FReeper Canteen - Scuttlebutt - 19 Jan 2012

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[luvie]

Thanks and glad you enjoyed them! They always make me smile, too! :)

Hope you are having a good week!

[ConorMacNessa]

FREEDOM ISN’T FREE!

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It is purchased with the blood of Patriots!

Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!

[TASMANIANRED]

Evening BigLook, Hugs.

Travel plans firming up yet?

[Oiao]

GET SOME!

Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

Best to you and yours.

Semper Fi.

[AZamericonnie]

Oh Janie that pic is Adorable!!!! *Hugs*

So how are things down under these days? Flights going well?

[Oiao]

GET SOME!

Awesome. Thanks for sharing.

Best to you and yours.

Semper Fi.

[SkyDancer]

Hi - well thankfully everyone in our district is behaving themselves. Nothing major they can’t handle from their own kit. I’m usually at the critter center down the path from us and am within a few minutes of the office should I be needed. I do the occasional maintenance flight though. (((hugs))

[Publius]

Hey, Tas. Part 1 of the Burt Bachrach songbook coming up Friday.

First Tea Party meeting that I've actually run was last night. Went well. Group is dwindling, though.

[ConorMacNessa]

In light of the recent brouhaha over a couple of Marines allegedly posthumously baptizing a cell of Taliban terrorists, I feel compelled to post the following narrative by a great American of the treatment he received at the hands of our enemies. Not for the faint of heart.

"I got shot down over N Vietnam in 1967, a Sqdn. Commander.

After I returned in 1973...I published 2 books that dealt a lot With "real torture" in Hanoi . Our make-believe president is Branding our country as a bunch of torturers when he has No idea what torture is.

As for me, I was put thru a mock execution because I would not respond... Pistol whipped on the head....same event.. Couple of days later... Hung by my feet all day. I escaped and a couple of weeks later, I got Shot and recaptured. Shot was OK...what happened afterwards was not.

They marched me to Vinh...put me in the rope trick, trick...almost Pulled my arms out of the sockets. Beat me on the head with a Little wooden rod until my eyes were swelled shut, and my unshot, Unbroken hand a pulp.

Next day hung me by the arms...rebroke my right wrist...wiped Out the nerves in my arms that control the hands....rolled my fingers Up into a ball. Only left the slightest movement of my L forefinger. So I started answering with some incredible lies.

Sent me to Hanoi strapped to a barrel of gas in the back of a truck.

Hanoi ...on my knees....rope trick again. Beaten by a big fool.

Into leg irons on a bed in Heartbreak Hotel

Much kneeling--hands up at Zoo.

Really bad beating for refusing to condemn Lyndon Johnson.

Several more kneeling events. I could see my knee bone thru Kneeling holes.

There was an escape from the annex to the Zoo. I was the Senior Officer of a large building because of escape..they started a mass Torture of all commanders.

I think it was July 7, 1969...they started beating me with a car fanbelt. In first 2 days I took over 300 strokes...then stopped counting Because I never thought I would live thru it.

They continued day-night torture to get me to confess to a non-existent Part in the escape. This went on for at least 3 days. On my knees... Fan belting...cut open my scrotum with fan belt stroke. Opened up Both knee holes again. My fanny looked like hamburger...I could not Lie on my back.

They tortured me into admitting that I was in on the escape...and That my 2 room-mates knew about it.

The next day I denied the lie.

They commenced torturing me again with 3- 6- or 9 strokes of The fan belt every day from about July 11 or 12th..to 14 October 1969. I continued to refuse to lie about my roommates again

Now, the point of this is that our make-believe President has declared to the world that we (U.S..) are a bunch of Torturers...Thus it will be OK to torture us next time when they Catch us...because that is what the U.S. Does.

Our make-believe president is a know nothing fool who thinks That pouring a little water on some one's face, or hanging a pair of women's pants over an Arabs head is TORTURE.. He is a meathead.

I just talked to MOH holder Leo Thorsness, who was also in my squadron, In jail...as was John McCain...and we agree that McCain does Not speak for the POW group when he claims that Al Gharib was Torture...or that "water boarding" is torture.

Our president and those fools around him who keep bad mouthing Our great country are a disgrace to the United States . Please pass This info on to Sean Hannity. He is free to use it to point out the Stupidity of the claims that water boarding...which has no after Effect...is torture.

If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC ... Hurrah for the guy who poured the water."

"Bud" Day, Medal Of Honor Recipient

George Everett "Bud" Day(born February 24, 1925) is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and Command Pilot who served during the Vietnam War. He is often cited as being the most decorated U.S. Service member since General Douglas MacArthur, having Received some seventy decorations, a majority for actions In combat. Day is a recipient of the Medal of Honor.

Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!

[SkyDancer]

The baby is looking like “Hey pops, waddya stop fer? Sis can’t keep up or what?”

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Taz! ((HUGS))

Trip has been delayed due to unxpected circumstances. But taking the trip is a rather simple affair and I'm ready to go any time.

[luvie]

Thank you, Conor....and a big AMEN!!

[ConorMacNessa]

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Tattoo

Must retire – the 0500 Reveille approaches relentlessly – the bugler already mounts the parapet. Will chat with you all on the morrow.

Good night, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America!

Godspeed our Troops around the Globe – especially those in harm’s way – by virtue of their service and sacrifice we continue to live in Freedom!

Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Doc!

Glad you published that.....we were briefed at SERE on to expect after having completed the course and told it was nothing like what we just went through. The briefings were conducted by a former Australian Coast Watcher and a couple WWII POW survivors. Didn't have any of our captured aviators back at the time.

[Kathy in Alaska]

God Bless you good, Mac. Good night and rest well. Thanks for helping honor our troops, past and present. Thank you for your service to our country.

[Gene Eric]

>> In light of the recent brouhaha over a couple of Marines allegedly posthumously baptizing a cell of Taliban terrorists...

VIP bttt.

[AZamericonnie]

We used to joke that he was the most handsome man at his own funeral, which he was.

What a great epitaph!

[AZamericonnie]

Check this...*click*

[AZamericonnie]

Thanks to George Everett “Bud” Day for his service. Thank God such men lived!

[AZamericonnie]

Hiya Taz...shift going well? I have a sink full of dishes calling my name...if I change my name you think they would shut up? Me either.:)