The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Mexican-American War (1846-1847)

To: snippy_about_it

"The problem is those men over there never quite seem to be the enemy."
Longstreet to Lee on the morning of day 2 of Gettysburg
From the "Killer Angels"

I've watched the movie and read the book so many times I've got blocks of dialogue memorized.

101 posted on 08/12/2004 8:25:36 PM PDT by Valin (John Kerry: Dumber than Gore, more exciting than Mondale)

To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it; Cannoneer No. 4; E.G.C.; alfa6; GailA; ladtx; Darksheare; The Mayor; ...

My older wiser brother, graduate of USMMA, engineer, reports he is doing significant design work for the American Legion Headquarters in Indianapolis.

It is an archive of motivational posters from WWII including one featuring a General Patton quote to the effect it is the highest calling to fight in defense of your country.

He recalls the late sixties loading a ship with ordnance for Vietnam over the course of six days, being especially careful with 500 lb. bombs.

Between the ship and the bar were "VW bugs full of hippies" who had every delusory account of "napalming lines of uniformed schoolchildren".

The "aid and comfort" given our enemy then and now by the lying likes of the Cambodian Shambo Jean-Fraud Commie remains an account to be settled.

The Treaty of Guadalupe de Hidalgo featured in our 1998 3d District contest. Specially elected Congressman Redmond (VRWC member who voted for all four articles in December 1998) advocated revisiting the treaty's original beneficiaries since divested of holdings guaranteed therein.

The current infiltration by Mexican special ops pushing ice cream wagons with tinkling bells casts an uneasy shadow on the sesquicentennial of the peace.

"I suppose I shall not have time or opportunity to write to you again before we have met the enemy . . . I am sensible that I am going surrounded by dangers of all kinds, but I am going in the discharge of my duties, and God . . . will protect me, and if I fall it will be by His Will. . . ."—February 12, 1847

The Khmer Rouge used these weapons against the ill-fated Kerry Kambodian Kaper of Christmas Eve 1968.

On the other bank of the MeKohn the Vietnamese answered back with kazoos and recorded hamster cries played at high decibels.

102 posted on 08/12/2004 9:10:11 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)

Thanks for the quote Valin.

103 posted on 08/12/2004 9:50:12 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)

104 posted on 08/12/2004 9:51:34 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)

The "aid and comfort" given our enemy then and now by the lying likes of the Cambodian Shambo Jean-Fraud Commie remains an account to be settled.

Indeed.

105 posted on 08/12/2004 9:54:24 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)

To: snippy_about_it

I'm afraid I've got some bad news.
AL SADR WOUNDED IN NAJAF
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1147472,00.html

Iraqi cleric Moqtada al Sadr has been wounded in fighting in Najaf, according to reports.

Earlier it was reported American forces stormed the home of the radical Shi'ite cleric.

Well maybe bad isn't quite the word I'm looking for, let's try happy..good joyous..yippee..goody goody gumdrops, might be closer to what I really mean.

And I wish they'd stop calling him a "cleric" he's NOT. What he is is a snot nosed little punk with delusions of adequacy.

106 posted on 08/12/2004 9:58:53 PM PDT by Valin (John Kerry: Dumber than Gore, more exciting than Mondale)

To: Valin; snippy_about_it; SAMWolf; colorado tanker; Darksheare; Light Speed; Iris7; bentfeather; ...

107 posted on 08/12/2004 10:19:39 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)

He looks...concerned...I would be to.

Good night all.

108 posted on 08/12/2004 10:23:26 PM PDT by Valin (John Kerry: Dumber than Gore, more exciting than Mondale)

Thanks Valin. I'm gonna have to try and catch it.

109 posted on 08/12/2004 11:01:24 PM PDT by SAMWolf (When their numbers dwindled from 50 to 8, the dwarfs began to suspect "Hungry")

I only read the book once but have seen the movie at least a dozen times. IMHO, best Civil War movie ever made.

110 posted on 08/12/2004 11:02:26 PM PDT by SAMWolf (When their numbers dwindled from 50 to 8, the dwarfs began to suspect "Hungry")

Evening Phil Dragoo.

Thanks for finding the picture of "Old Sacramento"

Looks like some more books to add to my reading list.

Patton would have despised a man like Kerry and slapped the crap out of him, but then there would have been nothing left of Kerry.

111 posted on 08/12/2004 11:06:33 PM PDT by SAMWolf (When their numbers dwindled from 50 to 8, the dwarfs began to suspect "Hungry")

That guy needs a third eye in the middle of his forehead.

Shi'ites have already expressed anger at the major US-led assault.

They have warned that the violence could spread to other parts of the country and damage the entire political process in Iraq.

Yeah, yeah! The "Arab Street" will rise in anger, yada, yada, yada.

112 posted on 08/12/2004 11:09:45 PM PDT by SAMWolf (When their numbers dwindled from 50 to 8, the dwarfs began to suspect "Hungry")

"Purple Heart? I'll show you a Purple Heart--"

WHAM BAM SLAP SOCK POW

Thud.

[Kerry out for the count with x's in his eyes.]

113 posted on 08/12/2004 11:16:18 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)

Imo, he's not "wounded" enough. ;-)

114 posted on 08/12/2004 11:17:31 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)

I'd pay money to see that.

115 posted on 08/13/2004 12:10:27 AM PDT by SAMWolf (When their numbers dwindled from 50 to 8, the dwarfs began to suspect "Hungry")

On Pay-Per-View it would replace FReepathons forever.

116 posted on 08/13/2004 12:28:59 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)

117 posted on 08/13/2004 3:04:32 AM PDT by E.G.C.

To: Matthew Paul

Morning Matt. Poland stopped the Islamic invasion once before, glad to have you along this time.

119 posted on 08/13/2004 7:57:37 AM PDT by SAMWolf (When their numbers dwindled from 50 to 8, the dwarfs began to suspect "Hungry")

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