Posted on 08/20/2005 1:27:32 AM PDT by Been There. Have you?
You must have forgotten the Revolutionary War. We kicked your butts because we have PURPOSE, all you want to do is stop for a "spot of tea"
Believe his birth name was 'Archibald Leech', so not all sure I could fault him for adopting the screen name `Cary Grant'.
You forgot the ending salutation, PH:
Sincerely,
Your Mum
If you were an intelligence officer, you would be bound to secrecy about discussing your service and not be so stupid as to discuss it on a public website.
Obviously, you are a liar.
Ivan
Now THAT is both funny and clever! LOL
Yes, that really was Cary Grant's name and he was born and bred in England.
(but thanks for droppin' by...)
Awesome photo!
Knock Knock!
If you don't know who the enemy is by now darling, then you have more problems than just being angry that we support our country, our president and yours, and our troops!
HI SARGE!!!!! Are you still here?
Hugs!!!!
Not at all. Reasonable people can look at the same facts and come to different conclusions. It's not disagreement that makes anyone particularly 'cockamamie, asinine, stupid,' or anything else, for that matter.
If you can't figure out who the enemy is, why were you fighting and for what?
I am willing to bet dollars to donuts that you were never in uniform.
I'm willing to bet that you are a big talking moonbat from DU who wouldn't know which end of a gun to use, let alone which way to point it without screaming like a coward.
And if you DID serve, you were too stupid for your own good and likely were the butt of many jokes.
Have no idea what your talking about.... so here's The Green Fields of France;
Well how do you do young Jimmy Clyde,
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
And rest for awhile beneath the warm summer sun,
I've been walking all day and now I'm nearly done
I see by your gravestone you were only thirteen
When you joined the glorious fallen in 1916;
Well I hope you died quick and I hope you died clean,
Or, young Jimmy Clyde, was it slow and obscene?
Refrain:
Did they beat the drum slowly,
Did they play the fife lowly?
Did they sound the Death March
As they lowered you down?
Did the band play
"The Last Post And Chorus?"
Did the pipes play
"The Flowers Of The Forest?"
Did you leave 'ere a wife or a sweetheart behind?
In some faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
And although you died back in 1916,
In that faithful heart are you forever thirteen?
Or are you a stranger without even a name,
Enclosed forever behind a glass pane,
In an old photograph, torn, and battered and stained,
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame?
Refrain:
Ah the sun now it shines on these green fields of France,
The warm summer breeze makes the red poppies dance,
And look how the sun shines from under the clouds;
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there're no guns firing now.
But here in this graveyard is still No Man's Land,
The countless white crosses in mute witness stand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
To a whole generation that was butchered and damned.
Refrain:
Ah, young Jimmy Clyde I can't help wonder why,
Did all those who lay here really know why they died?
And did they believe when they answered the call,
Did they really believe that this war would end war?
For the sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain,
The killing and dying were all done in vain,
For, young Jimmy Clyde, it all happened again,
And again and again and again and again.
Refrain:
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