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re: We got ourselves a couple of badasses here
Posted on 5/28/19 at 12:35 pm to Pandy Fackler
Posted on 5/28/19 at 12:35 pm to Pandy Fackler
You are a disgrace. Shame on you. My grandfather survived 3 sunken ships in World War 2, to look down upon anyone who served in that war is sickening. Sure hope you feel better about yourself for trying to distinguish who deserves more credit and who deserves less. What's the point in that? Just be thankful for them all, without them you'd be speaking German, or better yet (in your case) wouldn't be here at all. Good riddance, I hope chicken bans your weak minded arse
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Posted on 5/28/19 at 12:47 pm to IS_IT_GAMEDAY
couldnn't have said it better myself 
Posted on 5/28/19 at 12:56 pm to Pandy Fackler
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. I probably have more respect and appreciation for them than you do
I doubt that, I served from 82 to 85.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 1:08 pm to IS_IT_GAMEDAY
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You are a disgrace. Shame on you. My grandfather survived 3 sunken ships in World War 2, to look down upon anyone who served in that war is sickening.
I don't look down upon them.
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Sure hope you feel better about yourself for trying to distinguish who deserves more credit and who deserves less
I do. And so does the department defense and veteran affairs. Although somewhat meager, combat veterans receive enhanced benefits support veterans do not receive. As they should.
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without them you'd be speaking German, or better yet (in your case) wouldn't be here at all.
That's not true. In fact, you should start a thread on that very subject. You'll get alot of hits.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 1:09 pm to Jim Rockford
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We got ourselves a couple of badasses here
I thought you were going to post a pic of Owlie and OweO
Posted on 5/28/19 at 1:11 pm to Pandy Fackler
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And yeah, serving chow is less honorable. Alot fricking less honorable. The guy serving chow doesn't deserve the same press, gratitude, honors or social appreciation as the guy who was paralyzed from the waist down, fighting in combat.
so, these two guys are standing (you assume on their own legs), so they have never been wounded? Thus, they do not deserve more respect than I deserve?
I am confident that these two guys, if they were on TD, would be the only ones defending your right to prove to the world how wrong you are.
I wish I could say FU more......
Posted on 5/28/19 at 1:17 pm to bencoleman
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. I probably have more respect and appreciation for them than you do
I doubt that, I served from 82 to 85.
Other than some peacekeeping type stuff and the odd excursion here and there, you served during a time when the military really didn't have a whole lot to do.
It's not the same.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 1:28 pm to Screaming Viking
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so, these two guys are standing (you assume on their own legs), so they have never been wounded? Thus, they do not deserve more respect than I deserve?
I do indeed assume they're standing on their own legs because men that age aren't going to stand on prosthetics without assistive devices and i don't know if they were wounded or not. Now that we have that stupid shite out of the way, let's talk about you.
Depending on the nature of your wound and how you received it no, a support veteran may not deserve as much respect as you. Do support veterans deserve respect? Sure. As much as an actual combat veteran? No.
Which cop for instance do you have more respect for? The one that works in the evidence room or the one who responds to a "shots fired"?
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wish I could say FU more......
I only have to say frick you once.
This post was edited on 5/28/19 at 1:31 pm
Posted on 5/28/19 at 2:16 pm to Topisawtiger
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I am retired military. Not sure I could carry these guys jockstraps. Definitely our greatest generation
First, thank you sir... You said a mouthful... nor could I carry jockstraps of this generation. My Dad passed in '95, born in 1925, served in the U.S. Navy in WWII and never spoke about it. "Lettered" and competed in athletics at both L.S.U. and Tulane. He was a co-founder of one of B.R.'s well known and still thriving corporations in 1952. Humble, soft-spoken, unassuming, was a life long student of Integral Calculus, Aerodynamics, and spent two weeks of each of his last 10 years at the Smithsonian.
Lost his father at age 2, born the son of a maid/housekeeper of a plantation north of B.R. in Wilson, La. ...that bankrupted and closed doors in the Great Depression of 1929... they were dropped off, homeless and penniless, on 3rd St. with one small suitcase and walked the streets offering to clean for food until finding regular work. His mother, my grandmother, who passed in '89, never learned to drive. Until 17 he was on foot, running to school, after class jobs, etc... which helped account for a shoe-box I have filled with track & field / high-hurdle medals and two college scholarships. His peers were all of the same breed and I just have to accept they are superior men and couldn't step in the shoes of any.
We just see two old men in that photo that hardly appear "badass" but the substance they are made of would probably scar and traumatize each one of us for life if we were somehow able to be placed in their skin for a day. These "hard-life", "old-guy" stories sound cliche now but the idea that anyone here could be an "alpha" would fast become a sad joke if the foundation these Depression-Era, country-serving, self-made men built and left for us to stand on were pulled from beneath our feet.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 3:08 pm to MiDixon Yermouth
Thank you for that. Btw I grew up in the big city of Wilson. My mom still lives there. Small world.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 3:54 pm to Topisawtiger
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Thank you for that. Btw I grew up in the big city of Wilson. My mom still lives there. Small world.
That's pretty cool to run into someone from Wilson on the OT. I have my Dad's birth and death certificates and both list Wilson, La. as his birthplace. Wish I knew more about it but everyone's gone now. Since there was likely no medical facility I'd guess he was born on that plantation. I've not seen anything but a road sign while passing through. I wonder if your Mom would know what type of plantation may have been there prior to 1929 (and where it was)... and if a farm, even what type of crop it produced what be nice to know. No need to go to any trouble but if you happen to speak w/your Mom, it would be great to hear what she may have heard was in Wilson at some point... or what Wilson was known for at that time. Since we don't have PM, I'll check this thread for a while to see. If you are busy and have no time for this, I totally understand. I know it's a long shot but had to try. Thanks
This post was edited on 5/28/19 at 3:58 pm
Posted on 5/28/19 at 4:52 pm to Jim Rockford
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This post was edited on 6/14/20 at 11:31 pm
Posted on 5/28/19 at 4:55 pm to Jim Rockford
Yep. Men today aren't the same.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 5:00 pm to Pandy Fackler
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How do we know they weren't support personnel? How do we know they fired one single round?
Do you even know who Merrill's Marauders were?
Posted on 5/28/19 at 5:12 pm to Pandy Fackler
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Pandy Fackler
Posted on 5/28/19 at 5:39 pm to MiDixon Yermouth
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what type of plantation may have been there prior to 1929 (and where it was)
Hickory Hill
A modern cash crop
This post was edited on 5/28/19 at 5:41 pm
Posted on 5/28/19 at 5:41 pm to Jim Rockford
Grandfather was stationed in Okinawa. Was 17 when he joined. Would be 95 if he was still alive.
Posted on 5/28/19 at 5:45 pm to Pandy Fackler
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About 16 million served during the war and less than 1 million saw actual combat.
I may be wrong, but didn't we lost more soldiers in WWII compared to every other war not the civil war?
Posted on 5/28/19 at 5:54 pm to Pandy Fackler
Just came here to call you an ignorant idiot. 
Posted on 5/28/19 at 6:02 pm to Jim Rockford
This is what REAL Heroes look like. Not an damn athlete or movie star. Get a good look because they don’t come around every day. God bless them!!!
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