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USO Canteen FReeper Style FReeper FRiday....VetVetDoug's Cousin....October 18,2002
FRiends of the USO Canteen FReeper Style and Snow Bunny
Posted on 10/18/2002 12:36:24 AM PDT by Snow Bunny
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To: JohnHuang2
Hi John! Good to see you.
To: Snow Bunny
Dean Dodd was one who paid the ultimate price for us. His family has our prayers. These small biographies you do help make sure none are ever forgotten. Dean will be on my mind all day as I go out from my home and enjoy my life. He puts a face and a story onto what would otherwise seem like a vague or unnoticed concept of what it really means to be free. Thanks for your work, and thanks to Vet Dog's family.
To: Snow Bunny
Morning All. If any of you north Texans (Plano area) haven't looked outside yet, you're missing one of the most beautiful sunrises I seen a a long time.
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posted on
10/18/2002 5:28:33 AM PDT
by
ladtx
To: ladtx
I seen a a long time. So pretty made me stutter.
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posted on
10/18/2002 5:29:34 AM PDT
by
ladtx
To: JohnHuang2
"I'm having computer problems -- but I should have 'em all taken care of by Monday." Git a new 'puter, bro...MUD
To: Snow Bunny; vetvetdoug
2nd Lt. Claude Taylor Dean
Thank you for your service - Rest in Peace
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posted on
10/18/2002 5:50:36 AM PDT
by
SAMWolf
To: aomagrat
Thanks aomagrat. The only USS Wasps I was aware of were the carriers.
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posted on
10/18/2002 5:52:58 AM PDT
by
SAMWolf
To: Snow Bunny; Victoria Delsoul; coteblanche; SpookBrat; MistyCA; SassyMom; LindaSOG; souris; ...
A group of U.S. soldiers rest as a cloud of dust of destroyed ammunition found in the village of Tit rises, southeastern Afghanistan (news - web sites), Thursday, Oct. 17, 2002. Soldiers conducted search and seizure missions which covered several villages of Paktika province. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
U.S. soldiers hold their position as local residents watch them in the village of Tit, southeastern Afghanistan (news - web sites), Thursday, Oct. 17, 2002. Soldiers conducted search and seizure missions at objective Hood, which consisted of several villages of Paktika province. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
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posted on
10/18/2002 5:56:47 AM PDT
by
SAMWolf
To: SAMWolf
Ya'll have a great day- see ya later!
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posted on
10/18/2002 6:01:49 AM PDT
by
herewego
Does anyone know of websites, organizations etc for/about US servicemen who served in Taiwan? Thanks.
To: Snow Bunny
God Bless 2nd Lt. Claude Taylor Dean
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posted on
10/18/2002 6:35:37 AM PDT
by
deadhead
To: tomkow6; Johnny Gage
Two blondes were in a parking lot trying to unlock the door of their Mercedes with a coat hanger. They tried and tried to get the door open, but they just couldn't! The blonde with the coat hanger stopped for a moment to catch her breath. The other blonde said anxiously, "Hurry up! It's starting to rain and the top is down."
Best I could do so early in the morning!
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posted on
10/18/2002 6:42:14 AM PDT
by
JustAmy
To: Snow Bunny; SassyMom; Aeronaut; SpookBrat; AntiJen; souris; 4TheFlag; 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub; ...
2nd Lt. Claude Taylor Dean
March 10,1945
Job well done, Rest in Peace.
VetVetDoug: Thank you for sharing the story of your cousin.
It's open season on Tali-banny Turkeys - Let's Roll
To: KneelBeforeZod
Try this:
<===Mash This
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posted on
10/18/2002 6:52:04 AM PDT
by
SAMWolf
To: Snow Bunny; vetvetdoug
An icon of the U.S. Air Force; a remarkably creative tactician; and one of the Cold War's fiercest warriors; General Curtis LeMay led a colorful if extremely controversial career. From early on he argued that, "if you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much... You'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too." His men called him "Iron Ass" because he demanded so much of them. But because of his own physical courage and his military rigor most of them respected him immensely.
In the last months of the Second World War, LeMay took command of the main air effort against Japan, turning around its tactics. Instead of the established U.S. policy of daylight, precision bombing, he ripped out the armaments on 325 B-29s and loaded each plane with firebomb clusters. On March 10, 1945 he ordered the bombers out at 5 - 9,000 feet over Tokyo.
The devastation wrought that first night was catastrophic: the raid incinerated more than 16 square miles of the city, killing 100,000 people. According to the official Air Force history of the Second World War, "No other air attack of the war, either in Japan or Europe, was so destructive of life and property." For months LeMay's bombers went out night after night, relentlessly keeping up their fire-bombing campaign, so that by the end of the war, flames had totally or partially consumed 63 Japanese cities, killing half a million people and leaving eight million homeless.
Asked later about the morality of the campaign, LeMay replied: "Killing Japanese didn't bother me very much at that time... I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal.... Every soldier thinks something of the moral aspects of what he is doing. But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier."
LeMay was convinced that the United States had been forced into the war in 1941 because the country was weak and unprepared. He recognized that the development of new long-range bombers meant that for the first time the continental United States would be vulnerable. And he believed the way to prevent an attack was to build a incredibly powerful, well-armed and well-trained Air Force.
