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This Day we Fight!
Vanity | CS Lewis

Posted on 11/06/2012 6:37:02 AM PST by calico_thompson

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To: calico_thompson

Oh, stop, we’s just funnin’ ya. It was a good choice of quotation for this crucial, historic day.


21 posted on 11/06/2012 7:07:55 AM PST by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: calico_thompson

To polling official:
“Yes ma’am, my wife, me and most of the country.
“We ran out of chewing gum, so we’re here to kick ..... “


22 posted on 11/06/2012 7:10:13 AM PST by tumblindice (D-day)
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To: dagogo redux

more great lines!


23 posted on 11/06/2012 7:15:51 AM PST by Nevadan
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To: calico_thompson

May the heros of Benghazi be proud of how we vote today.

They gave their lives for us, now we need to give our votes for them.

Vote as if the lives of our Military Men and Women depended on it.


24 posted on 11/06/2012 7:19:34 AM PST by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: VikingMom; calico_thompson

Yes, LOTR was J.R.R. Tolkien, but the faux St. Crispin’s Day speech with allusions to the Poetic Eddas from the movie should be attributed to the screenwriter for the movie Return of the King, not Tolkien himself, as Aragorn’s speech before the Black Gate occurs only in the movie version.

From the Poetic Edda:

Axe-time, sword-time, shields are sundered,
Wind-time, wolf-time, ere the world falls;

A good speech, but then most battle-inspiration speeches, whether in real life or in fiction, written in English since the late 1500’s by folks literate enough to know Shakespeare’s St. Crispin’s Day speech have been.


25 posted on 11/06/2012 7:21:12 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: calico_thompson

“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.”
- General George Patton Jr
“If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired.”
-General George S. Patton


26 posted on 11/06/2012 7:45:02 AM PST by katiedidit1
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To: Graewoulf

I wish someone would do as ‘Heroes Of Benghazi’ poster in that Shepherd Fairy style. Use their own iconography against them.


27 posted on 11/06/2012 7:47:03 AM PST by squarebarb ( Fairy tales are basically true.)
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To: calico_thompson

I’m a bit more pessimistic about the election so I’m thinking of Theoden’s speech: “Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain in the mountains, like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?”.


28 posted on 11/06/2012 8:20:44 AM PST by SoCal SoCon (Conservatism =/= Corporatism.)
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To: agere_contra

Please note spelling: “Tolkien”.

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Oops! You are correct, of course.


29 posted on 11/06/2012 9:10:04 AM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: calico_thompson

Sorry if I offended you by my correction.

Of course, turns out I spelled Tolkien’s name wrong. :0 Poetic justice?

Anyway, thanks for posting these inspiring words.


30 posted on 11/06/2012 9:14:22 AM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: calico_thompson
Read my tagline.

Amen

31 posted on 11/06/2012 9:15:15 AM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West)
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To: The_Reader_David

...Aragorn’s speech before the Black Gate occurs only in the movie version.

&&&
Thank you. I did not realize that. It has been about 45 years, though, since I read the LOTR books.


32 posted on 11/06/2012 9:17:30 AM PST by Bigg Red (Pray for our republic.)
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To: squarebarb

” - - - I wish someone would do as ‘Heroes Of Benghazi’ poster in that Shepherd Fairy style. - - - “

Great idea! Ping me if you find that poster’s poster!


33 posted on 11/06/2012 12:23:09 PM PST by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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