Posted on 05/09/2016 9:51:57 PM PDT by MagillaX
Just wondering what everyone's thoughts on Senator Ayotte for VP. She appears to come across well and could fit in well with Trump.
I have been pushing Rubio but maybe she is a viable option as well. She doesn't appear to me as someone who would suck all the oxygen out of the room and where it would be all about her which was a concern I had about picking a woman.
I don’t mean to diminish him. It could be just that he’s what I expect from Army officers. I grew up surrounded by them, vets of WWII and Korea.
You are a very fortunate man, Pelham. My dad was not that.
I recently saw a movie on HBO that just blew my mind.
Unbroken is about a World War II vet. I was floored when I found out this movie was directed by Angelina Jolie.
She did an incredible job. She should have won an Academy Award for it.
That was one of the best movies I have ever seen.
World War II vets are men cut from a stronger cloth. Those guys are the best that there ever was.
Unbroken- I used to hear Louis Zamperini interviewed on the radio out here in LA.
I haven’t seen the movie but I’ve heard that Jolie omitted the last act of Louie’s life, the part that began after he returned to the states and which he considered the most important to him.
Louie was plagued by what we would call PTSD. He drank heavily and his marriage was falling apart. His neighbors took his wife along to see some tent preacher in LA. She was impressed and wanted Louie to go see him too, but he wanted absolutely nothing to do with it. But she got him to go, it was either that or she was leaving him.
Anyway the tent preacher was a very young Billy Graham and Louie Zamperini’s life changed completely. The constant nightmares ended. He stopped drinking overnight. He joined a Christian mission to Japan and preached forgiveness to the very prison guards that had tortured him. A story as remarkable as the one that preceded it.
She didn’t ignore that part.
It wasn’t in the main body of the movie acted out by the actors, but it described in the epilogue of the movie as it was explained what he did with his life after Japan.
And I tell you, as good as the movie itself was, it was the epilogue that was the best part.
That was the part that just ripped the tears out of me.
It went on to describe his severe PTSD, and how fulfilling his vow to give his life to Jesus is what saved his life during this time.
It also showed him achieving his dream of running in the Olympics in Japan and how he went back there to meet and forgive his captors,but the only one who refused to meet him was the one that he broke, The Bird.
To see this old man with old hands and legs running in Japan waving was magnificent.
And the final scene was his beautiful face when he was so very old at the end in his uniform with his ribbons.
I love those old faces like his.
When I look at them, I know I am looking into the face of someone so much wiser and stronger than me.
This is one of the reason that I just hate modern plastic surgery that older people get this days to smooth out their faces. They don’t seem to realize that they are hiding what distinguishes them.
Yeah you’re right but he’s way more Conservative than anyone running but he’ll never join the Republican party. He’s been with the State Constitution Party since it’s founding and was their chairman, Bill Cole is from my home county, he’s another good guy not quite as Conservative as Phil, but he’s a good friend and fellow.
She is almost as bad as Corkhole from Tennessee for VP.
LOL!
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