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Vietnam Vet In Famous Photo Dies
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Posted on 12/27/2005 3:54:33 PM PST by lunarbicep
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To: tet68
Too often, a hero is simply the last guy left standing; or, in the words of Pogo when answering the comment, "Pity the people without a hero," calmly said, "Pity the people who need one."
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posted on
12/27/2005 5:57:07 PM PST
by
Old Professer
(Fix the problem, not the blame!)
To: righttackle44; HoustonCurmudgeon
I love all of you too!
GOD BLESS THE MARINES!
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posted on
12/27/2005 5:57:12 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(Smartest words ever written by a Communist: "Show me the way to the next Whiskey Bar")
To: Past Your Eyes
One day, after my wife and I had been married awhile, she referred to my father as a "rubberneck". When we stopped laughing we explained that the term was leatherneck.
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posted on
12/27/2005 5:58:03 PM PST
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there.)
To: ed1340
You said it better than I did. Thank you.
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posted on
12/27/2005 6:01:01 PM PST
by
Past Your Eyes
(We're just sitting here on the Group W bench.)
To: lunarbicep
You are way too polite.
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posted on
12/27/2005 6:02:57 PM PST
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: 'Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake But Accurate, Experts Say.')
To: ChildOfThe60s
Did she also call him a "bottlehead"? ";^)
You've got to do something about that tag line. Not all of us that came of age in the '60s were like that. In fact, I rather suspect that I am definitely in the majority. I think we've discussed this before.
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posted on
12/27/2005 6:04:40 PM PST
by
Past Your Eyes
(We're just sitting here on the Group W bench.)
To: lunarbicep
Your post reminded me of another fairly well known photo out of Vietnam. The fellow with the chest wound is Eugene Hodges of Lufkin, Texas, my neighbor and acquaintance in the 1960s. His family lived about four homes down from my family on what is now Brentwood Drive. Unfortunately, Eugene died from the wounds he received that day. It nearly destroyed his parents when they first saw the photo in, I believe Life Magazine, because it was published about the same time as Eugene's funeral. A short story of the photo can be found at http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0107/ss08.htm.
Muleteam1
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posted on
12/27/2005 6:22:37 PM PST
by
Muleteam1
(Thank LBJ for this conservative having not voted for a Democrat since the 1960s.)
To: ed1340
"Marines are a department in the Navy".
No way, Jose! The Marines are a separate Independent Service in the Department of the Navy.
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posted on
12/27/2005 6:27:41 PM PST
by
BnBlFlag
(Deo Vindice/Semper Fidelis)
To: BnBlFlag; ed1340
"Marines are a department in the Navy". Yes, the MENS department...
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posted on
12/27/2005 6:31:56 PM PST
by
null and void
(A fanatic is one who won't change his mind and won't change the subject - Churchill)
To: ed1340
but the marines are a department of the U.S. Navy. Yes, the MEN'S DEPARTMENT
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posted on
12/27/2005 6:46:39 PM PST
by
RaceBannon
((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
To: lunarbicep
I remember the event and the photo. I was 16 and living in Sioux Falls at the time. Several friends were inspired by the picture and the story to enter the Marines over the next couple of years, including me.
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posted on
12/27/2005 6:50:30 PM PST
by
RJS1950
(The rats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: Past Your Eyes
Did she also call him a "bottlehead"? ";^) Ha ha. Nope, though she might have done it to tease him had she known the term.
You've got to do something about that tag line.
Nah, I like it. However, your objection is duly noted. :-)
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posted on
12/27/2005 7:17:50 PM PST
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there.)
To: Gay State Conservative
.Her having stuck with him is,IMO,an act of true love *and* bravery.No bravery needed when you love someone.
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posted on
12/27/2005 7:21:52 PM PST
by
ladyjane
To: ChildOfThe60s
Zoomie, Jarhead, Squid, and Grunt When I die I have it already in my will that I should be buried with my buddies in the Natl' Cemetery.
God Bless all of our veterans.
To: vetvetdoug
God Bless all of our veterans. Amen.
My Dad is buried at the national cemetery in Bushnell, FL. It is sobering and inspiring to visit there.
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posted on
12/27/2005 8:05:08 PM PST
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s......you weren't really there.)
To: lunarbicep
"This is what they tried to portray me as the big war hero and i'm not. I was just one of the injured." Quite a contrast to John Kerry.
To: righttackle44
You are the emperor of sarcasm. Wow I am truly humbled. That is so going to leave a mark.
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posted on
12/27/2005 10:40:48 PM PST
by
jokar
(As Christmas Day 2005, google will no longer be my homepage. http://www.scroogle.org/)
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