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Posted: 10/4/2001 6:01:14 AM EDT
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[b]Nothing in life is as exhilarating as having been shot at unsuccessfully!"[/b] --Winston Churchill.
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Posted: 10/4/2001 6:04:09 AM EDT
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Quoted: [b]Nothing in life is as exhilarating as having been shot at unsuccessfully!"[/b] --Winston Churchill. Right on! Gotta love Winston, the man KNEW what he was talking about. |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 6:04:49 AM EDT
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[b]"I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible & die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor & that of his country – Victory or Death."
--William Barrett Travis, at the Battle of The Alamo[/b] |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 6:07:25 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/4/2001 12:38:40 PM EDT
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Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything. --- Harry S. Truman
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Posted: 10/4/2001 12:45:09 PM EDT
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[b]"We deal in lead, friend."[b]
--Vin from "The Magnificent Seven," also found on the business card of a 1st MarDiv Scout/Sniper |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 12:48:20 PM EDT
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something to the effect of: "first we are going to blind it, then were going cut its head off, and then we are going to kill it." I can't remember if it was Colin Powell or Stormin' Norman during the Gulf War, talking about the Iraqi military.
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Posted: 10/4/2001 12:51:47 PM EDT
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Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.
Also, It's not that life is so short, it's that you're dead for so long. |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 12:55:01 PM EDT
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Yup, Winston Churchill was the man.
[b]"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.--There may be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."[/b] --Winston Churchill |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 3:14:00 PM EDT
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Quoted: something to the effect of: "first we are going to blind it, then were going cut its head off, and then we are going to kill it." I can't remember if it was Colin Powell or Stormin' Norman during the Gulf War, talking about the Iraqi military. Stormin' Norman it was. Good stuff guys. Keep them coming and try not to let this one get buried. |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 3:38:58 PM EDT
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Those who will sacrifice some little bit of liberty to achieve a little temporary security, deserve neither liberty nor security. Benjamin Franklin
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Posted: 10/4/2001 4:35:00 PM EDT
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Excerpted from Luke 22:36
"...and let him who has no sword sell his tunic and buy one." --Jesus Christ |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 4:46:56 PM EDT
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[b]"If the Constitution is to be construed to mean what the majority at any given period in history wish the Constitution to mean, why a written Constitution?"[/b] Frank J. Hogan, President, American Bar Assn. (1939)
Hard to believe that came ot of a lawyer's mouth, huh? |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 4:53:46 PM EDT
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"The thing I like best about travel is seeing new places and making new friends."
--- Genghis Khan "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it is gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." --- Frank Herbert, -- Dune [Mantra of the Bene Gesserit} |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 4:57:24 PM EDT
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"But if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burnt out cinder. Your choice is simple. Join us and live in peace or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you". [img]www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/images/movies/gort.jpg[/img] Klaatu: 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 5:07:40 PM EDT
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Gort! Klaatu barada nickto!
That takes care of him [;)] |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 5:24:34 PM EDT
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KLAATU- Calling Occupants...
What a LOOONNGG time ago. In the space theme: "I find your lack of faith disturbing." -Darth Vader, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 5:25:23 PM EDT
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Sometimes even the French got it right:
[b]My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929) French field marshal Battle of the Marne, 8 Sep 1914[/b] |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 5:34:03 PM EDT
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"I don't want to kill you, and you don't want to be dead." Danny Glover in "Silverado." A movie quote, but pretty good, anyway.
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Posted: 10/4/2001 5:36:21 PM EDT
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A great country can have no such thing as a little war.-The Duke of Wellington,1815.
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Posted: 10/4/2001 5:38:21 PM EDT
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"They've got us surrounded, those poor bastards."
-Troy |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 5:44:14 PM EDT
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"A young man who is not a liberal has no heart, an old man who is not a conservative has no brain."- Winston Churchill, the once and future king.
"Do what you will, just don't think Winny wasn't a good guy." |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 6:13:28 PM EDT
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Quoted: "They've got us surrounded, those poor bastards." -Troy Yeah, Osama and his World Wide Network got us in a bag. Right... |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 6:14:17 PM EDT
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"All things being equal, he who has the most bullets , wins!!!!"
snipertaz....just something i always say, |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 6:18:16 PM EDT
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[b]"Do not be concerned of the bullet with your name on it, there's nothing you can do... However, watch for the ones addressed "to whom it may concern"."[/b]
Don't know original author, quoted to me by Marine Gunny while in the Corps. Kiwi |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 6:19:16 PM EDT
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And one from TR:
"...success or failure will be conditioned upon the way in which the average man, the average woman, does his or her duty, first in the ordinary, every-day affairs of life, and next in those great occasional crises which call for the heroic virtues." -Theodore Roosevelt Citizenship in a Republic; Speech Delivered at Sorbonne, Paris April 23, 1910 |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 6:26:20 PM EDT
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"Ammo will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no ammo..."
F Franklin 1969 |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 7:29:58 PM EDT
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[b]"...now you've got me just where I want you..."[/b]
[b][red]Capt. James T. Kirk, USS Enterprise[/red][/b] |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 7:37:27 PM EDT
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One of my all time favorite quotes:
[b]"NUTS"[/b] Major-General Anthony Mcauliffe The Battle of the Bulge I believe that would have been the WWII version of "Come And Take It" ColtShorty GOA KABA COA JPFO SAF NRA "I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them." |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 7:46:02 PM EDT
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[b]Old soldiers never die..they just go to hell and Reorg![/b]
Don't know who coined the phrase but I heard it many times in the military. |
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Posted: 10/4/2001 7:54:48 PM EDT
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I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position." We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!"-Patton (who else?)
