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07-13-03, 01:11 PM
Thread: 14 July 1967
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Hej Dick
Good to hear your still around ....
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07-08-03, 07:38 PM
Thread: US WWII Quotes
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How's about ....
KISS, SNAFU & FUBAR comes to mind!
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07-08-03, 07:11 PM
Thread: I'm going to he11 for this one ......
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I'm going to he11 for this one ......
This might be a repeat ... but what the hej!
A thought has crossed my mind that I don't fully understand. All
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07-08-03, 07:05 PM
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To Leon Uris … Hand Salute!
Faithfully followed his writings for 40+ years! You might be interested to know he knocked out his last novel before reporting to Chesty Puller’s Heavenly Guard... -
12-28-02, 09:34 PM
Thread: A question for you
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THOUGHTS
My reasons for joining the MARINES, very personal, sensitive and certainly not anything I would blast across cyberspace.
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12-28-02, 01:03 PM
Thread: Pictures from Vietnam, the other side
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VERY INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPHS
I checked the book out from our local library about six moths ago and found it very interesting and thought provoking.
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12-27-02, 11:17 PM
Thread: A Call To Arms !
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A different viewpoint!
Well let me see now ... a different viewpoint ... thoughts to pounder before the cannons boom!
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12-27-02, 12:59 PM
Thread: A Call To Arms !
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Maybe it's time to hear from Sgt. Kovic ...
Ron Kovic is a Vietnam Veteran, former Marine Corps Sergeant and author of Born on the 4th of July. Mr. Kovic along with Oliver Stone was the co-screenwriter of the film BORN ON THE 4th of JULY...
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12-26-02, 08:16 PM
Thread: Short Time Calendar
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Short Time Calendar
I started this sucker back in 68 and never finished it ... I thought it was lost. To my surprise I found it in back of one MCI Study Books ...
I'm so short I can sleep in a match box ...
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12-25-02, 10:29 AM
Thread: "Songs of Saigon"
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Watch Very Closely
The Magician elicits a loud cheer
When he pulls cards out of your ear.
But the VC astound you,
Amaze and confround you.
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12-24-02, 10:32 PM
Thread: What was the hardest part of bootcamp?
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THE HARDEST PART OF BOOT CAMP
Let me see ... I'm thinking ... don't rush me!
The whole experience, from the date I hit the yellow foots in 68 till the day I graduated and was called a MARINE! It was and still remainds the... -
12-24-02, 09:55 PM
Thread: On A Cold Christmas Night In 76
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On A Cold Christmas Night In 76
On Christmas night of 1776, when General Washington and his men camped by the Delaware River, he figured out a plan he thought would bring victory to his men. They would cross the Delaware River and...
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12-17-02, 05:26 PM
Thread: New Guy Here
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Hej Marine ... you buying the beer
Good place to hang your p1ss cutter and secure your seabag ... interesting posts and lots of scuttlebutt!
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12-05-02, 06:34 AM
Thread: Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh-hhaaaaaaa
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I've made a decision ...
Last night I made a point of doing an unofficial survey amount my teenage granddaughters and a couple of their friends. We know that teenagers knowledge base is massive and they are in the...
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12-04-02, 07:11 PM
Thread: This is rather... I dunno what to think.
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Let's see now ...
... commercials are fabrications of truth! Not far removed from propagandas and lies, we all know it! The AD people know, the TV people know it, the government knows it and everyone in between...
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12-04-02, 06:26 PM
Thread: Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh-hhaaaaaaa
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I'm going to make a special point
next time I'm at the store, I'll head to the soda isle and see what I can find! Mr. PIBBS or DR. PEPPER ... an impartial taste test from a beer drinker! This aught to be good ...
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12-04-02, 06:18 PM
Thread: Food For Thought
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Food For Thought
I CAN'T BELIEVE WE MADE IT!
Living as a Child in the 40's, 50's, or 60's and early 70's
Looking back, it's hard to believe that we've lived as long as we Have...
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12-03-02, 11:50 PM
Thread: Lawyers Continued
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check this out ...
I'm still roaring ..
http://home.earthlink.net/~rrichelsoph/Lawyer.html
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12-03-02, 11:46 PM
Thread: MOS School
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It's been 35 years ..
35 years since I enlisted and those Recruiters were the best! If I recalled correctly they (a team of two) went over everthing with my bro and I. It was stressed and restressed that your selected...
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12-03-02, 11:30 PM
Thread: Lawyers Continued
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Lawyers Continued
I saw a previous thread involving lawyers and it raise various issues involving vets and lack of lawyer representations.
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12-03-02, 11:19 PM
Thread: MOS School
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Oh I'm confused ...
Didn't we just have this similiar discuss on another thread ... somthing about giving advise on MOS!
I think it stand for 'ME OVER SEXED' or somthing like that!
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12-03-02, 11:14 PM
Thread: Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh-hhaaaaaaa
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NOW THAT 'S SOMTHING NEW ..
Of course it strange to me, don't drink soft drinks! :devious:
Always figured as long as there's beer 'the necker of the gods' ... well why waste time! As I've heard said '... life is just to... -
12-03-02, 11:07 PM
Thread: MARINES, Today I feel good.....
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FEELINGS
as Mark Twain once said ...
Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted... -
12-03-02, 11:01 PM
Thread: Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh-hhaaaaaaa
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OK... I HAVE TO ASK ...
It's got to be CRS ... but what is Pibb? A soft drink or somthing?
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12-02-02, 10:07 PM
Thread: Aaaaaaaahhhhhhh-hhaaaaaaa
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Even'ng Dr. Pepper
Female gender ... Women Marine type ... got my vote :thumbup:
I havn't been down around Glenview NAS for a liftime, wasn't that one of the bases that got padlocked? Back about 74 I worked in the...
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Ghost Of Iwo Jima
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