Damn, he almost got me.

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Posted: 9/2/2004 7:08:31 PM EDT

Welled up, wouldn't let 'em fall.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:11:33 PM EDT

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Welled up, wouldn't let 'em fall.

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Posted: 9/2/2004 7:12:01 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/2/2004 7:16:03 PM EDT

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Man if I was still on chemo Id be crying like a little school girl.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:16:46 PM EDT

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Close but no cigar.....

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:17:35 PM EDT

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Posted: 9/2/2004 7:17:43 PM EDT

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I let 'em roll, boys. Tears of pride and joy are OK in my book.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:17:50 PM EDT

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Bunch of sissies the whole lot of you!

Very moving speech.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:17:51 PM EDT

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Get em George.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:19:38 PM EDT

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+5 and that is saying A LOT for me.

W himself was about to let them fall and he had to fight 'em back.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:20:35 PM EDT

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He got me.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:21:03 PM EDT

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I ain't saying.
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Posted: 9/2/2004 7:21:51 PM EDT

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+7

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:22:53 PM EDT

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Sniff, Sniff, I sobbed with pride, the man DOES feel for our lost soldiers and veterens, what respect & honor from our Commander In Chief! God bless GWB!

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:24:28 PM EDT

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Fuck, I ain't ashamed to admit it.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:24:39 PM EDT

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And I have met with parents and wives and husbands who have received a folded flag, and said a final goodbye to a soldier they loved. I am awed that so many have used those meetings to say that I am in their prayers — to offer encouragement to me. Where does strength like that come from? How can people so burdened with sorrow also feel such pride? It is because they know their loved one was last seen doing good. Because they know that liberty was precious to the one they lost. And in those military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, and idealistic, and strong.

I barely made it through this.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:25:10 PM EDT

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+8

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:25:29 PM EDT

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+5 and that is saying A LOT for me.

W himself was about to let them fall and he had to fight 'em back.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:34:41 PM EDT

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And I have met with parents and wives and husbands who have received a folded flag, and said a final goodbye to a soldier they loved. I am awed that so many have used those meetings to say that I am in their prayers — to offer encouragement to me. Where does strength like that come from? How can people so burdened with sorrow also feel such pride? It is because they know their loved one was last seen doing good. Because they know that liberty was precious to the one they lost. And in those military families, I have seen the character of a great nation: decent, and idealistic, and strong.

I barely made it through this.

Me too.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:39:29 PM EDT

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He had me at "hello." No wait--my wife and I sat enraptured by him. We didn't look at each other during that part. Her boy leaves to return to Iraq very soon. She is on the phone making arrangements to go bring his truck home as I type this. These are tough times. God bless our Commander in Chief, President Bush.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:40:26 PM EDT

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None of it aroused much emotion in me.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:41:11 PM EDT

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None of it aroused much emotion in me.

Heartless?

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:42:25 PM EDT

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None of it aroused much emotion in me.

Then nothing decent will.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:46:05 PM EDT

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None of it aroused much emotion in me.

Then nothing decent will.

Whatever man. I just don't get teary eyed or excited about stuff like this. Not personal enough I guess.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:46:55 PM EDT

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None of it aroused much emotion in me.

Then nothing decent will.

Whatever man. I just don't get teary eyed or excited about stuff like this. Not personal enough I guess.

I had friends and family in Iraq. It's very personal to me.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:47:38 PM EDT

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Fuck, I ain't ashamed to admit it.

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eta:

They got me on Monday as well.

Talking about Flight 93 always gets
me. Something about common people
facing certain death brings out my
emotions.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:48:46 PM EDT

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Zell Miller got me.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:49:05 PM EDT

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None of it aroused much emotion in me.

Then nothing decent will.

Whatever man. I just don't get teary eyed or excited about stuff like this. Not personal enough I guess.

I had friends and family in Iraq. It's very personal to me.

+1

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:50:45 PM EDT

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None of it aroused much emotion in me.

Then nothing decent will.

Whatever man. I just don't get teary eyed or excited about stuff like this. Not personal enough I guess.

I had friends and family in Iraq. It's very personal to me.

I have a couple friends and cousins over there too. I'm not poo pooing his speech or anything like that. Just saying that it didn't get me emotionally worked up. Mostly my reaction was just "glad to hear the man in charge thinks that way".

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:55:37 PM EDT

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I have a couple friends and cousins over there too. I'm not poo pooing his speech or anything like that. Just saying that it didn't get me emotionally worked up. Mostly my reaction was just "glad to hear the man in charge thinks that way".

Okay. I didn't mean to come across as harsh. As I get older though, since having kids and especially since my dad died, I tend to get emotional at the thought of kids left without a father. It always hits me hard.

Posted: 9/2/2004 7:57:56 PM EDT

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I welled up during Governor Pataki's speech. My job for the Governor included handling the World Trade Center Relief Fund's public relations. I took a lot of the calls from out of state volunteering bodies and supplies... calls from children sending their allowance... retirees sending their social security checks... an old lady who cried because all she could send were her prayers... another who was too scared to sleep in the early hours of September 12 and I stayed up with her for three hours until she was calm enough to. If you weren't there... you just couldn't know.

I didn't know people like Helldoggy at the time, but I saw his brethren crawling the pit in the days after. I was a safe distance with the dignataries, he was risking his life. God bless. We were so united in those days, now we are so divided... between those who remember that awful day and want to ensure it never happens again... and those who want to forget, and who think if we just mind our own business we won;t have to worry again.

God bless you Mr. President!

Posted: 9/2/2004 8:00:19 PM EDT

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For a man who's no orator, he did a damned fine job.

Posted: 9/2/2004 8:18:19 PM EDT

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Got me.

The power went out and I missed a little - power came back on at 2128. Need to find the transcript right now.

Posted: 9/2/2004 8:25:49 PM EDT

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Got me.

The power went out and I missed a little - power came back on at 2128. Need to find the transcript right now.

It's been added to the first post of the long thread. BRB with link.

Edit: Link==www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=270330

Posted: 9/2/2004 8:29:04 PM EDT

[#34]

Yea yea yea....he got me too.

Guess I'm not such a girly man now.

Posted: 9/2/2004 8:32:13 PM EDT

[#35]

It definitely was moving. How can people say he sucks as a speaker? He may mispronounce some stuff, but the meaning always comes through. To me, that is honesty. And that's what we need. A moral compass and some honesty.

JMHO

Woody

Posted: 9/3/2004 2:22:20 PM EDT

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Got me.

The power went out and I missed a little - power came back on at 2128. Need to find the transcript right now.
It's been added to the first post of the long thread. BRB with link.

Edit: Link==www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=270330

Thank you...

Posted: 9/3/2004 2:39:14 PM EDT

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I was not crying, my eyeballs were sweating. When his eyes start watering and you can see the muscles in his face changing, i get emotional too! But it is like a moral shot in the arm for me as well, leaving me overflowing with courage and pride.

Posted: 9/3/2004 2:42:14 PM EDT

[#38]

Arnold did the same thing and yes they both had me dabbing at something in my eyes.

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Posted: 9/3/2004 4:31:28 PM EDT

[#39]

...........Then John Kerry came out at midnight with his bs speech. He gave the same exact speech today in another part of Ohio. Lying about what the president said, about Kerry's record. He sure as hell isn't going to publicly address anything Zell Miller said at the convention, because it is true.

I'm tired of Ohio being a "battleground state". I can't watch network tv without seeing two Kerry adds in ten minutes...

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