Memorial Day

[AFBlue]

God bless the fallen who gave their lives in defense of our freedom. Please keep the families and friends of those who made the ultimate sacrifice in your prayers and take a moment of silence to pay homage. They deserve it.

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I try to lodge this every M Day:::

The Shaw Memorial was unveiled on May 31, 1897, amid a great ceremony. Among the speakers was Booker T. Washington, president of Tuskegee Institute, who declared that his heart went out "to those who wore gray as well as to those clothed in blue...." More eloquent than any speech, though, was the moment when Sergeant William H. Carney, who had won a Medal of Honor for saving the 54th's national flag at Fort Wagner, came forward bearing he standard once more. "In dramatic effect, I have never seen or experienced anything which equaled this," wrote Washington. "For a number of minutes the audience seemed to entirely lose control of itself."

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[Gettysburg's fiftieth anniversary drew some 57,000 Union and Confederate veterans: members of America's newest generation were shown fields were history had been made while old soldiers gathered to retell their hard-earned war stories. In a ceremony freighted with symbolism, survivors of Pickett's division marched to the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge and shook hands with the very men in blue who had tried so hard to kill them fifty years earlier.]https://i1.wp.com/militaryhistorynow.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1913-Gettysburg.jpg?resize=560%2C277http://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/assets/images/site/topics/ECWC%20TOPIC%20Picketts%20Charge%20PIC%201913%20Re union%20at%20the%20Highwater%20Mark.jpg

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Trautman (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001077/?ref_=tt_trv_qu): Vagrancy wasn't it? That's gonna look real good on his grave stone in Arlington: Here lies John Rambo, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, survivor of countless incursions behind enemy lines. Killed for vagrancy in Jerkwater, USA.

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- "Just got the wind knocked out of me."

- Tom Sizemore - on the bridge - "Saving Private Ryan"

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[UNT Eagles 2016]

I personally like the one where the dog gives his army owner a big hug

[DD]

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That dude had a good reason to come home:wow

[Blake]

Lol

[Donny Donowitz]

It's been about 70 years since an American soldier actually died defending freedom. But :tu to those that did.

[Donny Donowitz]

- "Just got the wind knocked out of me."

- Tom Sizemore - on the bridge - "Saving Private Ryan"
How bout when I beat that Kraut soldier to death with my baseball bat?

[Thread]

How bout when I beat that Kraut soldier to death with my baseball bat?

That movie just doesn't appeal to me, DD. It's tedious & just about untenable to watch. That damn Tarantino grip to it. On & on.

He was clean & true 1 time:::"True Romance"

[UNT Eagles 2016]

It's been about 70 years since an American soldier actually died defending freedom. But :tu to those that did.

Afghanistan tbh? (Not Iraq)

[Donny Donowitz]

Afghanistan tbh? (Not Iraq)
Not even close.

[spurraider21]

when i visited DC earlier in the month, i did have a checklist of things i wanted to see, the vietnam memorial wasn't very high on the list. but i'd be lying if i said it wasn't one of the most memorable things i saw there

[DMC]

It's been about 70 years since an American soldier actually died defending freedom. But :tu to those that did.

You must really be unsure of that comment since you pulled that rarely used alt out to make it.

[DMC]

when i visited DC earlier in the month, i did have a checklist of things i wanted to see, the vietnam memorial wasn't very high on the list. but i'd be lying if i said it wasn't one of the most memorable things i saw there

Did you go to the hood there to find your father?

[spurraider21]

Did you go to the hood there to find your father?
If anything he would have been on the Soviet side

[Thread]

when i visited DC earlier in the month, i did have a checklist of things i wanted to see, the vietnam memorial wasn't very high on the list. but i'd be lying if i said it wasn't one of the most memorable things i saw there

Back in the late '80's they brought a replica of that Wall here and set it up in a cemetery. Even that was quite impressive.

[Chris]

That movie just doesn't appeal to me, DD. It's tedious & just about untenable to watch. That damn Tarantino grip to it. On & on.

He was clean & true 1 time:::"True Romance"

No love for Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs?

[Chris]

"Listen kid, I'm not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain't gonna get."

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No love for Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs?

I've tried "Dogs" till I'm blue in the face and I still can't stand it. I never could stand Pulp Fiction.

[pgardn]

How bout when I beat that Kraut soldier to death with my baseball bat?

You were a minor character.

Landa and Aldo Raines were fantastic. Captivating characters for sure.



Yeah, that's what we thought. We don't like et. You see, we like our Nazis in uniform. That way we can spot 'em just like that. But you take off that uniform, ain't no one ever gonna know you were a Nazi. And that don't sit well with us. So, I'm gonna give you a little something you can't take off

[spurraider21]

"Listen kid, I'm not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don't give a good fuck what you know, or don't know, but I'm gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It's amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I've heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain't gonna get."
hate that blonde died. i mean he's a sociopath, but the most likable character in the flick

[Avante]

Imagine the families of those in actual combat, what they must be going thru.

While I was in Viet Nam, no not really. We sat about 10-12 miles off the coast and spent all night tossing illuminous shells out which turns night into day. That was our job. We were as safe as a babe in the womb.

The only time I set foot on Vietnamese soil was to catch a flight out of there, my time was up. I was in Danang for about 8 hours just hanging out. Caught a C-5 which is a cargo carrier, yep...huge.

The bullshit we are put in at bootcamp is about as stupid as it gets. Totally dumb. Thank God I sprained my ankle in the second week (playing basketball) and got out of all that stupid marching around in circles going nowhere.

[Chris]

hate that blonde died. i mean he's a sociopath, but the most likable character in the flick

Tarantino gave him the best lines overall. "I don't like alarms Mr. White." The interview with Nice Guy Eddie was :tu

[Chucho]

Best Tarrantino flick of all time is Django Unchanined by about a million pounds of slave-picked cotton.

Reservoir Dogs is a close second. Don't mind Pulp, but not something I go out of my way to watch or is must-watch the way a Scoresese-prime flick.

The Kill Bill flicks, and Uma Thurman in general, can fuck right off, too.

Liked the Hateful 8 and Jackie Brown tho. Wasn't big on Basterds just being a history buff, it wouldn't jibe well with me.

[Chris]

Jackie Brown is a masterpiece :tu

[Thread]

Jackie Brown is a masterpiece :tu

It's tolerable, nothing more.

[Thread]

- "30 seconds. God be with you."

- "Boat pilot" - "Saving Private Ryan"

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- "I will see you on the beach."

- Tom Hanks - D-Day the 6th June - "Saving Private Ryan"

[Silver&Black]

Ike's D-Day speech


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J_FoO--Z-c