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The FReeper Foxhole Remembers MACV HQ and the TET Offensive (1968) - July 21st, 2005
Vietnam Magazine | February 2001 | LTC James Jay Carafano

Posted on 07/20/2005 9:37:05 PM PDT by SAMWolf

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To: w_over_w

As I recall cBS settled out of court. It makes one think that maybe they had something to hide.


21 posted on 07/21/2005 8:16:47 AM PDT by Valin (The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.)
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To: Valin
1975 Billy Martin fired as Texas Rangers manager

Martin got fired? How unusual!


Yankee Coach Billy Martin after a brawl the night before in a Seattle night club.

22 posted on 07/21/2005 8:19:40 AM PDT by w_over_w (If you wash camels for a living . . . which day of the week is "hump day"?)
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To: Valin
It makes one think that maybe they had something to hide.

Naaaw. Not CBS! The pillar of journalistic integrity? /grotesque sarcasm

23 posted on 07/21/2005 8:25:11 AM PDT by w_over_w (If you wash camels for a living . . . which day of the week is "hump day"?)
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To: Professional Engineer

Good choice. :-)


24 posted on 07/21/2005 9:54:51 AM PDT by SAMWolf (t+h838 *f#*D (SMACK!) MEEYOW!...and STAY off my keyboard!)
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To: bentfeather

Hi Feather. :-)


25 posted on 07/21/2005 9:55:18 AM PDT by SAMWolf (t+h838 *f#*D (SMACK!) MEEYOW!...and STAY off my keyboard!)
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To: Valin
Deaths which occurred on July 21:(-1)

2005 Montgomery Scott, Chief Engineer Enterprise aka James Montgomery Doohan

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) James Doohan, the beloved original "Star Trek" cast member who answered to "Beam me up, Scotty," died early Wednesday, July 20 at the age of 85. The veteran actor died from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease at his Redmond, Wash., home with wife Wende by his side.

`snip~

James Montgomery Doohan was born 1920, in Vancouver, British Columbia. At 19, he joined the Canadian army and was on the frontlines on D-Day. The war hero was shot several times, with one bullet blocked from hitting his chest by his silver cigarette case. Another bullet shredded his right middle finger, which was later amputated. The missing digit can occasionally be seen on screen, particularly on "Star Trek" episodes "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "Cats Paw."

Read more about it

26 posted on 07/21/2005 9:55:56 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Dining room, we don't need no stinkin dining room! Classroom space, on the other hand, is valuable.)
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To: Valin

Caution, listening to Dirt Weasel or the MSM Nightly News can be dangerous to your head.

27 posted on 07/21/2005 10:00:21 AM PDT by SAMWolf (t+h838 *f#*D (SMACK!) MEEYOW!...and STAY off my keyboard!)
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To: Valin

1796 Robert Burns Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies
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Robert Burns
Address To A Haggis
Poem lyrics of Address To A Haggis by Robert Burns.

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang's my arm.

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o' need,
While thro' your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.

His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An' cut ye up wi' ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich!

Then, horn for horn, they strech an' strive:
Deil tak the hindmost! on they drive,
Till a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve,
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
'Bethankit!' hums.

Is there that owre his French ragout
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi' perfect sconner,
Looks down wi' sneering, scornfu' view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckless as a wither'd rash,
His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro' bluidy flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He'll make it whissle;
An' legs, an' arms, an' heads will sned,
Like taps o' thrissle.

Ye Pow'rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o 'fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu' prayer,
Gie her a Haggis!


28 posted on 07/21/2005 10:01:36 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Dining room, we don't need no stinkin dining room! Classroom space, on the other hand, is valuable.)
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To: Valin
1997 200-year-old USS Constitution sails under its own power


29 posted on 07/21/2005 10:07:59 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Dining room, we don't need no stinkin dining room! Classroom space, on the other hand, is valuable.)
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To: bentfeather

Hi miss Feather

I brought home a junior sized sailor hat for Spiderboy. They did not have any Bittygirl sized. She didn't mind. She kept swiping Spiderboy's. I've got to get some pictures.


30 posted on 07/21/2005 10:10:24 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Dining room, we don't need no stinkin dining room! Classroom space, on the other hand, is valuable.)
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To: Professional Engineer; snippy_about_it; bentfeather; Samwise

I forgot to add, there were a number of active duty sailors about the Wisconson. I shook hands with and thanked as many as I could.


31 posted on 07/21/2005 10:12:11 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Dining room, we don't need no stinkin dining room! Classroom space, on the other hand, is valuable.)
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To: Valin
reminds me of the very popular handgrenade lure.

Copycats

32 posted on 07/21/2005 10:13:04 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Dining room, we don't need no stinkin dining room! Classroom space, on the other hand, is valuable.)
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To: SAMWolf

:-)


33 posted on 07/21/2005 10:13:48 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (Dining room, we don't need no stinkin dining room! Classroom space, on the other hand, is valuable.)
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To: Professional Engineer

Oh, I used to have a Sailor hat. I have pictures, too.


34 posted on 07/21/2005 10:24:39 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (This Little Light of Mine...)
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To: Professional Engineer

Well, she has this hat. :-)

35 posted on 07/21/2005 10:34:21 AM PDT by Soaring Feather (This Little Light of Mine...)
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To: snippy_about_it
Good afternoon SAM, snippy, everyone.

Intriguing revelation that top American commanders on the ground in Vietnam were seriously discussing the use of tactical nuclear weapons against the communists--I'd never read about that before. I learn something new everyday. Excellent thread.

Try to stay cool and safe, everybody! It's boiling hot in this part of the country, and from what I understand across a good part of the United States also. Be well.

General Westmoreland, R.I.P.

36 posted on 07/21/2005 11:03:35 AM PDT by A Jovial Cad ("A man's character is his fate." - Heraclitus)
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To: Professional Engineer
I've been in Norfolk, VA for 2 days.

* ahem *

37 posted on 07/21/2005 12:34:32 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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38 posted on 07/21/2005 1:30:18 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (Dining room, we don't need no stinkin dining room! Classroom space, on the other hand, is valuable.)
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To: Professional Engineer
....there were a number of active duty sailors about the Wisconson. I shook hands with and thanked as many as I could.

I'm so jealous!!

39 posted on 07/21/2005 2:13:35 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: snippy_about_it; SAMWolf
Greetings Foxhole regulars!

Things are going good (but really busy) here in the 911 Center, but I still like the job. It's the "shift work" that's hard to adjust to, after almost 10 years in the white collar world.

Time out: 16:23
KMG-365

40 posted on 07/21/2005 2:23:45 PM PDT by Johnny Gage (Democrat + SUV = oxymoron)
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