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Army Engineers Cross Swords in Iraq
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Posted on 03/23/2005 2:04:20 PM PST by dead
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Anyone who makes it through USMC boot camp is tough by anyones standards, regardless of what happens after wards. And if you think I'm just blowing smoke, ask Dan Rather :)
BTW - the guy on the left looks like the father of the kid who won a medal (Navy Cross?) and happened to be in Iraq as a civilian and was able to pin it on him. The Dad had been a Marine in Vietnam.
Reason I remember is that he appears to be my age, and before I read the article I was thinking how lucky he was to be over there. It was posted here on FR.
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posted on
03/23/2005 2:32:06 PM PST
by
ProudVet77
(It's boogitty boogitty boogitty season!)
To: cripplecreek
AP file
To: cripplecreek
I didn't know that Captain Kangaroo was in the military. Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo) has passed away, therefore that's not him.
My bet is that it's Wilford Brimley.
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posted on
03/23/2005 2:54:39 PM PST
by
Phsstpok
("When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring.")
To: dead
Great picture. Unfortuntely when I hear "Army Corps of Engineers" I think of the people who arrest you when you fill in a puddle in your back yard.
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posted on
03/23/2005 2:58:43 PM PST
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: Rodney King
LOL! Good that they're in Iraq then. They don't have puddles.
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posted on
03/23/2005 3:04:01 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
Ummm.....
How do they raise and lower that flag at the very top of the swords, where the two are joined???
To: dead
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posted on
03/23/2005 3:21:52 PM PST
by
Gaelic
To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it; Darksheare; Valin; alfa6; Iris7; 300winmag
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posted on
03/23/2005 3:23:57 PM PST
by
Professional Engineer
(My baby girl has the strongest little finger known to man.)
To: Professional Engineer
*chuckle*
That is an excellent pic angle.
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posted on
03/23/2005 3:27:44 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Gravity - Fear = SPLAT!)
To: Gaelic
But it's such a good story.
To: Gaelic
That story is false. Please click on the Snopes site for clarification
Yes I know. I included the link to Snopes in my post.
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posted on
03/23/2005 3:29:26 PM PST
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: cripplecreek
"I didn't know that Captain Kangaroo was in the military."
I believe Bob Keshan (Captain Kangaroo) was a Marine. I think he graduated from boot camp at the end of WW II.
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posted on
03/23/2005 3:57:09 PM PST
by
dozer7
(Love many, trust few and always paddle your own canoe)
To: cripplecreek
I didn't know that Captain Kangaroo was in the military. You see any rank or branch insignia on those BDUs? I don't. They are likely Department of the Army and Corps of Engineers civilian employees, not soldiers. If not that, they must be reserve or guard. Some of those dudes are pretty old. I was one once and we had this master sergeant who was about 60 I think. (In fact he was the "first shirt", although the Air Force and Air Guard don't use that terminology, but he was the senior enlisted man in the squadron.)
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posted on
03/23/2005 3:58:52 PM PST
by
El Gato
(Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
To: Professional Engineer
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posted on
03/23/2005 4:21:18 PM PST
by
SAMWolf
(Liberal Rule #8 - Defend lifestyle by comparing man with animals.)
To: Professional Engineer
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posted on
03/23/2005 4:22:50 PM PST
by
snippy_about_it
(Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
To: cripplecreek
Captain Kangaroo was a Marine!
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posted on
03/23/2005 4:26:08 PM PST
by
Liberal Classic
(No better friend, no worse enemy. Semper Fi.)
To: ol' hoghead
Ira Hayes was a Pima Indian from Az. Call him Drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey-drinkin' Indian
Or the Marine who went to war...
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posted on
03/23/2005 4:28:54 PM PST
by
Constitution Day
("Please do not emanate into the penumbra.")
To: dead
To: dead
To: dead
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posted on
03/23/2005 4:35:14 PM PST
by
JOE43270
(JOE43270 America voted and said we are One Nation Under God with Liberty and Justice for All.)
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