AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL.. AND SELFISH, AND SPOILED....

CookingWithCarlo.com ^ | Sept 13, 2003 | Unknown

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

Thank you. Actually, I don't really qualify as a 'hero,' I just hope that I can say with a straight face (to paraphrase "Saving Private Ryan") that I "earned this..."

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

I promise you, I am no troll. (Though I have spent time in New Orc City... nyuk nyuk).

[sandmanbr]

Restores my faith in silent majority in this country.....thanks for the ping

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

BTW, love your homepage...

I have a homepage? I'll check it out. (Thanks, it would be better if I ever learn to post photos. I have some great ones from Scotland, Germany and southern Africa.)

[Eva]

it certainly won't help you find a job.

I don't know about that, when my husband was in charge of hiring for a division of a fortune 500 company for 8 1/2 years, he made it a point to check service records, while doing background checks, and always gave veterans priority.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

A troll? No. I'm simply unkind to those I see as supporting the great evil that occurred in the Balkans.

[Inspectorette]

carlo, thank you so much! Yes, I'm reaching for the Kleenex, too!

God Bless our wonderful military men and women! I'm so proud of our son-in-law Eric, stationed on Okinawa, who just got promoted to Major, USMC!

[Jorge]

Beautiful.
Thanks for posting!

[Neenah]

I got it last week too. But love your ping, Carlo ! Have a good night.

[Dutchgirl]

I came back from my wartime service in Bosnia and was unable to find work for over a year

My Dad, a former Lt. Col in the USAF, with security clearance that allowed him to have Kissinger as his passenger, worked collecting tires for a retread company for a year after he left the Air Force.

While working as 2nd in command under Chang Kai Chek, he was given a parting gift of a silver plated wrench mounted on a plaque, calling him "The Flying Mechanic," in response to his willingness to roll up his sleeves for anything mechanical- aircraft or scooter. He bought a Phillips 66 franchise 6 months before the oil embargo and lost everything.

It didn't matter. At the time of his death, he owned 6 aircraft and the cars that followed us to the graveyard stretched over two miles down the turnpike.

My friend Milo served his country honorably. Now he is a "war criminal" and can't go home. He never had a trial.

My brother was spit on when he came home from Viet Nam.

My employer was on the "Kitty Hawk" when they had a race riot.

No one in his right mind goes into the military for "glory." There is no glory in war. Just fighting for your convictions and being a part of something greater than yourself.

My Dad loved the line in Patton where he said, "No one ever won a war by dying for his country."

It has been my experience that if one must be unemployed anywhere in the world, this is the country to do it in...

[Dutchgirl]

I refer to this...

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." ~ Mark Twain ~

"There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." ~ Will Rogers ~

"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive." ~ Thomas Sowell ~

"I know its hard on America. And in some small corner of this vast country in Nevada or Idaho, these places I've never been but always wanted to go, there's a guy getting on with his life, perfectly happily, minding his own business, saying to you the political leaders of this nation: why me? Why us? Why America?
And the only answer is: because destiny put you in this place in history, in this moment in time and the task is yours to do." ~Tony Blair British PM, before Congress, 17 July 2003~

I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

I know God won't give me more than I can handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.

If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.><>

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

Clinton lacked only three things to have become one of America's finest leaders: integrity, vision, and wisdom.

[freekitty]

"A wonderful story. Even if it's not true, it should be."

I agree with you.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

OH THAT homepage! ;-)

[xJones]

Thanks for the thread, Carlo. I've met one returning young vet and thanked him for his service. It's really important that this generation is not treated the same way some Viet Nam vets were.

[Trust but Verify]

I was just pointing out this has been posted numerous times already.

[Exit148]

True or not, but I wondered how I would be in that same scenario. I would be pi**ed if a celeb or a 'star' (whatever that means) or a pol (we know what that means) held us up. And I would have been angry that the airline had put them first-over other paying passengers.

I also truely believe That I would have cheered any service men who came on late, and would have been delighted that the airline had waited for them.

It's hard to think I would have been alone.

[Alamo-Girl]

Buuuump!

[wizardoz]

My mom always said if you dont have anything nice to say, shut your *&^#%**% mouth.

Geez. Does she have a lot of tattoos and talk with a cigarette dangling out of her mouth?

[baseballmom]

I also received this email last week or so. I choose to believe it's true.

Thanks for the ping.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks so much for posting this, Carlo.

Bump!