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Gung Ho! As a former grunt ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Rod Stanton | February 19, 2005 9:05 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Gung Ho! As a former grunt I ask you show the JFK version of the flag raising so all can be aware of why Jareheads hate him!
Ex Jarehaed
1. Posted by Rod Stanton | February 19, 2005 9:05 AM |
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2. Posted by Rob Hackney | February 19, 2005 9:44 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Makes me proud.
I was so glad to be part of the payback for what they did to us at Pearl Harbor.
My grandson tells me they don't even teach that they started the war over there though. Which means we'll have to do the whole damn thing over again one day I suspect.
2. Posted by Rob Hackney | February 19, 2005 9:44 AM |
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3. Posted by ridgerunner | February 19, 2005 10:20 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
No one can detract from the bravery and sacrifice of our veterans of WW2. That being said they had an advantage that has not been possessed by any soldier since. An undivided committed political leadership. The key was "Unconditional Surrender" and a declaration of war declared by the congress. It would be inconseivable to a marine on Iwo Jima that his country might abandon him there. President Truman looked at the prospect of invading a nation of suiciders and nuked them into the dust. It was almost 50 years before anyone questioned the wisdom of this act. Even today these revisionist are viewed by the majority of the american people as ...well....moonbats.
3. Posted by ridgerunner | February 19, 2005 10:20 AM |
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4. Posted by Ron Wright | February 19, 2005 11:16 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
FREEDOM - Thanks to the Greatest Generation for Perserving It.
Read this essay and more:
Link Here
4. Posted by Ron Wright | February 19, 2005 11:16 AM |
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5. Posted by no right turns | February 19, 2005 11:20 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
wow, a vile warmongering neocon celebrates imperialism. no much has changed in the last fifty years. the rightwing still stinks of the napalm dropped on innocent japanese.
5. Posted by no right turns | February 19, 2005 11:20 AM |
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6. Posted by Rob Hackney | February 19, 2005 11:23 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
No Japanese were "innocent" back then you idiot. They were all mindless thralls willing to die for their emperor.
We SAVED MILLIONS OF THEIR LIVES by finding a way to end the war without invading the mainland.
I came home alive becuase of this too, so spare me your BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL THEATRICS!
6. Posted by Rob Hackney | February 19, 2005 11:23 AM |
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Posted on February 19, 2005 11:23
7. Posted by McGehee | February 19, 2005 11:41 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Napalm in WW2? Somebody got his history education from John Kerry.
7. Posted by McGehee | February 19, 2005 11:41 AM |
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Posted on February 19, 2005 11:41
8. Posted by julie | February 19, 2005 12:20 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Jay: I click on your picture links and I get white pages. Is it something that I said?
8. Posted by julie | February 19, 2005 12:20 PM |
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9. Posted by Eneils Bailey | February 19, 2005 12:34 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
McGehee, did a quick internet search. Napalm was produced in spring of 1945 by Dupont and Standard Oil. As far as I am concerned, they used it in WWII, killed some Japs, and hastened the end to WWII, good deal.
9. Posted by Eneils Bailey | February 19, 2005 12:34 PM |
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10. Posted by ridgerunner | February 19, 2005 12:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
How do moonbats define imperialism within the context of WW2? Just out of thin air.."imperialism!"...."neocon!"......bark!bark!bark!
10. Posted by ridgerunner | February 19, 2005 12:41 PM |
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11. Posted by Henry | February 19, 2005 12:54 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I remember when I visited Saipan (on my senior training cruise). It was amazing, they even had some tanks that were still sitting in the lagoon (american tanks). Point of note, The battles for Saipan and Tinian (two twin islands not 2 hundred yards from each other in the North Marianas islands) was famous, too. I visited suicide cliff, and it was pretty humbling.
What was really awesome, though, was that when we were there, we were lucky enough to be visiting during the 60th anniversary for the Battle for Saipan and Tinian!
The keynote speaker was the pilot of the Enola Gay!!!!! Hearing him speak...man it was awesome.
(For those who don't know, the Enola Gay was the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima-it took off from Tinian!)
11. Posted by Henry | February 19, 2005 12:54 PM |
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12. Posted by Peter | February 19, 2005 1:39 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
My Dad didn't make Iwo, one thing that he was both thankful for and somewhat ashamed of. He was still recovering from his wounds from Tarawa.
After his recovery his unit was training and planning for the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. I doubt that there was a day that he didn't thank God that we got the bomb and used it.