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posted on
10/18/2002 7:10:52 AM PDT
by
SAMWolf
To: Snow Bunny; 4TheFlag; Victoria Delsoul; coteblanche; SpookBrat; MistyCA; SassyMom; souris; ...
Click the link to view the 873rd Squadron PatchSQUADRON INSIGNIA:
Designed originally for the 676th in Great Bend in December, 1943, it was immediately popular, but in the rapid change of events that followed it was lost in the shuffle and did not turn up again until the arrival of the 873rd. It survived a number of signia contests and in July, of 1944 was adopted officially as the Squadron Insignia of the 873rd Bombardment Squadron.
Created to symbolize the immense size, yet graceful ease of the SUPERFORT, the elephant was chosen to typify size. His attitude, cocksure and easy going,symbolized the attitude of the men of the Squadron. The position of the hand dropping the bomb denoted ease and accuracy in ability to destroy the target, while the bomb became the symbol of destruction ... the cloud symbolized the altitude, while the little elephant's position of recline depicted the ease and grace of the immense 29 in flight. The red circle carried out the color scheme of the national colors. while the seven white stars on top and the three on the bottom designate the last two numerals of the Squadron number.
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posted on
10/18/2002 7:22:33 AM PDT
by
SAMWolf
To: SAMWolf
"But all war is immoral and if you let that bother you, you're not a good soldier". LeMay was convinced that the United States had been forced into the war in 1941 because the country was weak and unprepared...meant that for the first time the continental United States...vulnerable...the way to prevent an attack...incredibly powerful, well-armed and well-trained Air Force.
I wonder if President Reagan studied General LeMay?
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posted on
10/18/2002 7:36:01 AM PDT
by
HiJinx
To: JustAmy; SassyMom; kneezles
What do you get when you take the circumference of your jack-o-lantern and divide it by its diameter?
Pumpkin Pi
What did the policeman say when a black widow spider ran down his back?
"You're under a vest!"
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posted on
10/18/2002 7:42:41 AM PDT
by
tomkow6
To: Snow Bunny; coteblanche; JohnHuang2
"Black's DAWG!!" (To be sung to Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog")
Hey, Slick Willie, yer a TREAS'NOUS FOOL!!
Gon' make Bill sweat...Slick's Mudboy's Tool!!
Medyuh's VILE, way they ignore Left's stink...
Gon' make Slick burn, gon' make Left sting.
Hey, Slick Willie, didja think you'd git away?!!
Boy, yer such a trip...still, Prison's yer Fate!!
Oh yeah, oh yeah ah, ah, ah~ah.
Oh yeah, oh yeah ah, ah, ah~ah.
Right's gotta roll...we shan't stand still,
Once Justice starts...next, we'll git Bill!!
"If ya do the crimes", Ashcroft said,
"We'll catch you, 'cuz Truth ain't dead!!"
Ah-ah. Ah-ah. Ah-ah.
Ah-ah. Ah-ah. Ah-ah. Ahhh__.
Heh Terry, "PUNK" McAuliffe...Slick's petty "lady".
Lib'rals, watch US do it now!!
Slick Willie, yer a Traitor, you Evil Rapist,
Fear yer Fate...Right's Rollin' Now!!
Folks, won't take too long 'fore Slick finds out
What FReepers mean by "Take Slick Out!!"
Takes my money, scratched my car,
Started tellin' MUD's FRiends, Slim's just gone too far!!
Yes, I know, Right must be Bold...
RATS' red-necked Lib'rals ain't got no soul.
Oh yeah, oh yeah hah, ah, hah~ah.
Oh yeah, oh yeah hah, ah, hah~ah.
Oh yeah, oh yeah hah, ah, hah~ah.
Oh yeah, oh yeah hah, ah, yeah.
All I ask for...all I pray,
Dubyuh's Rollin' Justice gon' come Slick's way!!
Need no Lib'rals...no Feds to hold my hand,
Git Left outta my Life, make me a happy man!!
Ah-ah. Ah-ah. Ah-ah.
Ah-ah. Ah-ah. Ah-ah. Ahhh__.
Ohhh ye-ah.
Justice makes US do it now.
Yeah-yeah. Yeah-yeah. Yeah-yeah.
FReepers shake 'em do it now.
Babe! Babe!
Wooh, keep doin' it babe.
[ Busted. ] Hey.
[ Busted. ] Hey.
[ Busted. ] Hey.
[ Busted. ] Hey.
[ Busted. ] Hey~yeah.
[ Busted. ] Hey~yeah.
[ Busted. ] Hey~yeah. Oooh~yeah.
Oooh~ahh. [( Well done. )]
Justice makes US do it now.
FReedom lets US do it now.
Work in progress...Mudboy Slim
To: Snow Bunny
USO Canteen FReeper Style FReeper FRiday....VetVetDoug's Cousin...Bump !!
Let's Roll !!
The RATS Are In Disarray...Eradicate The Rodents !!
Fire Democrats, Hire Republicans !!
GWB Is The Man !!
Snuff Saddam, NOW !!
Death To all Tyrant's !!
The Second Amendment...
America's Original Homeland Security !!
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
Molon Labe !!
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posted on
10/18/2002 8:06:26 AM PDT
by
blackie
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