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ownership10 wrote:

you are not unpatriotic if you don't agree with the war, just if you don't support the brave men and women of the coalition fighting it.

I never understood where people got the idea that people who Disagree with the War are Also Against the Troops. YES I am against all these Wars, But I Still Support the Troops. But always keep in mind, It is IMPOSSIBLE to have Peace, Or Even World Peace, The Reason being is that that is just not the way Humans were Created.

Last edited by DaReJa (2006-08-17 03:30:01)

RicardoBlanco wrote:

[KS]RECON wrote:

This was send to me from a dear friend, so I decided to share it with all of you...

The daughter of a Soldier

Last week I was in Atlanta , Georgia attending a conference. While I was in the airport, returning home, I heard several people behind me beginning to clap and cheer. I immediately turned around and witnessed one of the greatest acts of patriotism I have ever seen.

Moving Thur the terminal was a group of soldiers in their camos, as they began heading to their gate everyone (well almost everyone) was abruptly to their feet with their hands waving and cheering. When I saw the soldiers, probably 30-40 of them, being applauded and cheered for it hit me.  I'm not alone.  I'm not the only red blooded American who still loves this country and supports our troops and their families.

Of course I immediately stopped and began clapping for these young unsung heroes who are putting their lives on the line everyday for us so we can go to school, work and home without fear or reprisal. Just when I though! ht I could not be more proud of my country or of our service men and women a young girl, not more than 6 or 7 years old, ran up to one of the male soldiers. He knelled down and said "hi," the little girl then she asked him if he would give something to her daddy for her. The young soldier, he didn't look any older than maybe 22 himself, said he would try and what did she want to give to her daddy. Then suddenly the little girl grabbed the neck of this soldier, gave him the biggest hug she could muster and then kissed him on the cheek.

The mother of the little girl, who said her daughters name was Courtney, told the young soldier that her husband was a Marine and had been in Iraq for 11 months now. As the mom was explaining how much her daughter, Courtney, missed her father, the young soldier began to tear up. When this temporarily single mom was done explaining her situation, all of the soldiers huddled together for a brief second. Then one of the other servicemen pulled out a military looking walkie-talkie. They started playing with the device and talking back and forth on it.

After about 10-15 seconds of this, the young soldier walked back over to Courtney, bent down and said this to her, "I spoke to your daddy and he told me to give this to you." He then hugged this little girl that he had just met and gave her a kiss on the cheek. He finished by saying "Your daddy told me to tell you that he loves you more than anything and he is coming home very soon."

The mom at this point was crying almost uncontrollably and as the young soldier stood to his feet he saluted Courtney and her mom. I was standing no more than 6 feet away from this entire event unfolded. As the soldiers began to leave, heading towards their gate, people resumed their applause. As I stood there applauding and looked around, their were very few dry eyes, including my own. That young soldier in one last act of selflessness, turned around and blew a kiss to Courtney with a tear rolling down his cheek.

We need to remember everyday all of our soldiers and their families and thank God for them and their sacrifices. At the end of the day, it's good to be an American.
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I don't care what's on the TV, press or/and other nations said - I am so proud to be an American!

Thanks for the laugh, that was one of the gayest things I have ever read! Why don't you send that to Spielberg...

Had these been charity workers or people actually doing good in the world I may have thought differently. Unfortunately they're going to go over there and kill people, sorry, 'spread freedom' and end up killing lots of innocent people in the process.

Good idea ... do you have his e-mail or the only e-mail you know is your own?
Killing people? You mean the guy with RPG, or the other one with the Dragunov sniping for fun? There is something called Rules of Engagement (ROE) and yes you have the right to use force to defend yourself against attacks or threats of attack. How do you know that they are killing innocent people? Just please remember that the truth is a little different from the one you are seeing on the nightly news.
They are serving the country, what have you done for the country bro?
P.S. 3 months boot camp for you will make you appreciate and respect the country, the people, the flag ... Horahhh

Last edited by [KS]RECON (2006-08-17 06:38:08)

Great story, AMERICA FUCK YEAH!

Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In fully glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution!
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Oh, thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust":
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.





America...
America...
America, FUCK YEAH!
Coming again, to save the mother fucking day yeah,
America, FUCK YEAH!
Freedom is the only way yeah,
Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too,
America, FUCK YEAH!
So lick my butt, and suck on my balls,
America, FUCK YEAH!
What you going to do when we come for you now,
it’s the dream that we all share; it’s the hope for tomorrow

FUCK YEAH!

