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07-03-2017, 07:30 PM | #21 |
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Re: Freedom ain't free!
I sure agree, the best thing we can do for our present armed forces is not involve them in haywire misadventures.
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07-04-2017, 07:36 AM | #22 |
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Don't throw rocks at our President to celebrate our freedom. Instead stand up and salute our flag and Veterans. Semper Fi!
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07-04-2017, 09:31 AM | #23 |
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It is not free, and there are memorials all over with their names on them, as has been said "All gave some, some gave all" remember If we never forget, they will always be with us.
USMC Vietnam '68-69 and to all those chopper guys who saved my butt, too many times to count. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqYOAqxlL_Y Last edited by holdover; 07-04-2017 at 01:58 PM. |
07-04-2017, 10:12 AM | #24 | |
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You are right - and I respect all those allies that I had the privilege of working with over the years. My father in law served something like '14 years before the colors' as the Brits put it. He was Irish but served in the Gordon Highlanders - and he managed to survive from their first action in 1914 to the end of WWI. Emigrated to the US, became a citizen, married finally at 40 and then had 8 children, my wife being the youngest and only girl. All 7 of my brothers in law and I served - some of us during peacetime and some of us earning our pay the hard way. So in our way, the family itself was an allied endeavor. But then one of my ancestors died on the green at Lexington on 19 April 1775 - so we have seen the whole gamut of enemy to being as close as possible. And any Aussie I ever worked with was great. Enjoy this day of freedom. And in my case also my wedding anniversary. Dale |
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07-04-2017, 10:23 AM | #25 |
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Re: Freedom ain't free!- The man in the doorway ...
On this Fourth of July ...
Special thanks to "The Man in the Doorway" ... click below to read about "The Man in the Doorway": From the Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association website: http://www.vhpa.org/stories/doorway.pdf I arrived "In country" Jan 26th, 1968. It was Jan 30th, "Oh Dark Thirty". The VC liked to start attacks in the confusion in middle of the 0200 changing of the guard. The Tet Offensive was in full force and the Viet Cong were inside our perimeter wire and we were out of ammo. That was when I first met "The Man in the doorway" when he kicked the boxes of 7.62 out the doorway. We never had a chance to thank these folks or the Cobra and Huey gunships which spent the rest of the night and the next night overhead. THe M-134 (6000 rounds a minute) is amazing to say the least! I remember the deafening sound and the red light from the tracer rounds which lit up the ground and overwhelmed the parachute flares. M-134s from 20 or 30 feet away sound like a 10,000 Cubic inch chainsaw at full throttle! I remember shoveling thousands of 7.62 casings and the green clips from M-60 ammo belts into 55 gallon drums the next day. They were 6 inches deep in some places. These kind of scenes happened somewhere in Vietnam every day and night during this time!! Last edited by Benson; 08-10-2017 at 04:41 PM. |
07-04-2017, 10:35 AM | #26 | |
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He said his kilt was quite warm but very heavy when soaked from rain and mud. He was a tall gentleman and at one time quite a statue of a fellow, I'm sure.
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07-04-2017, 10:42 AM | #27 | |
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07-04-2017, 02:29 PM | #28 |
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One more story and I'll quit, seeing as how I didn't serve because of my back (Severe Scoliosis) In 1916, Pres. Wilson said "Our boys will never fight on foreign soil" to win the election. He won and They did! In April 1917 we declared and my great uncle Hermann enlisted. They made him a Machine gunner and put him at the front. A little back ground! My Great Grand father, Hermann Dietzold came to the USA and Hermann Jr was the oldest child. The average life of a machine gunner was 3 weeks. My uncle lasted till Nov 10th, 1918. Then a mortar shell came over and killed him and about twenty others. If only he could have stayed alive another 15 hours! His father, my Great Grandfather, lived to see his native land go to war against his adopted homeland twice in his life time.
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07-04-2017, 02:50 PM | #29 |
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Salute to all.
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07-04-2017, 05:14 PM | #30 | |
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07-04-2017, 09:17 PM | #31 |
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Yep, 47 years ago today. That was 4 weeks after she pinned my bars on - that gig only lasted 33 years 2 months and 9 days, but who was counting! I'm just glad this loss of independence is still going - she should have had a revolution a long time ago putting up with me.
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07-05-2017, 11:28 AM | #32 |
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Shortly after the American colonist began their civil war against their English 'Mother Country", while the price of their struggle for independence was still fresh in their mind, A quote began to appear in print which was true then (the recent War of 1812 had just finished), and is just as true today:
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" . This had been often attributed to Thomas Jefferson (who know something about the struggle to keep liberty and freedom), but was more likely first coined by John Philpot Curran's statement in 1817. In any case, this one line piece of prose represents a true and factual reality that must never be forgotten. |
07-21-2017, 04:46 PM | #33 |
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Air Mobile .... Sir!!
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07-22-2017, 01:35 PM | #34 |
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[QUOTE=Synchro909;1494278] When US forces entered Iraq, there was no sign of Sadam's Air Force, which was significant. Australian forces had taken it out before hand (without the loss of a single life or aircraft.). President Bush acknowledged that.
I have an interesting follow up to this. I was in Iraq from 2003-2004 in an Army National Guard transportation unit. We traveled all over the countries of Iraq and Kuwait. In our travels we often came across abandoned Iraqi fighter jets parked in tree groves, miles from any airstrips. In western Iraq, where it's more desert-type terrain, they found many, many fighters actually buried deep in the sand. The Iraqis still had an Air Force, but they had learned early on to hide it and never get caught in the air! I found a couple pictures, but couldn't find the ones of the planes buried in the sand. I'll have to keep looking. |
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