Posted on 06/23/2012 10:55:48 AM PDT by yorkie
More than 1,000 critics of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio are expected to gather Saturday night for a rally to call for the closure of the sheriff's complex of canvas jail tents.
Organizers say conditions in Arpaio's "Tent City" complex are inhumane.
The sheriff has said he doesn't see any problems with housing inmates in tents and often points out that some members of the U.S. military live in tents.
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I lived in a tent for 8 months with 5 other GIs in Korea.
I didn’t suffer from it.
Sheriff Joe tells the story that whenever people come and protest, he plays really loud music until they go away. He was speaking of the time Linda Ronstandt spearheaded the protest and he just played her music really loud until everyone left. of course, It’s funnier when he tells it. Lol!
You didn’t spend 8 months in a tent wishing you ‘had not gotten caught’. You proudly slept in a tent, knowing you were serving your country. God-Bless you, sir, and thank you for your service!
Ops33, Another service member who slept in a tent! Thank you for your service to our country, SIR!
Know what your talking about.I spent a year living
in sand-bagged bunkers,tents and what we called hooches,
a plywood chicken house as I called it then
I wish there were ten thousand Sheriff Arapios in the USA
While in the Army, I slept in a tent in Alaska, and it wasn’t air conditioned either.
I slept in a tent in winter & in summer in the Army off & on for 20-yrs. Then became a Boy Scout Leader & like the youth slept in a tent in summer & winter for another 20-yrs.
I remember from my tent to the latrine tent was 240 paces one way. More than once I didn’t think I was going to make it!
” During the first Gulf War I lived in tent city in Oman for 9 months.”
Thanks for your service.
When American troops took Sugar Loaf Hill on Okinawa in 1945, there were no tents, hot meals or breaks for beer. Some of the soldiers and Marines fought for 30 straight days before being relieved - 30 days - night and day - of Banzai attacks, mortar and artillery bombardment and the enemy throwing grenades and hitting you with rifle and machinegun fire from the high ground.
Entire American platoons and companies were wiped out trying to take Sugar Loaf.
It’s one of the least known but also the one of the most brutal battles of WW II.
No criminal should complain about the tents at Sheriff Joe’s easy-living camps.
There’s still a handful of these Marines and soldiers alive from the Okinawa Sugar Loaf battle, and it would be instructive if the inmates were to learn about these men.
Anyway, I’m just re-telling a story that popped into my head.
Semper Fi, FRiend.
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