McDonalds, FUCK YEAH!
Wal-Mart, FUCK YEAH!
The Gap, FUCK YEAH!
Baseball, FUCK YEAH!
NFL, FUCK, YEAH!
Rock and roll, FUCK YEAH!
The Internet, FUCK YEAH!
Slavery, FUCK YEAH!

FUCK YEAH!

Starbucks, FUCK YEAH!
Disney world, FUCK YEAH!
Porno, FUCK YEAH!
Valium, FUCK YEAH!
Reeboks, FUCK YEAH!
Fake Tits, FUCK YEAH!
Sushi, FUCK YEAH!
Taco Bell, FUCK YEAH!
Rodeos, FUCK YEAH!
Bed bath and beyond (Fuck yeah, Fuck yeah)

Liberty, FUCK YEAH!
White Slips, FUCK YEAH!
The Alamo, FUCK YEAH!
Band-aids, FUCK YEAH!
Las Vegas, FUCK YEAH!
Christmas, FUCK YEAH!
Immigrants, FUCK YEAH!
Popeye, FUCK YEAH!
Demarcates, FUCK YEAH!
Republicans (republicans)
(fuck yeah, fuck yeah)
Sportsmanship
Books

[/irony]

Last edited by Sh1fty2k5 (2006-08-17 08:02:19)

SoC./Omega wrote:

Great story, almost put a tear down my face. Who cares what the press says, its when people do that when people forget everything around them and just think of our soldiers.

yep me too

Marinejuana wrote:

phnxfrhwk wrote:

Okay well then lets just go ahead and blame every single soldier for every person who has died anywhere because in some way shape or form the military is to blame. Have you even considered what the Iraqi government was doing to they're own...what we did over there was nothing compared to it. Id also like to see what if any proof you have of this. I guess you also have no idea of the thousands of tons of food water and other staples of life we were sending over there either. But then again I'm sure you wouldn't since thats what the media wants you to believe. That all we do is kill. I cant say whether the story is true about the little girl or not but I have gotten that applause walking through an airport(BWI,Bangor) and those of you who did or would you have my deepest thanks. its good to hear that you are backed up when you get home when all you hear on the news is negative things.

200,000 women and children died due to the water supply bombing in the first gulf war (this is from reuters that i read about 3 years ago). How many did Saddam kill?

We send food and help? Did you know we give more money to Israel's military yearly than we do in humanitarian aid for all the worlds nations combined? And we invest many times this sum into our own military.

Saddam is just a random bad ruler that our government jacked for Texas tea because it had an excuse. We overlook all the other tyrants because an attack wouldn't be immediately profitable in the same way. I think that powerful people in our country are far too explitative in how they make their wealth grow. Right now there is a small community of oil-men running the US by manipulating America's love for its powerful and seemingly righteous army such that they permit great atrocities.

And why on earth would the media want me to believe the war is bad? The same corporations that own the media benefit from the military-industrial economy and oil economy that the war drives. The media is hardly anti-war.

I don't "blame every single soldier" but i don't glorify them either.  Clearly our military has negetive impacts where ever it goes. If I was a soldier I would quit. I can appreciate the good intentions of those that don't but it gets very frustrating to always excuse their participation in war.

Okay Ill go with that although it wasn't a water supply bombing it was due to the lack of electricity that the US and British led forces took out. And a more precise number is 110,000 civilian casualties 47,000 of which were children under the age of five. (Daponte, Beth Osborne, A Case Study in Estimating Casualties from War and Its Aftermath: The 1991 Persian Gulf War, (1993)). Oddly enough they do not single out male or female. Most of these deaths were disease related due to the lack of refrigeration for common vaccines. Yes it is an atrocity. But I wouldn't say that the military brings out the worst in people, War brings out the worst in people.

But lets also take a look at what Saddam was doing. Aside from gassing his own and sending missiles into the Kurdish area of Iraq. He drained swamplands and marsh areas that killed between 100,000 and 500,000, draining 60 percent of the marshes between 1990-1994. (Leah C. Wells, Albion Monitor May 16, 2003) Hmm lets see whose practicing genocide now.

And yes we do send food water medical supplies, not to mention entire medical teams.  Who cares if we give more money to Israel or some other country. The way I see it Money doesn't mean Jack to the kids and family's that are displaced by war. Not to mention displaced by Saddam. I would rather see food go directly to the mouths of the hungry or medical treatment directly to the sick than wait for money to exchange hands then for them to buy the food and wait for delivery. Most of the military missions are humanitarian, The only reason why people don't like the military is because its a war time scenario.

