The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Linebacker II - DEC 19th, 2002

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/linebacker-2.htm ^

[MistyCA]

Thank you for posting that, Valin.

[Valin]

Hooray for me! :-)

[MistyCA]

LOL...clapping! :)

[SAMWolf]

Top Gun turret.

[Light Speed]

A Crop circle?.....he he!

[Light Speed]

Hessians

[The Real Deal]

Stop by in Stockton and pick me up on the way.

[The Real Deal]

The B-52 is one of the most awesome planes ever built. You don't realize how really big they are until one flies over you at a low level.(2000 ft. or so) If you ever experience that, you will never forget it.

[MistyCA]

Thanks, Sam!

[MistyCA]

LMAO! That's funny. I have a friend in England who told me some stuff about the crop circles....that they are a hoax, etc.

[MistyCA]

OMG...I hope that isn't you!

[MistyCA]

I had to leave for a while to go play my new Mario Nintendo game! Now I am back! :) Everyone is probably already going to bed. :)

[quietolong]

A song for us all

Jefferson and Liberty-Thomas Jefferson's 1800 presidential campaign song-A theme Song For Us here?

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for that link. And they say politics is mean- spirited theses days.

[Darksheare]

I usually use a Zebra M-402 mechanical pencil to draw, loaded with HB lead. Charcoals are also a little outside my meager skills at the moment, I get them everywhere but where I want them. Pencil I can get to where I want it to be. My Grandmother on my Father's side, as well as my Grandfather, did watercolors and charcoals. My Grandfather also did oil colors and pastels.
I only inherited enough skill to work with pencil, but I try to work with the other stuff.

The NEA controls the local art scene, so I am pretty much screwed in that respect. Everyone that looks at the art around here is from the pseudo-intellectual crowd that has bought the NEA dogma hook line and sinker. So, any type of drawing that has form, content, and beauty is called 'non-art' by the NEA.
I'm in agreement with you on the NEA. Wish they'd get lost.
Or artists could start up a rival group.

[Darksheare]

Randy Cunningham, his RIO and their plane 'Showtime 100'.

[Spook86]

Very nice summary...what historians fail to note is that most of our losses occurred during the first three days of Linebacker II; the sight of B-52s over Hanoi frightened the NV, and they (literally) fired their entire SA-2 inventory during the first 72 hours of the operation. After that, the Buffs and TACAIR roamed the skies unchallenged, and inflicted even more damage on North Vietnam. And by New Year's Day, Hanoi was ready to talk "peace."

[SAMWolf]

Nixon ordered what Johnson didn't have the guts to order and it brought the Communists to the peace table.

[MistyCA]

Pencil has the same effect of being able to "smudge" for shadow and dimension, doesn't it? Well, soft lead pencils, anyhow. I admire your ability. You should see me over here trying to dry my little misty figures with my finger on the mouse pad! :)

[MistyCA]

Oh, duh! dry my little figures?? I don't think so! That was supposed to say "draw my little figures!" LOL.