Posted on 07/27/2005 7:36:35 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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Click here to see pictures from Patton Museum.
Since this is joke day, I did come up with t T shirt idea. Since Knox is the home of Armor, I want to get a T shirt with the picture of a tank and the following words.
Shall I continue with my confessions??
Yikes, cb!!
COOL!!!! Someday I hope to see that museum!! We always hit the Air museums, but I've never been to a tank museum!!
Yikes . . that is one butt ugly kid . . . LOL!!!
The leaves are good with warm melted butter.
Nope. Not gonna do it.
*G*
Thanks for the field trip.
I don't like any of them! LOL!
Hiya Hope. How does your garden grow? Do the grapes get to grow this year?
Oh no....a 3 hour power outage!!!!! ((HUGS)) Glad all is well.
He said that Patton before he died sent back a large amount of German weapons.. including tanks, rifles, anti tank and artillery pieces. They are all on display as well as all the weapons and uniforms used by the 3rd Army in WWII. Patton wanted to have our troops use them. He felt we could learn from using other nations weapons... both what to do and what not to do in weapon design.
In addition there are American and Russian tanks and anti tank weapons from Korea to the present day.
They had just brought back from Iraq a Russian T-72 tank. The Iraqi's had rerouted the exhaust from the rear of the tank to the front so the exhaust would not blow up sand and give the tanks position away.
With with the warthogs and infrared.. there is no way for a Russian tank to hide in Iraq.
The Marine made the case that much of what Patton did with tanks was very similar to what Stonewall Jackson did with Cavalry in the Civil War. The Marine used a sand table to show the similarity of what Patton did in France to what Stonewall did in Virginia. It was quite interesting.
The Patton Museum is not nearly as big as the Air Force Museum.. but it is very interesting.
I think you would enjoy it.
Wow are you having a great time! You have some awesome cousins, Diva...it's great how they and the neighbors have figured out how to take care of you...as if you really needed any taking care of!
Do you think your friend up the street can replace the starter in a '93 Dodge Dakota? Will he come pick it up and tow it back there for me? No...? Oh well, worth a try.
Say hi to everyone for us. Piper does likewise!
And ends on Friday. Gotta sign off on the end of pay period time sheets......and look forward to the week end!
Your t-shirt idea is a good one....it reminded me of a sign on one of the freeways out here..."Drive hammered, Get nailed!" lol
It is way more preferable! Reality is okay in small doses, but as a lifestyle, it's much too confining.
Actually we did catch a half ton of fish........all small fry. Had to toss 'em back (except for some big channel cats).
The way I see it, Michigan fishermen owe me Big Time for fattening up their stock!
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