Hopefully one day we will not have a need for a soldier.  But until human greed and corruption cease to exist war will always prevail. This is why Communism fell(works great in theory, but human nature fucks it up for everyone) . And While I agree with the fact that why we went into Iraq was a mistake in the first place. And why we are still there is a mistake, but if we leave now that country will go back to the shit hole it was. Ive been there, And when Most of a countries population thanks you for being there, you come to the realization that they wanted your help anyways, regardless of what the people back home say.

I hope that you will never appreciate what a solider does.

Last edited by phnxfrhwk (2006-08-17 08:26:55)

Good post.
I hate the fact that some ppl in these forums have to push their agenda into every post. Nothing in the original post really had anything to do with politics.

Ty for posting this.

[KS]RECON wrote:

Good idea ... do you have his e-mail or the only e-mail you know is your own?
Killing people? You mean the guy with RPG, or the other one with the Dragunov sniping for fun? There is something called Rules of Engagement (ROE) and yes you have the right to use force to defend yourself against attacks or threats of attack. How do you know that they are killing innocent people? Just please remember that the truth is a little different from the one you are seeing on the nightly news.
They are serving the country, what have you done for the country bro?
P.S. 3 months boot camp for you will make you appreciate and respect the country, the people, the flag ... Horahhh

Err yeah, funny email joke!?

Do you seriously think these snipers are doing it for fun? Can't you take a fucking hint that you and your 'freedom' aren't wanted there. As for ROE, try telling that to the young girl who was gang raped by some of your soldiers and then burnt afterwards, might be worth mentioning to 'Courtney' that her daddy isn't so nice after all.

If you don't want your 'boys' killed/maimed/implicated in atrocities don't support them or the war, maybe one day your government will listen.

P.S What I see on the nightly news is a fuck of a lot more accurate than anything a soldier (who never sees the big picture) can tell me thanks. The day I rely on my information coming from uneducated hicks is the day I join the army myself, which ain't gonna happen.

[KS]RECON wrote:

P.S. 3 months boot camp for you will make you appreciate and respect the country, the people, the flag ... Horahhh

Three months of conditioning will make you believe any shit they want you to believe.

Oohrah.

I got this from a friend this morning.

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5318 … /Mike1.jpg

On August 16, 2005, at 0700 hours eastern daylight savings time, a call that changed the life of every member of the Stokely family came to our home in Sharpsburg GA - "Mr. Stokely, this is Major Hulsey; I am here with Chaplain Dicoppo and we need to speak with you urgently but your dog will not let us to the door." I knew the moment I hung the phone up and ran at a fast gait to the door and down the steps, meeting them in the driveway that they were at my home to tell me my "boy" was dead. It was a long day that day, and it has been a long year to say the least. But, today, as I write this email, I want to share with you a special photo of then Spc. Mike Stokely (promoted to SGT posthumously). The photo most often used is of Mike Stokely before he left for Iraq, and is itself a great icon of his persona. But, this photo I now share is so very special, for it is of Mike Stokely, the Iraq War Veteran and shows the essence and spirit of who Mike Stokely was, even as a soldier in war – big generous eyes that said I’ll look after you, and that ever famous friendly smile that said I am your friend.

In this picture, Mike Stokely and his squad had just come upon another squad from another unit whose HumVee had been hit by an IED. A medic from Mike's squad - Autry - is working on the wounded soldier while Mike acts as a fixture and holds the wounded man’s IV bag. If you zoom in, you see the actual sweat beads on Mike Stokely’s nose. Notice the bird flying in the background off his right shoulder and the tank and machine gun set up off his left. In the midst of such circumstances, this American Soldier named Mike Stokely simply did what he could to make life a little better in whatever way he could, even if it was to lay down his own gun, stand prone in the open, and hold a wounded soldier’s IV bag elevated so gravity would keep vital fluids flowing into the wounded soldier. All the while, Mike Stokely, as he always did, took it in stride and smiled. In the weeks before this Mike had seen many opportunities for he and his buddies to be seriously injured or killed. They endured harsh living conditions – primitive at best. Yet, the same smiling confidence you see in the attached photo is the same smiling confidence he had all along in Iraq, even till the moment of 0220 hours on 16 Aug 2005 as Mike stood cover flank for his best friend and another soldier checking out a suspicious site on a road they were clearing for convoy traffic. That site, near a village called Mulla Fayyad just two miles west of FOB Richardson / Yusufiyah where 2 nd Platoon E Troop 108th CAV 48th Brigade GA NATL GUARD was stationed, turned out to be the location of a very powerful IED that seriously wounded two of Mike’s fellow soldiers, and could have easily killed others, and was the cause of Mike’s fatal wounds.

