The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Four Chaplains(2/2/1943) - Mar 24th, 2004

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[Valin]

May I am, and maybe I'm not.

[Valin]

Ours was the group that had the Iraqi show up and thank America and Bush for liberating his country. The main protesters did not like that at all. We really pissed them off.

Darn and me being fresh out of sympathy, wouldn't you know it.

[PhilDragoo]

[SAMWolf]

Spitwads everywhere!

ROTFL. I hope you don't expect Snippy to clean up agter you people.

[SAMWolf]

Evening Phil Dragoo.

Good Flick. You had to love the "Cooler King's" attitude.

[PhilDragoo]

The founders built this on that rock; those chaplains were chosen as God's rock.

And I believe the schmuck exploiting his daughter in his vile attempt to remove under God from the Pledge is going down to Kelvinville.

Today's inspiring diorama is reminiscent of another 911 tale of sacrifice.

Rick Rescorla.

Dan Hill says that Susan will understand someday, as he does. "What she doesn't understand is that she knew him for four or five years. She knew a sixty-two-year-old man with cancer. I knew him as a hundred-and-eighty-pound, six-foot-one piece of human machinery that would not quit, that did not know defeat, that would not back off one inch. In the middle of the greatest battle of Vietnam, he was singing to the troops, saying we're going to rip them a new asshole, when everyone else was worrying about dying. If he had come out of that building and someone died who he hadn't tried to save, he would have had to commit suicide.

"I've tried to tell Susan this, in a way, but she's not ready yet for the truth. In the next weeks or months, I'll get her down here, and we'll take a walk along the ocean, and I'll explain these things. You see, for Rick Rescorla, this was a natural death. People like Rick, they don't die old men. They aren't destined for that and it isn't right for them to do so. It just isn't right, by God, for them to become feeble, old, and helpless sons of bitches. There are certain men born in this world, and they're supposed to die setting an example for the rest of the weak bastards we're surrounded with."

THE REAL HEROES ARE DEAD

It's long and I read the whole thing.

Look at what he did at Ia Drang, then his prescience of WTC I & II.

And finally at his having drilled those 3700 people for two years to survive that one day--which he would not.

John Kerry got three purple bandaids and bugged out--[spit].

God Bless the real heroes who have directed this nation to safety in every crisis.

Grateful acknowledgement to ALOHA RONNIE and http://www.lzxray.com/

[SAMWolf]

Thanks Phil. I have to keep hoping for the best for America. For every Clinton and Kerry there are 100 people like Rick Rescorla and the Four Chaplains. Our history is filled with tem and they're the ones that keep the hope alive.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[snippy_about_it]

Thank you Phil for this excellent post. It's men like the four chaplains and Rick Rescorla that keeps us faithful during trying times as we worry about the direction our country is going.

[snippy_about_it]

Spitwads. LOL. I can see it now. And knowing y'all, not a one of you will admit who did what. All for one and one for all.

[Professional Engineer]

Te he he

[NFOShekky]

This story should be translated into arabic and broadcast to these muslim dogs to give them an idea of what type of enemy they have taken on! They can never win and will never win. As different we are and as much as we squabble amongst ourselves, we manage to rise and stand together and to crush anyone who comes against us! Let the ragheads beware!