12. Posted by Peter | February 19, 2005 1:39 PM |
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13. Posted by Travis | February 19, 2005 1:48 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Rob,
right on, spank those dirty japs. remember the famous GI song.
13. Posted by Travis | February 19, 2005 1:48 PM |
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Posted on February 19, 2005 13:48
14. Posted by Jim | February 19, 2005 1:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It amazes me that we lost over 7,000 men in that one battle. Can you imagine if we had today's politicians back then? They'd go berserk on the floors of the Senate and the Congress.
14. Posted by Jim | February 19, 2005 1:49 PM |
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15. Posted by Jay Tea | February 19, 2005 1:49 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Let's see. "no right turns..."
1) We were fighting "Imperial Japan." They had the Empire, the Emperor, and all the fixin's. We had a democratically-elected Democrat as our head of state.
2) "Innocent Japanese." I presume, no, that you've never heard of things as the Rape of Nanking, the execution of the Doolittle Raiders, the Bataan Death March, or the countless other atrocities committed by the IJA and IJN. Educate yourself a smidgen -- you're embarassing yourself.
3) "vile warmongering neocon." Why, thank you. Such high praise makes me blush. Better stop, though -- people will talk.
4) Go be a pathetic little fuckwit somewhere else. We're trying to be respectful.
J.
15. Posted by Jay Tea | February 19, 2005 1:49 PM |
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16. Posted by Travis | February 19, 2005 1:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
jim, librels are pussy, what do you expect???
16. Posted by Travis | February 19, 2005 1:50 PM |
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17. Posted by Travis | February 19, 2005 1:52 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
jaytea,
yup, too bad we didnt nuke tokyo insted of nuking some tiny cities.
17. Posted by Travis | February 19, 2005 1:52 PM |
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Posted on February 19, 2005 13:52
18. Posted by Travis | February 19, 2005 1:56 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
folks, no right turn is a librel idiot. be warned
18. Posted by Travis | February 19, 2005 1:56 PM |
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19. Posted by Mark | February 19, 2005 1:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
One of my great-uncles was a diver in the Navy during the Pacific campaigns. The only time I ever heard him speak of it was during the last part of the Clinton administration when he was trying to drum up support to invade Iraq. George talked a bit that night, about what it was like at Iwo and some of the other islands.
And he never spoke of it again.
19. Posted by Mark | February 19, 2005 1:59 PM |
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Posted on February 19, 2005 13:59
20. Posted by Travis | February 19, 2005 2:25 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
mark, i have nothing but highest respects for ww2 vets, they are heros who saved the modern world.
20. Posted by Travis | February 19, 2005 2:25 PM |
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21. Posted by Rod Stanton | February 19, 2005 3:28 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Napalm was used by the Navy to support Marines in WW2! I know from first hand accounts of 3 of my relatives who fought the Japs. Sometimes the media does not tell the truth.
ExJarehaed
21. Posted by Rod Stanton | February 19, 2005 3:28 PM |
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22. Posted by jo macDougal | February 19, 2005 5:20 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
After the MSM has been DIShonoring them for 50 years it is about time to thank them.
22. Posted by jo macDougal | February 19, 2005 5:20 PM |
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Posted on February 19, 2005 17:20
23. Posted by McGehee | February 19, 2005 5:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Napalm was produced in spring of 1945 by Dupont and Standard Oil.
I stand corrected. But I still think "no right mind" was confusing WW2 and Vietnam.
23. Posted by McGehee | February 19, 2005 5:50 PM |
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Posted on February 19, 2005 17:50
24. Posted by Mick | February 19, 2005 7:13 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Can you imagine being the commanding officer for this operation ? This was the proverbial "meat grinder". 7000 dead over a period of 35 days with almost 20,000 wounded. Would the press today have the fortitude to stick it out. How long before the term quagmire was used and withdrawal and surrender considered? Have we fallen so far from what was achieved 3 generations ago ? And remember this was but one battle not an entire war. Are we such pussies today ?
24. Posted by Mick | February 19, 2005 7:13 PM |
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25. Posted by al | February 8, 2006 10:39 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ron Hackney... you idiot!!! How can you comfortably say that there were no innocent Japanese back then? Maybe we shouldv'e killed those who living in the Mainland U.S during the war as well. Better yet, we should've dropped a nuke on where they were at. The U.S. military is as guilty as the Japanese military in terms of war crimes. Remember, war begins with ignorance.
25. Posted by al | February 8, 2006 10:39 PM |
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Posted on February 8, 2006 22:39