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Just a thought in my older age no one talks about
swlf ^ | October 4, 2022 | knarf

Posted on 10/14/2022 10:03:24 AM PDT by knarf



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KEYWORDS: memories; swlf; vanity
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To: Rappini

51st Sig Bn, just up the MSR from y’


101 posted on 10/14/2022 12:10:28 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Howie66

+1

5.56mm


102 posted on 10/14/2022 12:16:14 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go)
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To: Az Joe

“Ohhh I like the way you think.”

I remarked to a retired State Trooper I know that I’m not the protesting sort of guy. He said, “No, you’re the ‘burn down their houses, slaughter their livestock, and string them up on a tree’ kind of guy.”

*shrug*. Never done that. Yet.


103 posted on 10/14/2022 12:18:56 PM PDT by quikstrike98
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To: Howie66; knarf

Re the point:

Because you guys were and still ARE the best American sons that this country produced, brother.

You STOOD when others cowered and crawled.

‘Rah.


104 posted on 10/14/2022 12:30:01 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.She was, indeed, a hottie… Rest in peace, Joanne.)
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To: knarf

The ones who served in Korea were simply forgotten.


105 posted on 10/14/2022 12:32:04 PM PDT by roving ( Pronouns- libs/suk)
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To: Flatus I. Maximus
Running around waving Ukranian flags and trying to get us into a nuclear war with Russia.

No. Medea Benjamin (co-founder of Code Pink) is proposing cutting off aid to Ukraine and forcing a diplomatic solution. She has a new book "War in Ukraine." It's just not being covered much by the media.
106 posted on 10/14/2022 12:39:49 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Flatus I. Maximus
<>Running around waving Ukranian flags and trying to get us into a nuclear war with Russia.

Trying to defeat Russia's pattern of invading its neighbors before it gets to a NATO country is not "trying to get us into a nuclear war with Russia". It is the opposite.

Helping Ukraine defeat Russia will prevent Russia from invading someplace like Latvia which would require our soldiers to fight on the front lines.

Russia's school yard bully style threats to use tactical nuclear weapons show how Putin is failing both politically and militarily.

107 posted on 10/14/2022 12:41:06 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing

Medea Benjamin (co-founder of Code Pink) is voicing opposition the military aid packages to Ukraine. She notes there was not one vote against it from Democrats, and on the issue she is aligned with the “extreme right” and Donald Trump.


108 posted on 10/14/2022 12:48:16 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: knarf

If I hadn’t enlisted in 1964 when I was 17 (they called it a “kiddie cruise”, since I was scheduled to be released when I reached age 21) – I most likely would have been drafted into the Army and been wounded or worse. As luck would have it, I enlisted into the Navy just before the ‘Gulf Tonkin Incident’ when the term Vietnam was not yet a household name – I couldn’t locate it on a map. After radioman school, I was assigned to COMCARDIV 3 at NAS Alameda. Being on a Rear Admiral’s staff, we served on many aircraft carriers in WestPAC. I never really thought much about the right or wrong of that war. And, like many others, I just served my unit and did my duty. Now I look back at those days and realize the uselessness of it all and still have deep feelings for the many lives lost in vain. I don’t believe I’m alone in these feelings.


109 posted on 10/14/2022 12:49:20 PM PDT by vortigern
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To: ought-six
Our stories are quite similar, my good FRiend.

Fu Manchu mustache and Beatles haircut happened immediately after hon sep. I made full use of the GI Bill right after USAF, and ended up doing better in college (after 4 years mil) than I did in HS.

Sadly, many of my former mil brethren (and sisteren) didn't use their GI Bill at all. I do wonder if some feared rejection from potential classmates.

110 posted on 10/14/2022 12:52:00 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: tet68

“Isn’t it odd, that there are no anti-war protestors nowadays?”

It’s a question I ask myself every now and then. I think they like War. I think they like government waste Fraud and Abuse and these people that are running the country now were the Vietnam War protesters!

They didn’t hate War, I think they loved War they just didn’t want to participate so they wanted to end the draft. And as evidenced... “by their fruits ye shall know them.”


111 posted on 10/14/2022 12:52:26 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Clutch Martin

There are very few truly anti-war people, just people who think we’re fighting for the wrong side.


112 posted on 10/14/2022 12:53:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: knarf

I don’t blame any soldier that served. But, our Government and some military brass were definitely not all they could be. Byron was all he could be for the USMC until August 1, 1966, when he didn’t pay enough attention to where he stepped. The night before they had his unit showing Disney movies to the locals. He’d be about 79 this year. I’d love to hear his opinion.


113 posted on 10/14/2022 12:54:11 PM PDT by RickyW
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To: roving

I was peace time Korea 65-67


114 posted on 10/14/2022 12:55:22 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Chad_the_Impaler
It is not surprising that Medea Benjamin pushes ideas that benefit Russia instead of Ukraine. In other conflicts she has sided with civilians suffering from violence but she has historically been a dedicated Communist revolutionary so she probably has to go along with Russia's plans.

Her daughter Arlen is named after Sandinista revolutionary Arlen Siu, with her daughter once writing "I grew up believing that protest lines and teach-ins were normal family outings ... I was born in Cuba to an Afro-Cuban father and Jewish-American mother, and the fact that I was named for the first woman to die fighting for the Nicaraguan [Sandinista] Revolution gives you an idea of my politically oriented upbringing"

Source

115 posted on 10/14/2022 12:56:22 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: vortigern
Something about Signal Corps/radio ops.

I was Radio Teletype operator . . a very skate MOS

116 posted on 10/14/2022 12:57:44 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Seaplaner

I think we ALL did better in college after 4 years in the military, than we did before we went in.


117 posted on 10/14/2022 1:29:23 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: tet68

I think we have to be in a war before they can protest it.

Americans are not dying in a war anywhere.


118 posted on 10/14/2022 1:30:39 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Howie66

Self respect. That’s why I served in USAF 1968-1972.


119 posted on 10/14/2022 1:57:17 PM PDT by Rowdyone (Vigilence)
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To: quikstrike98

A life sentence means less to me everyday

lol


120 posted on 10/14/2022 4:43:11 PM PDT by Az Joe (Biden & ChiComs are the enemy, not Putin.)
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