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Memorial Day - 5/27/2013 4:42:57 AM   
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Thank you WB and MB, and to all that have served.



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RE: Memorial Day - 5/27/2013 4:45:15 AM   
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RE: Memorial Day - 5/27/2013 12:23:24 PM   
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But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.


--Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address


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RE: Memorial Day - 5/27/2013 12:42:34 PM   
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I found this quite moving:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/grid/local/military-service-editors-picks/


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RE: Memorial Day - 5/27/2013 12:47:19 PM   
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Thank you to the women and men who have and who are currently serving.

Happy Memorial Day

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RE: Memorial Day - 5/27/2013 12:50:49 PM   
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If they were here, what would they say?… ‘Forget all the little circumstances of the day. Be ashamed of the jealousies that divide you. We command you in the name of those who, like ourselves, have died to bring the councils of men together, and we remind you what America said she was born for. She was born… to show mankind the way to liberty. She was born to make this great gift a common gift. She was born to show men the way of experience by which they might realize this gift and maintain it.

--Woodrow Wilson at the American Cemetery
in Suresnes, France; Memorial Day 1919


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RE: Memorial Day - 5/27/2013 1:04:39 PM   
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I served, and appreciate the good thoughts.

I went into the military because men on both sides of my family served.

I went army to piss off my dad who wanted me to go to the Air Force Academy.

I went Airborne Rangers cause the recruiter said that the airborne wings and ranger patch were chick magnets.



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RE: Memorial Day - 5/27/2013 4:35:51 PM   
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Thank you Jeff, and thank you dc for the links and quotes.

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RE: Memorial Day - 5/27/2013 5:26:02 PM   
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My father served in the Pacific (USN), as did one of his brothers. My uncle I never met is inside a destroyer in a place called Ironbottom Sound. My mom's brother's all went, one to Europe, one to Africa, and one who managed to miss the fighting in two theatres (but made up for it in Korea). I only served in the USAR, and tried to get my wings for the same reason-chick magnets

To all on eternal duty, I thank you.

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RE: Memorial Day - 5/27/2013 5:32:14 PM   
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This is one of the best I have seen so far.




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RE: Memorial Day - 5/27/2013 6:32:08 PM   
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I was traveling this weekend and had the great honor of sitting next to a young man in the Army on one of my flights. He had not been home in over a year and was so excited to see his family. I enjoyed sitting next to him and listening to his stories of his family.

I can't do much to show my gratitude but I do try ...

Thank you to all ....

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RE: Memorial Day - 5/27/2013 7:08:50 PM   
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This struck me as an arresting new take on a familiar scene:



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RE: Memorial Day - 5/28/2013 2:13:10 AM   
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Both my brothers and I are vets. One is doing work in Afghanistan (independent contractor) and the other one is disabled and working for the Post Office. I served in Korea over 20 years ago before having a few medical problems and asked to be released with an honorable discharge.

We do appreciate the thanks...

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RE: Memorial Day - 5/28/2013 7:26:09 PM   
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Thought I would give a brief description about my time in the United States Marine Corps. This is probably just going to be some random freestyling here.

I enlisted in the Marine Corps at 19 because I was without direction and focus. I certainly got plenty of that... how to direct effective small arms fire at people who for whatsoever reason it was decided needed to stop respirating... and how to focus properly through the rear site aperture while discharging fire from an M-16. What I got out of the Marine Corps: Direction, focus, a piss poor attitude, cycnism, one hell of a physical appearance and condition, and a set of dress blues that was my chick magnet.

Spent Christmas Eve in dress blues one year at a karoke bar in North Los Angeles on a particular evening when the local girls who star in porn films are out, and the second half of the night is in broken memories, but if it was anything close to the first half... it was a really fun time.

How I joined... my buddy Andy and I were fed up with college at the time, and we were all high back then. We go down to the recruiter's office and told the SSgt on duty there... "Hey, we want to be Marines."

