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To: yldstrk
Read the article, he was boozing pill popping adulterer

"Show me a hero, and I'll show you a bum."
WW II ace Greg "Pappy" Boyington

By the way, if you delve deeper into Boyington's life, it becomes apparent that by "bum" he meant someone who was wildly out of the mainstream, not someone who was lazy.

18 posted on 06/29/2014 7:40:58 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Leaning Right

“I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.”


43 posted on 06/29/2014 8:57:49 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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