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Baez was in Hanoi doing a Jane Fonda and sucking up to the Commies when Linebacker II started. It’s unfortunate that we didn’t get her.

She did have to break off one performance and run for the shelter when the pre-strike ‘Varks came in low over her hotel.

Oh come on now. Limbaugh, Savage, Beck and all the rest are just entertainers. They're in it to make a buck. You don't REALLY believe them, do you?

No mission too difficult

No sacrifice too great

Duty First



Wear it.

"Sedition?" Yes, perhaps. But more than rebellion against the state it is maybe that they have no understanding what our country stands for and what has made it great.

Please, it is not that I'm excusing them - not all all. It's just that so much has been lost over the years about who we are and what we are and what we stand for that it just breaks the heart.

I read your web page. I had a very good friend who emigrated from Cuba at age 12, learned English from scratch, made something of himself and loves our country, as you do. It is so sad that so many "Americans" don't.

With all due respect, it is not a "right" to serve but a duty. And duty is not something that the current generation(s) understand.


Regards

I read somewhere, once upon a time, that Nimitz...Halsey...
one of the very senior admirals stated that if Kennedy had been under his command, he (Kennedy) would have been court martialed for that incident.

A crisis that he created by placing the missles in Turkey and resolved by bending over, grabbing his ankles, and giving Khrushcheev everything he (Khrushchev) wanted by removing the missles from Turkey and and agreeing not to ever interfere with Castro again?

Parent: "Now you say it."

Child: "Thees real fine my four-oh-nine."

No thank you.

I'm afraid that nowadays FR is just no longer worth my money.

Perhaps when civility and actual debate & discussion return or are enforced............

When I saw Simon and Garfinkle the tickets were $2.50. The Lovin' Spoonful opened for them.

We refused to see the Beatles because the tickets were $8.80 and NO group was worth that much.

Like So?

TM 43-0001-27
CARTRIDGE, 20MM, TARGET PRACTICE, M55A2
Type Classification: STD - AMCTC 7741.

Use: Guns, 20mm, M39, M61 and M68. The cartridge is
a training round intended as a substitute for a service
round to be used in target practice.

Description: TARGET PRACTICE Cartridge. The one piece
projectile cavity is hollow. The nose (ogive) made of
aluminum or steel is swaged to the projectile body. The
projectile is painted blue with markings in black. It
consists of a solid projectile without a fuze.

Function: The projectile is inert, therefore no specific function
takes place upon impact except penetration of the target.

Tabulated Data:
DODAC........................................ 1305-A897
UNO serial number ...................... 0339
UNO proper shipping name ; Cartridges for weapons, inert projectiles

Weight ......................................... 3935 gr
Length.......................................... 6.615 in. (168 mm)
Tracer .......................................... NA

Primer.......................................... Electric, M52A3B1
Fuze............................................. NA

Explosive:
Type ......................................... NA
Weight ...................................... NA

Incendiary:
Type ......................................... NA
Weight ...................................... NA
Propellant:
Type ......................................... WC 870 or WC 872
Weight ...................................... MBR (585 or 605 gr)

Performance: Chamber pressure........................ 60,500 psi
Velocity ........................................ 3380 fps, 78 ft from muzzle

Shipping and Storage Data:
Quantity-distance class/
SCG.......................................... 1.4C
Storage code................................ Class V
DOT shipping class ...................... C
DOT designation .......................... SMALL ARMS
AMMUNITION
Drawing number........................... 7258817

References:
SB 700-20
TM 9-1005-286-10
TM 9-1300-206 14-11

They have no soul(s).

Please stop pinging me to all your pet threads.

Now the rainman gave me two cures,

Then he said, "Jump right in."

The one was Texas medicine,

The other was just railroad gin.

And like a fool I mixed them

And it strangled up my mind,

And now people just get uglier

And I have no sense of time.

Too much damage to surrounding buildings.

No, One word: Napalm

Dear Senator Kerry:

This is a Silver Star:

GENERAL ORDERS )
:
Number 66 )

HEADQUARTERS THIRD INFANTRY DIVISION

A.P.O. #3 25 February 1945

Award of Silver Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I

* * * * * *

I - AWARD THE SILVER STAR. Under the provisions of Army Regulations 600-45, as amended, a Silver Star is awarded each of the following named individuals:

* * * * * *

AUDIE L. MURPHY, 01 692 509, First Lieutenant (then Staff Sergeant), Infantry, Company "B", 15th Infantry Regiment. For gallantry in action. On the morning of 2 October 1944, near CLEURIE QUARRY, France, First Lieutenant MURPHY inched his way over rugged, uneven terrain, toward an enemy machine gun which had surprised a group of officers on reconnaissance. Getting to within fifteen yards of the German gun, First Lieutenant MURPHY stood up and, disregarding a burst of enemy fire delivered at such close range and which miraculously missed him, flung two hand grenandes into the machine gun position, killing four Germans, wounding three more and destroying the position. Residence: Farmersville, Texas.

* * * * * *

By command of Major General O'DANIEL:

GENERAL ORDERS )
:
Number 83 )

HEADQUARTERS THIRD INFANTRY DIVISION

A.P.O. #3 3 March 1945

Award of 1st Oak Leaf Cluster to the Silver Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II

* * * * * *

II - AWARD OF 1ST OAK LEAF CLUSTER TO THE SILVER STAR. Under the provisions of Army Regulations 600-45, as amended, a 1st Oak Leaf Cluster to the Silver Star previously awarded, is awarded each of the following named individuals:

* * * * * *

AUDIE L. MURPHY, 01 692 509, First Lieutenant (then Staff Sergeant), Infantry, Company "B", 15th Infantry Regiment. For gallantry in action. On the afternoon of 5 October 1944 near LE THOLY, France, First Lieutenant MURPHY, carrying an SCR 536 radio, crawled fifty yards under severe enemy machine gun and rifle fire, to a point 200 yards from strongly entrenched enemy who had prevented further advance. Despite machine gun and rifle bullets that hit as close as a foot to him, First Lieutenant MURPHY directed artillery fire upon enemy positions for an hour, killing fifteen Germans and inflicting approximately thirty-five additional casualties. His courage, audacity and accuracy enabled his company to advance and attain its objective. Residence: Greenville, Texas.

* * * * * *

By command of Major General O'DANIEL:

Very true. Many in politics with a "D" between their name and their state.

Now that's a bit over the top

I did not see your #70 before I posted my previous reply.

Undercover officers must, of course, remain undercover.