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"The press clamored for Franks to brief, but he did so only three times during his weeks in the war zone. When he returned to Tampa last month, there was no victory ceremony or parade. Franks and his top aides were met by their families at the MacDill Air Force Base terminal in Tampa and gathered privately afterwards. There was no TV coverage."

This is the mark of a "CLASS ACT" and those who were under his command will go to their graves respecting him for not taking the credit for their victory. The fact is Tommy Franks is a class act.

If I ever get the chance to go to Midland Texas, I'm going to force my 2 Grandsons to drink lots of their water, as the Mazda commercial says "Sumtins Up" in Midland Texas :-)

[Positive]

This is a great post.

I'm wondering if anyone here has a transcipt or knows where I can find one, of Gen. Franks' first breifing from Qatar. I remember that he started it off with an enumeration of the mission goals, then defined some accronyms, like SAR and/or GAD or others.

I was away from home that morning (6AM PST) so I couldn't tape the breifing - I think it would have been on March 21st.

[Dog Gone]

If I ever get the chance to go to Midland Texas, I'm going to force my 2 Grandsons to drink lots of their water, as the Mazda commercial says "Sumtins Up" in Midland Texas :-)

The tap water in Midland tastes horrible, and if you make ice cubes out of it, you'll have a white residue at the bottom of your drink when you're done. Many of the residents have reverse osmosis units for drinking water.

But the town is filled with wonderful people. If we could make one city an honorary Freeper, it would be Midland. I don't know where the George W Bush Presidential library will be built, but Midland would be an excellent choice.