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05-26-2016, 08:57 AM
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Memorial Day
As Memorial Day approaches, I kinda like this quotation..
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the man who died. Rather,we should thank God that such men lived" George Smith Patton Dan
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05-26-2016, 11:38 AM
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Patton was a great combat commander and, sadly, wouldn't be allowed to serve today. Can you imagine an area commander saying of the Taliban that "we're going to rip out their living guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks"?
He's be cashiered for being "insensitive." It's a sad pass we've come to.
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05-26-2016, 04:08 PM
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Memorial Day
I hope all of you good folks have a save and meaningful Memorial Day. All the best...
Gil
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05-27-2016, 01:47 PM
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Dan,
Excellent post. I liked Patton and my Uncle Marty, master sergeant, was in the 3rd Army. His claim to fame was having his butt chewed PERSONALLY in March 1945 by George Patton himself! As Marty told me, it was midmorning and he was walking along a road with a file of fellow infantrymen in the other wheel track heading into Austria. There was a jeep coming up from the rear and the infantry stepped aside to let the jeep pass. As the jeep passed, Marty waved. Immediately, the jeep reversed back and stopped beside Marty. On the front right fender was the 3-star pennant of a Lt. General and standing in the rear seat position was Patton. He yelled to Uncle Marty to stand at attention and render a hand salute, which he did. Patton's jeep then proceeded on. I trust Patton and Marty are getting on ok in Heaven. The war is over, and we won. Patton's best quote was:" Wars are not won by dying for your country, it is by making some other dumb SOB die for his." Adam
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05-28-2016, 01:11 PM
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Thanks to all those who served.
God Bless, and One Love. GoodOlBoy
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
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