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  • Flopping Aces Writer Major Chris Galloway Dead at 36 (Freeper M1Tanker)

    08/13/2009 9:07:15 AM PDT · by Starman417 · 110 replies · 7,577+ views
    Flopping Aces ^ | 08-13-09 | Scott Malensek
    Life and the internet are strange strange things. I've been trading emails and posts etc with Chris for years now. It wasn't at all uncommon for his duties, deployments, and family to make those virtual conversations sporadic from time to time. Well, Chris won't be returning emails anymore. He passed away suddenly on June 30, 2009. Last Fall he and his wife Shannon had a baby girl, Lilly. Chris was so happy. We teased him about how awful it is to step on Barbie Doll high heels in the middle of the night, and he bragged about how his...
  • Major Christopher Galloway Dead at [FReeper M1Tanker, RIP]

    08/16/2009 10:33:19 AM PDT · by OhioSA · 70 replies · 1,841+ views
    Flopping Aces ^ | 8/16/09 | OhioSA
    "On June 30th Major Chris Galloway took his own life. He had come back from Afghanistan in April, and things just weren’t the same we’re told." "Why’d we lose him? Who the hell knows. There is no rational reason for doing such a thing, so using reason to figure it out is both impossible and ineffectual. It accomplishes nothing. In the end, he’s still gone. For the sake of his wife, his kids, and for ourselves it’s better to remember him for who he was. Given that he was so much to so many, there’s a lot to think about....
  • a Freeper's response to Victor Davis Hanson's essay Our Battered American

    02/25/2009 7:47:15 AM PST · by Tolik · 46 replies · 1,914+ views
    The original Hanson's essay: Victor Davis Hanson: Our Battered American [gets angrier - Must Read Rant] M1Tanker's response: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2190180/posts?page=61#61reposted below: M1Tanker: I know I have been away. I am a Battered American serving in the US Army in Afghanistan. I have been ridiculed, lied about, and betrayed by the left for the entire US offensive portion of the GWOT (we were on the defensive/ignore it until 9-11-01). That is 7 years of being slandered and having the enemy propaganda reported by the left as “fact”. We are now facing a resurgent Taliban that thinks since they “won” the US elections...