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Posted on 4/25/24 at 6:55 pm to mauser
quote:Is that Jaclyn Smith?
Is this photo old enough?
Posted on 4/25/24 at 6:56 pm to Kafka
Posted on 4/25/24 at 7:01 pm to Darth_Vader
Posted on 4/25/24 at 7:03 pm to Smoke Ring
Sergeant Neppel's official Medal of Honor citation reads as follows:
He was leader of a machinegun squad defending an approach to the village of Birgel, Germany, on 14 December 1944, when an enemy tank, supported by 20 infantrymen, counterattacked. He held his fire until the Germans were within 100 yards and then raked the foot soldiers beside the tank killing several of them. The enemy armor continued to press forward and, at the pointblank range of 30 yards, fired a high-velocity shell into the American emplacement, wounding the entire squad. Sgt. Neppel, blown 10 yards from his gun, had 1 leg severed below the knee and suffered other wounds. Despite his injuries and the danger from the onrushing tank and infantry, he dragged himself back to his position on his elbows, remounted his gun and killed the remaining enemy riflemen. Stripped of its infantry protection, the tank was forced to withdraw. By his superb courage and indomitable fighting spirit, Sgt. Neppel inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy and broke a determined counterattack.
He was leader of a machinegun squad defending an approach to the village of Birgel, Germany, on 14 December 1944, when an enemy tank, supported by 20 infantrymen, counterattacked. He held his fire until the Germans were within 100 yards and then raked the foot soldiers beside the tank killing several of them. The enemy armor continued to press forward and, at the pointblank range of 30 yards, fired a high-velocity shell into the American emplacement, wounding the entire squad. Sgt. Neppel, blown 10 yards from his gun, had 1 leg severed below the knee and suffered other wounds. Despite his injuries and the danger from the onrushing tank and infantry, he dragged himself back to his position on his elbows, remounted his gun and killed the remaining enemy riflemen. Stripped of its infantry protection, the tank was forced to withdraw. By his superb courage and indomitable fighting spirit, Sgt. Neppel inflicted heavy casualties on the enemy and broke a determined counterattack.
Posted on 4/25/24 at 7:05 pm to Kafka
STOP CHEESE!
Posted on 4/25/24 at 7:32 pm to Kafka
Sam Clemens age 15
Posted on 4/26/24 at 8:55 am to Kafka
Posted on 4/26/24 at 8:55 am to mauser
Posted on 4/26/24 at 8:59 am to mauser
Posted on 4/26/24 at 10:44 am to mauser
Posted on 4/26/24 at 11:05 am to nuwaydawg
May of 1990 I graduated from LSU. They moved the ceremony from the PMAC to Tiger Stadium. Our commencement speaker was some old guy and former governor of California. Each graduate was given four tickets for family/friends. I used three of them and I still have the other one in a box somewhere.
Strangely enough, my fiancé (now wife of 34 years) had graduated from LSU in May of 1989. Her commencement speaker was the governor of Arkansas.
Strangely enough, my fiancé (now wife of 34 years) had graduated from LSU in May of 1989. Her commencement speaker was the governor of Arkansas.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 11:06 am to nuwaydawg
I hope I'm wrong, but that pic looks like the guy in front of the cannon has his back to the barrel and the crowd gathered is waiting for the cannon to go off and cut him in half.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 11:13 am to gumbo2176
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The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some forty or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seen.[1]
Posted on 4/26/24 at 11:28 am to nes2010
Well, at least it is quick-------------but what a brutal way to go out.
The wait has to be the scariest part I would think because once it goes "BOOM" nothing else will register.
The wait has to be the scariest part I would think because once it goes "BOOM" nothing else will register.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 11:31 am to Basura Blanco
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May of 1990 I graduated from LSU. They moved the ceremony from the PMAC to Tiger Stadium. Our commencement speaker was some old guy and former governor of California.
That had to have been one of his last big public speeches. It's kind of wild to think about.
Posted on 4/26/24 at 6:57 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Posted on 4/26/24 at 6:58 pm to Kafka
Posted on 4/26/24 at 7:07 pm to Kafka
Posted on 4/26/24 at 7:09 pm to Y.A. Tittle
quote:I saw DAN QUAYLE give a speech in the PMAC
Our commencement speaker was some old guy and former governor of California.
Let's see one of you assholes top that
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