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Are You New To Free Republic? New Or Not- Fly Your State/Country Flag!
5/19/02

Posted on 05/19/2002 11:31:29 AM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!

There are still lots of FReepers who have not chosen to fly their flag. You don't have to provide any additional information, although lots of FReepers have provide pictures, e-mail addresses, and the like, you don't have to! It would be nice if you would at least "fly your flag".

This allows other FReepers in your state to FReepmail you to let you know about local FR events - rallies, chapter meetings, and other activist events.

Even if you don't plan to participate, it'll keep you informed of what is happening in your state. Now, FLY YOUR FLAGS!

Even if you don't care to "fly the flag" of your state, at least select United States as your country so that you'll be flying Old Glory. Selecting your "Location" on your FReeper Profile doesn't provide any real information about you that can be used in any meaningfully underhanded ways.

So don't hesitate today. Go to your personal profile page.

Just click on the link I just provided and select Edit Profile. There, you can select the flag you want to fly under (by using the location drop-down list) and post a few tidbits about yourself if you wish.



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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!

Thanks and bumping

81 posted on 05/19/2002 8:35:45 PM PDT by AmerRepb
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
In Honor of my Brothers who can not be here.

82 posted on 05/19/2002 8:36:16 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: AmerRepb;poet
This picture goes with the poem in post 70.
83 posted on 05/19/2002 8:41:14 PM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
It is my honor and pleasure to bump this tribute.
84 posted on 05/19/2002 8:43:28 PM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
Read post 64.or can you not decide which flag to fly?
85 posted on 05/19/2002 8:46:58 PM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Good idea! And, maybe add that they tell a little about themselves on their page (just so you know who you are flaming ;-) ).
86 posted on 05/19/2002 8:48:19 PM PDT by Bella_Bru
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!

Here is another Eagle that goes well with the poem.

87 posted on 05/19/2002 8:52:27 PM PDT by AmerRepb
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
"can you not decide which flag to fly?"

hehehe
88 posted on 05/19/2002 9:03:46 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: AmerRepb
Great pic AR. You have great pics on your profile page as well. Thanks for sharing them with us.
89 posted on 05/19/2002 9:27:40 PM PDT by Balata
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
I scrolled over to the right more and see you are indeed flying the U.S. flag.

LOL sorry did not see it.BTW I like all of your other flags I did not think you were flying your state/country flag.

90 posted on 05/19/2002 9:40:57 PM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
OK where exactly is tonkin gulf? Gitmo,Cuba? :-)
91 posted on 05/19/2002 9:42:30 PM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: snippy_about_it
We need the BUMPS GOTTA HAVE THEM BUMPS!!!


92 posted on 05/19/2002 9:53:01 PM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
"OK where exactly is tonkin gulf?"

Off the coast of North Viet Nam.
93 posted on 05/19/2002 10:01:31 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

94 posted on 05/19/2002 10:17:56 PM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!;68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
I hope you don't mind Tonk. This is a story that should be told and not forgotten.

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Modern history furnishes other examples of incidents deliberately set up to achieve a political result. The Pentagon Papers disclose that for six months before the Tonkin Gulf incident in August, 1964, the US had been mounting clandestine military attacks against North Vietnam, including kidnapping North Vietnam citizens for intelligence information, commando raids to blow up rail and highway bridges, and bombardment of North Vietnamese coastal installations by PT boats. (Pentagon Papers, pg. 238). This was done while planning to obtain a Congressional resolution that the Administration regarded as an equivalent to a declaration of war. (Pentagon Papers, pg. 234.)

On August 5, 1964, President Johnson called congressional leaders to the White House and told them that North Vietnamese naval vessels had flagrantly and without provocation attacked two US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. President Johnson had the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution drawn up, and it flew through both the House of Representatives and the Senate with virtually no debate. On August 7, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution had been passed, continuation and escalation of military reprisals against the North were given congressional blessing. "In the heat of the Tonkin clash, the Administration had accomplished . . . preparing the American public for escalation" (Pentagon Papers, pg. 269).

"The Tonkin Gulf reprisal constituted an important firebreak and the Tonkin Gulf resolution set US public support for virtually any action" (study quoted in Pentagon Papers, pg. 269).

Several years later the Senate Foreign Relations Committee conducted an inquiry into the events of August, 1964. Senator Fulbright would later write that the Pentagon had misrepresented the actual event, and that the US had provoked the attack.

"Only when we began those later hearings on the Tonkin Gulf did it really begin to dawn on me that we had been deceived. In the beginning--before Vietnam, that is--it never occurred to me that presidents and their secretaries of state and defense would deceive a Senate committee.

"I thought you could trust them to tell you the truth, even if they did not tell you everything. But I was naive, and the misrepresentation of the Tonkin Golf affair was very effective in deceiving the Foreign Relations Committee and the country, and me, because we didn't believe it possible that we could be so completely misled." (J. William Fulbright, The Price of Empire, pg. 107.)

95 posted on 05/19/2002 10:24:14 PM PDT by Balata
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
...9380...Looks like progress.
96 posted on 05/19/2002 10:28:25 PM PDT by Balata
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To: Balata
Thanks for posting this.
Some people still think this was the start of the Viet Nam War.
Actually the 1st US causalties were on July 8, 1959.
97 posted on 05/19/2002 10:29:43 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
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To: Balata
Wow, thanks for the education.
98 posted on 05/19/2002 10:35:55 PM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub
No it wasn't the start, but it does represent LBJ's big lie and his efforts to politicize the war.
99 posted on 05/19/2002 10:48:09 PM PDT by Balata
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To: Balata
Thank you for your comments. And thanks for the Gulf of Tonkin Incident report.
One more bump this A.M.
100 posted on 05/19/2002 10:48:16 PM PDT by AmerRepb
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