuff etc.
Ragtime can you help????
.. do you have the link to the tread that we had on Mike/Aprils (Geegar Guy) information & her posts?
His registration name was not Ceegar Guy, but something similar.
883
posted on
11/09/2004 1:54:39 AM PST
by
DollyCali
(Winning isn't everything. But losing really sucks. Sorry sKerry. You're a loser in all respects.)
To: epluribus_2
We can hear very distant concussive noises coming from the west.
We're pretty sure it's coming from Fallujah.
884
posted on
11/09/2004 1:56:57 AM PST
by
Allegra
(Get Over it Democrats...It's Over.)
To: sdpatriot
Got it this morning sdpatriot. Sorry I went to bed on you last night. I was more tired than I knew.
885
posted on
11/09/2004 6:45:11 AM PST
by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
To: DollyCali; sdpatriot; Conservababe
886
posted on
11/09/2004 7:13:15 AM PST
by
TexKat
(Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
To: Timeout
Ohhhh thank you!
And it wasn't even my birthday.
887
posted on
11/09/2004 7:25:04 AM PST
by
najida
(I shop for my fillet mignon at Walmart.)
To: TexKat
well, bless your heart TexKat!
that just makes my day... and many days to come..
i would have to say the eye patch makes Cee-gar man look even more wickedly handsome.. it's so good to see him looking very fit and healthy. Lordy, the United States Military is goodlooking.. i love looking at them.
thanks so much for posting this.. my best to him and April.. i appreciate all they have given so much.
To: sdpatriot
889
posted on
11/09/2004 12:24:22 PM PST
by
umbagi
(Monthly donor [entry level] ("Sixty-Six in 06!" -- Jim Robinson))
To: norton
Ah, Kursk. The Russian KV-1 heavy tanks were slow, but they did have excellent armor. The T-34 (possibly the best tank of the war) was more like an Abrams- very fast, good armor protection, good (not great) gun.
What happened at Kursk is, the Germans delayed their assault for weeks waiting for the new Panther tanks (arguably the first true modern tank) to be delivered. This gave the Russians time to build up real serious defenses. Most of the Panthers ended up breaking down on the way to the battlefield (tranny problems.)
After the Germans fought their way through the Soviet defenses and began to advance, the Russians counterattacked with a huge armored force. Both forces came up onto the crest of a hill and right into the teeth of each other. It was a knife fight, the close range negating the German armor and gunnery. Imagine two thousand tanks swirling around each other like soldiers in a swordfight. Both sides took horrible losses, but in the end the Germans retreated- the first step in the long retreat back to Berlin.
890
posted on
11/10/2004 9:57:20 PM PST
by
Ostlandr
(Nationalist, small-r republican, fiscal conservative, social liberal, pagan. NOT a Bush partisan!)
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