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We should take our hats off to the brave Black Watch
Scotland on Sunday ^
| April 6, 2003
| Alan Cochrane
Posted on 04/05/2003 5:22:14 PM PST by MadIvan
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Ruthless in battle, gracious in victory - ladies and gentlemen, the Black Watch.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:22:14 PM PST
by
MadIvan
To: Dutchgirl; Freedom'sWorthIt; Carolina; patricia; annyokie; Citizen of the Savage Nation; cgk; ...
Bump!
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:22:27 PM PST
by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan; *war_list; W.O.T.; 11th_VA; Libertarianize the GOP; Free the USA; knak; sakka; ...
To: MadIvan
Salute!!!!!
To: MadIvan
Kuddos to the brave men of Black Watch.....
To: MadIvan
Thanks for the posts MadIvan.... I hope they send a few of these folks north to Baghdad to join in the fun, and glory, of taking it.
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:29:00 PM PST
by
Daus
To: MadIvan
As a Dundonian who still lives in Angus, I find it particularly heartening that it has been the Black Watch that has shown the way.
And boy have they ever. Ofttimes its braver to lower your weapon than to raise it. The Black Watch obviously knows when to do both.
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:31:24 PM PST
by
Arkinsaw
To: MadIvan
I would love to see a picture of the spectacle described in the article, if you could lay your hands on one.
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:35:57 PM PST
by
wimpycat
('Nemo me impune lacessit')
To: MadIvan; general_re; Incorrigible; aculeus; dighton
THIS IS A BIG OL' CELTIC BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW...I am currently madly deeply and dippy about Lt. Col. Tim Collins (Who is over the Belfast man over the Irish Guards).
No one underestimates the soldiers of ANY division. But when soldierdom is 'brought back home' to people, it instills a HUGE sense of pride.
And BLACK WATCH??? Those guys are brilliant.
(BTW, US folks may think of all UK soldiers as 'British' toops...but you must remember while that IS the case, Scottish men see themselves as Scottish first, and British second. Almost like Suth'n men making the claim for the south over the Yankee north (even to this day)..I've met many Americans who see England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales as being the 'British Isles'..but any American who has come to these islands and voiced that opinion, I'm sure, has been educated differently) *S*
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:37:13 PM PST
by
Happygal
(I'm sure there is a biblical passage to support my view)
To: MadIvan
Silly man.
My father in law was color-blind too. He didn't let it stop him. He obtained by guile (or bribery) a copy of the color vision screening test and memorized it before taking the Army physical.
For his trouble, he got to spend five years in the Pacific in such beauty spots as Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Saipan, and the Occupation of Japan. Shot at frequently, blown up once (on Iwo - he wasn't scratched but his jeep was destroyed.)
BTW . . . Suas leis a'Fhreicadan Dubh!
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:37:40 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . there is nothing new under the sun.)
To: wimpycat
Lieutenant Colonel Mike Riddell-Webster, commanding officer of the Black Watch - In Basra. Regards, Ivan
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:38:06 PM PST
by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan
Ruthless Bump
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:38:53 PM PST
by
pbear8
( sed libera nos a malo)
To: MadIvan
Damn, I love those guys.
V
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:39:14 PM PST
by
Beck_isright
(If Susan Sarandon pooped in the woods, would ELF boycott her?)
To: MadIvan
I have great respect for the Black Watch and Highland soldiers, though this old Viet Nam boy has long held the United States Marines in highest regard. We have the finest people in uniform in the world fighting in Iraq and supporting the effort. Wish I could be there. We have cared enough to send our very, very best.
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:40:39 PM PST
by
Iris7
(Sufficient for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.)
To: MadIvan
D-Notice Kindness Unreported by the Media
In Az Zubaya, with freed Iraqi children, heroes from Black Watch.
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:40:48 PM PST
by
Diogenesis
(If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.)
To: MadIvan
Awesome! ...what no pipers? ;)
To: MadIvan
Cool! Thanks!
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:46:47 PM PST
by
wimpycat
('Nemo me impune lacessit')
To: Happygal
THIS IS A BIG OL' CELTIC BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Back atcha!
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:48:58 PM PST
by
aculeus
To: Happygal
THIS IS A BIG OL' CELTIC BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Back atcha!
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:48:59 PM PST
by
aculeus
To: MadIvan
To the Forty twa's
Hand salute!
Semper Fi.
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posted on
04/05/2003 5:53:11 PM PST
by
tet68
(Jeremiah 51:24 ..."..Before your eyes I will repay Babylon for all the wrong they have done in Zion")
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