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Sweden has never been afraid to follow its own path on defence matters, and nowhere is this more apparent than with the radical S-Tank, more officially known as the Strv 103. In essence a super self-propelled gun, the S-Tank was armed with a 105 mm gun mounted rigidly in an extraordinarily low, heavily sloped hull; in order to train the gun, the entire vehicle has to be moved both in traverse and elevation. Due to the extreme importance of mobility, the S-Tank was fitted with two engines, one an auxiliary gas turbine to provide emergency power.

[SAMWolf]

Veterans for Constitution Restoration is a non-profit, non-partisan educational and grassroots activist organization. The primary area of concern to all VetsCoR members is that our national and local educational systems fall short in teaching students and all American citizens the history and underlying principles on which our Constitutional republic-based system of self-government was founded. VetsCoR members are also very concerned that the Federal government long ago over-stepped its limited authority as clearly specified in the United States Constitution, as well as the Founding Fathers' supporting letters, essays, and other public documents.

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Actively seeking volunteers to provide this valuable service to Veterans and their families.

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Iraq Homecoming Tips

~ Thanks to our Veterans still serving, at home and abroad. ~ Freepmail to Ragtime Cowgirl | 2/09/04 | FRiend in the USAF

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PDN members and fans. We hope you will consider this simple act of patriotism worth passing on or taking up as a project in your own back yard. In summary:

Who They Are: Operation: Stitches Of Love was started by the Mothers of two United States Marines stationed in Iraq.

What They Are Doing: We are gathering 12.5"x12.5" quilt squares from across the country and assembling the largest quilt ever produced. When completed we will take the quilt from state to state and gather even more squares.

Why They Are Doing This: We are building this quilt to rally support for the Coalition Forces in Iraq and to show the service members that they are not forgotten. We want the world to know Nothing will ever break the stitches that bind us together as a country.

Ideas to start a local project:

Obtain enough Red, White and Blue material (cloth) for a 12.5 x 12.5 quilt square.
If you have someone in your family that sews, make it a weekend project and invite neighbors to join you.

Consider this tribute as a project for your civic group, scouts, church or townhall group.

Locate an elementary school with an after school program in your neighborhood or locate an after school program in your neighborhood not attached to a school and ask if you could volunteer one or two afternoons and create some squares with the kids.

Invite some VFW posts to share your project in honor of their post.

Send us webmaster@patriotwatch.com for digital photos of in progress and finished project for various websites, OIFII.com and the media.

PDN is making this appeal in support of Operation: Stitches Of Love
Media Contact: Deborah Johns (916) 716-2749
Volunteers & Alternate Media: PDN (916) 448-1636

Your friends at PDN

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UPDATED THROUGH APRIL 2004



The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul

Click on Hagar for
"The FReeper Foxhole Compiled List of Daily Threads"

[tomball]

Hello Foxhole - Great Tread Thread

(The new tread head is pictured above.)

 

[PhilDragoo]

Sans fording skirts. Note the clean lines.

Above and below from this site.

Tom Clancy chasing his ex-wife in between taping anti-Bush interviews for the telly.

Do not miss the other twelve S-Tank photos at this site.

35538 Strv 103 S-Tank

Slow-loading but worthwhile:

Swedish Armor

In event of time-out or hot-link block, pull emergency lever

103StankAmmoLoadMattiasBrehag.jpg

From this neat page.

By loading on a trailer ramp maximum declination is attained.

From Swedes at the RAAC Tank Museum

But despite the extremely minimal silhouette, nothing, repeat, nothing is as low as Jean-Fraud Kerry, Komrade du Komunistas:

That Monroe Doctrine thang was bypassed by the Communist Congress' 1982 Boland Amendment making Communism in the Western Hemisphere a protected endangered species.

Jean-Fraud Kerry, not just French, not just Communist, not just anti-American--

Jean-Fraud is the real Red deal: French anti-American Communist.

[Cue Howard Dean/Al Gore stereophonic schizophrenic screamphony in F Minor with Ted Kennedy on mooing, cowbell.
Deutchegrammefon 666]