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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tucker on May 30, 2011, 07:54:07 PM
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon May-30-11 01:35 PM
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DU Vets and Active Servicemen: Thank you for SURVIVING
Click Me!
A lot of people take the time today to thank the vets and servicemen for their bravery, and their service to their country. Think about it: the pay is shit, living conditions one (small) step up from camping, you get shot at, you have to shoot back and just when you think it's over you get sucked back in.
I'm thankful for that, but I'm MORE thankful for them surviving.
Every KIA is a cut into our country and a cut into me personally.
I don't want any of us to die - especially young people who just got out of college or high school. A KIA is a future that has been stolen. A possible husband or father, a possible wife or mother, a possible good Samaritan that might help you, a possible scientist who might find the cure for a disease, a possible cop who would have stopped a murder. That life, when gone, will never be replaced.
In the movie "Saving Private Ryan" the scene that had me crying was not the beginning, which shows the true horror of war, nor the end - but the part where the team has caught a German Soldier, and are deciding whether to hill him or not. Throughout the movie, Captain Miller has been very secretive of his past - and everyone in the group wonders what his civilian life was. During that tense moment, Miller finally shouts out what he did - a High School Teacher - to the group. It stops everyone in their tracks, and for me that was the most moving scene. Because those who fight - very few of them are professional soldiers. They're you and me, teachers, parents, doctors, mattress salesmen.
So with that, let me thank you all - not just for serving, but for surviving.
7-1/2 hours later, 6 replies. That says volumes about the character of the DUmmies and their phony support the troop campaign.
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Says a lot huh?
BTW I'll be all inclusive unlike the OP who is only saluting DU Vets, I'll salute all our Veterans whether they be Republican, Democrat or Independents. Thank You for your service.
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Remember, this is DUmmy Taverner, a raving addict. The only vets he appreciates are the few who become drug dealers.
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Remember, this is DUmmy Taverner, a raving addict. The only vets he appreciates are the few who become drug dealers.
I realize that, but DU collectively, only 6 posts thanking vets in 7-1/2 hours! They have over <cough-cough> 100,000 members.
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Dear Taverner:
**** you.
That is all.
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Crocodile tears as usual. Not for one second will I ever, ever believe that DUmmies respect our military or love this country. The fact that they go to great lengths to bash everything remotely patriotic on a daily basis is proof enough for me as to their true feelings.
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Dear Taverner:
**** you.
That is all.
:yeahthat:
And the H5, Reb.
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Taverner
I don't want any of us to die - especially young people who just got out of college or high school. A KIA is a future that has been stolen. A possible husband or father, a possible wife or mother, a possible good Samaritan that might help you, a possible scientist who might find the cure for a disease, a possible cop who would have stopped a murder. That life, when gone, will never be replaced.
But when it comes to killing the unborn, the above paragraph has to be retracted in order to not anger the god of liberalism.
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While on the subject of this douche...
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In the movie "Saving Private Ryan" ...
Really?
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Really?
Why the hell not. 11Boo is a character in Hamburger Hill.
Alternate universe and all that.
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Taverner
In the movie "Saving Private Ryan" the scene that had me crying was not the beginning, which shows the true horror of war, nor the end - but the part where the team has caught a German Soldier, and are deciding whether to hill him or not. Throughout the movie, Captain Miller has been very secretive of his past - and everyone in the group wonders what his civilian life was. During that tense moment, Miller finally shouts out what he did - a High School Teacher - to the group. It stops everyone in their tracks, and for me that was the most moving scene. Because those who fight - very few of them are professional soldiers. They're you and me, teachers, parents, doctors, mattress salesmen.
We haven't drafted anyone in decades and chances are, your idiot ass would be fragged within the first week for doing stupid shit that can get people killed. They should have shot that German bastard. He's the one that returned to the fighting and killed the CO in the end.
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Really?
Hollyweird is the only way any of them can relate to an experience as alien to their actual stunted lives as service in ground combat forces, especially in wartime.
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:yeahthat:
And the H5, Reb.
+1 from me.