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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: south Texas
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Marine1 THANK YOU for all the pic's. For someone like me those pictures are something special. I am a peace time vet. but have alot of friends that are not. They range from Korea to the gulf era's. I can't imaging the things you went through and can't say thanks enough. If folks like you didn't do what you did I wouldn't even be able to do something as simple as writing this. ALOT of people take even the simple things like this for granted. Thanks again. |
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| Runnin' With The Big Dogs ![]() | Quote:
You are quite welcome. I thank you for this posting. There are very "few who care" about these photos, today, and would rather forget they ever existed. They live "free" today because of what these folks did for them, with their lives and blood. Glad to see you, and many others here... are not one of them. | |
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M1, I hear you. Kinda like in the movie, "Heartbreak Ridge", lock 'em up out of sight, with a sign, "Break glass in case of war". Do the defending and dying, then be quiet or go away. I've said it many times, I wouldn't wish my experience on anybody, but I also wouldn't give it up for a million bucks. I still can't put that feeling into plain english, but I think you, and fellow veterans understand. Good picture show. I came across my slides from that time in my life, but someone got into them, and they're a mess. I'll try to get 'em squared away, and on CD's, and I'll share 'em withyou. Got some good pics of the flightdeck, on Ranger and Coral Sea.
__________________ Adapt, improvise, overcome.-Gysgt Highway, Heartbreak Ridge |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 2,501
| I am currently reading . . .
THE COLDEST WINTER: America and the Korean War by David Halberstam. It really brings forth the situation of America entering into combat with conflicts over goals, methods, end results, etc. stretching from the commanders in the field to McArthur's Tokyo headquarters to the State Department to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Truman White House. |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Oklahoma
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All of the pictures you post are a step back in time.A time that should never be forgotten and I truely want to thank you again for posting them sir....!!!
__________________ "Most of the troubles in the world is caused by people wanting to be important". T.S.Eliot |
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