His response in typical USMC fashion with hands on the hips as some sort of modified "parade rest" authority position: "Out-fuckin-standing fellas. This is a start of a new chapter in your lives. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah... Can you go down and pass a urinalysis at MEPS today?"

Me: "Gulp. Uhhh... maybe...?!"

SSgt: "Well do you fellas want to wait a month and try to pass it then?"

Andy: "Uhh... no sir, you don't understand, if I can't pass it today, there's not a fuckin chance in hell I will pass it in a month."

---We waited three days, drank the county reservoir down below drought levels, and took these magic pills from GNC... then we went and passed the damn thing. Two months later, our asses were getting destroyed at a little known resort called Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego by several of a particular type of Marine who volunteered for the billet of sharing with recruits the truth on how buttfucked, shit-for-brained, complete dumbassed, shrink-wrapped dogshit, fucktarded assclownish, inbred laboratory experiments gone awry, etc etc etc etc... all recruits were. Such Marines are known as Drill Instructors. My buddy Andy actually may have had a relapse or something... maybe it was the resin-coated film of THC in his fuckin stupid skull... but he decided to inform our drill instructors after our platoon had just been informed yet again of how buttfuckin pathetic we all were and that we were all just a bunch of perfectly good blow jobs gone to waste in our mothers' vaginas rather than mouths because we would have made better protein additives to smoothies than we would ever make as Marines. Well... Andy stands up and says, "If Drill Instructor Sergeant B---- is so pissed off about the fact that his recruits all suck and that we're all worthless, maybe he should request orders off his Drill Instructor B-Billet and go recruit some better people to come here and become Marines." The Senior Drill Instructor stepped out of the duty hut upon hearing. Oh fuck, we were dead. They took us to the sand pits and thrashed us for hours. We island hopped the entire fucking depot.

It was a fun three months with hearing the word "Kill!" screamed by thousands of recruits everyday and basically hearing a bunch of "Aye aye Sir!" shouted at full volume hundreds upon hundreds of times each day. It's funny... they have this third party chow hall crew where they import these people to work. You get there and the first week you can't believe some of these ladies are actually touching your food. By the fourth week, you sneek off to the head at night to bust one out thinking of them loading your chow plate up with... whatever.

Then one day, we climb up this big fuckin hill (the reaper) on Edson Range at Camp Pendleton and the whole game is over... they hand us our Eagle, Globe, and Anchor (USMC emblem) and say, "Congratulations Marine," which btw... is the first time you're ever called "Marine." Somehow it means a lot more I guess if they call you 10,000 other expletives in the preceding 11 weeks while placing their boot into your ass with no lube a half dozen times per day. Someone could write an entire fuckin book on Marine Corps Recruit Training. It would best be defined as hell, but with a purpose. They're goal is to make you full of hate, piss & vinegar, motivation enough to end someone else's life... so in a nutshell: "Hell", and so... in an odd way, you become like this fully indoctrinated ambassador of hell. But the goal is more than representing 'hell' -- they want you to go out and distribute as much hell as possible, and when you think you've done everything... nope... still more hell to share.

There's so many fuckin stories... the phantom handjob jacker at Camp Horno. The young Marine who found that his "Ham Slices" from an MRE - if warmed, opened, and left in the packet - could be dug into the side of a foxhole and effectively utilized as more than a meal, then his buddy who wanted to 'try it out' after he was done. "Dude let me try it, come on man, move over!! You've been at it for a half hour!!" Of course, the at least dozen or so fights we got into at random places on the west coast of which we will never fully understand the causes.

And... the Marine Corps birthday ball in Vegas... 2005. Fuck... a... duck...

If it wasn't for the big green weenie up your ass all the time... I might have made it a career. There were great times, but most of the time, it was like trying to off-road a seatless huffy down the continental divide.

To all my comrades from the other services, OO-rah. To all my fellow Marines... Semper FUCKING Fidelis. To all my fellow grunts... 03 for life. Err.

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