The insurgency succeeded in killing SGT Mike Stokely in the early morning hours of August 16, 2005, but they absolutely failed in their main objective which was to kill the spirit of Mike Stokely and his family and thereby cause us to cry out to bring the troops home and to wither into a false sense of security by isolation. As our family approaches the all important moment of 6:20 p.m. Tuesday, August 15 – which is 2:20 a.m. August 16 in Iraq, we stand more united and more committed to the war on terrorism and bringing a civilized peace for democracy to the people of Iraq. Friends, fellow soldiers and family will gather at the grave of Mike Stokely on GA 81 south of Loganville in Corinth Memorial Gardens, across from Corinth Christian Church at 1820 hours (6:20 p.m.) 15 Aug and we will remember Mike Stokely, SGT US Army – husband, son, brother and friend. We will remember what he stood for – Duty, Honor and Country. We will rejoice in his willingness to give his life for his country and the bible verse that is inscribed on his grave marker – John 15:13 – No Greater Love… I will speak these words – “as our first year of grieving comes to an end, let us always remember the mournful sound of TAPS , but let us now answer the call of Reveille and report for duty – a duty to live life fully and happily as a free people. Let the bugle sound Charge as we honor Mike Stokely by living full and happy lives as possible, for we owe him that much and we can best honor him in so doing that.

Our family is truly blessed to have had Mike Stokely for 23 years. In the year that has gone by since Mike's death, the Stokely family has been on an amazing journey of service as a family who sought to continue supporting the soldier dearest to our hearts after his death in the same manner we supported him as he lived. In return, we have been given an outpouring of support and generosity and seen great honor and tribute paid Mike. We will never forget what has been done for Mike and our family and it must be made known that such outpouring has made us able to endure this hardship of a broken heart. Mike would be embarassed at all the attention, and probably quite put out with me for all that I have written. In his humble, simple view of what he did, he would have said "what's the big deal, so I got killed in Iraq - get over it." He truly would not have seen what he did as a big deal, just as he didn't see it a big deal to stand on a roadway a few days before his own death and hold an IV bag for a wounded soldier. How could a father such as myself possibly deserve such a son? Surely the goodness of God is shown in his kindness by blessing me with the privilege and honor to be Mike Stokely's dad.

I close by saying this - while others debated, Mike Stokely served. While others continue to debate, we, as a family, stand committed to the service Mike Stokely gave his country and the principles of peace and freedom he found just causes worth dying for. Mike Stokely would do it all over again even knowing the eventual outcome of his own death. Mike Stokely wasn’t a SGT York, or Audie Murhpy. He was just a kid next door who wanted to do his duty, and was willing to die for his country He was loved by his family, friends, and fellow soldiers. He has been sorely missed by all of us. WE will never forget his name, his service, and certainly we will never forget his eyes and smile.

GOD BLESS the United States

Robert Stokely

When I click on it it works. Dont know what the prob is.

cpt.fass1 wrote:

Link that works??

http://thunderrun.blogspot.com/2006/08/ … ceive.html

unfortunately dogs have been the only way to really find the homemade devices, they are often concealed inside those concrete barriers, inside derelict cars, or in trash piles. I never understood though why I see some troops using hummers instead of.......dammit what are those big ass trucks called?........to push the abandoned cars off the road as opposed to backing into them with the flatbeds in the same convoy.

Bertster7 wrote:

Colfax wrote:

There is no better way to respond to this thread than to show you this....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/ … 6074-2.jpg

Support the troops fighting for our freedom.

How are the troops fighting for US freedom? I hear this all the time, yet I don't understand the phrase. In what way is going to other country and enforcing American values on people who aren't interested in them and meddling in the affairs on foreign states preserving US freedom?

What i can't understand is why people don't read a thread before commenting like blind idiots.

We are free because of the brave.  Its not a hard concept to grasp.  But being form the UK i guess you don't understand.  I guess they don't teach the U.S. Revolutionary War to you because you lost.  And that is where this image comes into play mainly.

We are free because brave men fought the red coats to give us that freedom.  You're so narrow minded that you dont look at something and accept it.  You have to criticize an image.  A f'ing image

I will say this again since i post it once already.  This image accounts for past, present and future events.