The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Combat Medics - Feb. 6th, 2004

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[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the link GailA.

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Morning Aeronaut

Now there's a plane I haven't heard of in years.

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Morning E.G.C.

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Good Morning Mayor

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Thanks for the link mark502inf.

There has to be a special place in heaven for Medics and Corpsmen

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Morning Johnny.

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Morning Cholera Joe. Snippy did a great job today.

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Morning PE.

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"Real Heroes" don't need to remind everyone that they're a "War Hero".

John F. Kerry, War Zero

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Johnny. You and Aeronaut coordinating your planes? ;-)

[Professional Engineer]

Here's a hero for ya'

[SAMWolf]

1833 James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart Major General (Commander of Cavalry, Confederate Army)

President Reagan shares his birthday with a Son of the South.

[SAMWolf]

Morning Feather.

[Professional Engineer]

This is a good one

[Valin]

There was a BBC series on my PBS station last sunday, It's called Warrior Challenge. They take a group of people and have them live and fight as someone from ancient or medieval times. In one two guys were learning to fight as knights, they pointed out that the fluting was designed to direct a sword/spear point away from the knight.

If you ever get a chance to see it, it's not bad(a little PC but I've come to expect and ignore that).

[SAMWolf]

A Medic's Heart

The battlefield was bloody, there were bullets everywhere
You could hear the SOUND of chaos, it seemed to penetrate the air.

My job as a medic was to do ALL that I could do
To save a wounded life and help them make it through.

But there were times that even I, had NO role to play
For death would come to ravage and steal a life away!

In anguish I cried out ~ "Where are You, my God"
"Why have you left me helpless ~ Why don't You make it stop?"

In confusion I felt anger as I watched the soldiers die
For I could not understand and there was no time to cry.

Now, the battlefield's behind me, only memories plague my mind
But my heart is slowly healing through God's comfort that I find.

You see, I KNOW that God was with me, He NEVER left my side
And HE was with EACH soldier the moment that they died.

So even though it's difficult to understand it all
I cannot turn my back nor run away from God.

For someday He will tell my ~ WHY it had to be
Why others died in my arms, yet no harm came to me.

Maybe God selected ME to comfort, soothe and calm
Until He, Himself, could come, and wrap them in HIS arms.

So, for WHATEVER reason, my heart will lean on Him
For His ways are not my ways and my ways are not His!

Yes, Only Jesus has the answers ~ Only HE will hold the key
To everything in this life that takes it's burdened toll on me!

Written For Corpsman and Medics
2003

Terese Holloway

[Valin]

What's the old saying, when you met someone who was playing the role.
"I remember you! Didn't you win the war?"

[SAMWolf]

Here;'s the sticker that was supposed to be in post #49

[SAMWolf]

You'd think Kerry won the war singler handed the way he;s talking. Hope it ends up backfiring on him

[SAMWolf]

IMHO, the best President of the 20th Century.