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Posted: 10/4/2001 9:31:04 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: something to the effect of: "first we are going to blind it, then were going cut its head off, and then we are going to kill it." I can't remember if it was Colin Powell or Stormin' Norman during the Gulf War, talking about the Iraqi military. Stormin' Norman it was. Good stuff guys. Keep them coming and try not to let this one get buried. Actually, it was Colin Powell. I remember the press conference, and he describes coming up with the line in his book. |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 3:24:27 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: something to the effect of: "first we are going to blind it, then were going cut its head off, and then we are going to kill it." I can't remember if it was Colin Powell or Stormin' Norman during the Gulf War, talking about the Iraqi military. Stormin' Norman it was. Good stuff guys. Keep them coming and try not to let this one get buried. Actually, it was Colin Powell. I remember the press conference, and he describes coming up with the line in his book. I stand corrected. Thanks |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 4:09:10 AM EDT
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"Lord! What fools these mortals be!"
Puck, in Midsumer Night's Dream |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 9:48:31 AM EDT
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Homer:"Beer: The cause of and solution to all of life's problems"
hehe And now a serious one: "Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"- Patrick Henry "... God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ... And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." -- Richard Henry Lee "If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." --Samuel Adams |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 10:31:09 AM EDT
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As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither
a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational art nor is he a tactician nor is he a general nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man. Norman Schwartzkopf Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 27, 1991 |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 11:08:55 AM EDT
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Liberty and Smoky, both of you came up with some good ones.
I love Stormin Norman's dry sense of humor. The Patton quote was excellent as well. True warrior spirit. And since Libertyof76 used the Sam Adams line I had queued up next, I'll have to revert to one from the Archives Of The Forgotten: [b] I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue! - Barry Goldwater [/b] |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 11:10:28 AM EDT
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And sometimes Truth slips from the mouths of babes and fools:
[b]"The president has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - George Stephanopolous, advisor to Bill Clinton [/b] |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 11:20:40 AM EDT
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Hale volunteered, in early September 1776, to perform spy duty behind the British lines on Long Island. Disguised as a schoolmaster, he secured vital military information, but on September 21, before he could return to safe territory, he was captured. The next morning he was hanged in New York City by the British as a spy. His last words are supposed to have been: [B]"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."[/b]
Nathan Hale |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 11:35:26 AM EDT
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Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. always be tactful and well-mannered and teach your subordinates to do the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide.
--Field Marshall Erwin Rommel |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 1:08:32 PM EDT
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One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does.
I would like very much to ensure — and in some cases I have — that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy. [i]-Jeff Cooper, "Cooper vs. Terrorism", Guns & Ammo Annual, 1975[/i] |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 1:17:50 PM EDT
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The gun lobby is big, they are poerful, and they are scary.
-Rosie O'Donnell, MMM |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 2:41:15 PM EDT
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When Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance of the huge Persian army.
"Our archers are so numerous," said the envoy, "that the flight of their arrows darkens the sun." "So much the better," replied Leonidas, "for we shall fight them in the shade." Molon Labe ! |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 3:09:51 PM EDT
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Quoted: The gun lobby is big, they are poerful, and they are scary. -Rosie O'Donnell, MMM Good, it's working! |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 3:11:31 PM EDT
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Quoted: Molon Labe ! ???? Definition please. |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 3:19:21 PM EDT
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I know I asked for Inspiring Quotes. This one inspired me to create a new award category.
[i][red]Cerberus hereby awards Evil Bitch Of The Day to...[red][/i] [b]"If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an out right ban, picking up every one of them... 'Mr. and Mrs. America, turn 'em all in,' I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here." -U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, CBS-TV's "60 Minutes.[/b] Ms. Feinstein, could you be a little more specific here? [pissed] Bitch! [pissed] |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 3:55:07 PM EDT
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[b]“Come and get them”.[/b]
When the Persian Emperor Xerxes invaded Greece in 480 BCE he had to pass through Thermopylae (the hot gates) a narrow defile and choke point. While the city-states of Greece were organizing an army and navy to fight the invader a small force of Spartans, Thespians and others led by one of the two Spartan kings, Leonidas, held them for seven days. After a number of his attacks were repulsed, Xerxes sent an emissary to Leonidas offering amnesty, wealth and position for all in the new order that the Emperor would make in the conquered land. All they would have to do is give up their arms. Leonidas’ reply was “Molon Labe”. The Spartans and their allies died to the last man, but the standard of valor set by their sacrifice inspired the Greeks to rally and, in that fall and spring, defeat the Persians at Salamis and Plataea and preserve the beginnings of Western democracy and freedom from perishing in the cradle. (edited 'cuz I can't spell) |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 4:03:45 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Molon Labe ! ???? Definition please. Molon labe (mo-lone lah-veh) Two little words. With these two words, two concepts were verbalized that have lived for nearly two and a half Millennia. They signify and characterize both the heart of the Warrior, and the indomitable spirit of mankind. From the ancient Greek, they are the reply of the Spartan General-King Leonidas to Xerxes, the Persian Emperor who came with 600,000 of the fiercest fighting troops in the world to conquer and invade little Greece, then the center and birthplace of civilization as we know it. When Xerxes offered to spare the lives of Leonidas, his 300 personal bodyguards and a handful of Thebans and others who volunteered to defend their country, if they would lay down their arms, Leonidas shouted these two words back. Molon Labe! (mo-lone lah-veh) They mean, “Come and get them!” They live on today as the most notable quote in military history. And so began the classic example of courage and valor in its dismissal of overwhelming superiority of numbers, wherein the heart and spirit of brave men overcame insuperable odds. Today, there lies a plaque dedicated to these heroes all at the site. It reads: “Go tell the Spartans, travelers passing by, that here, obedient to their laws we lie.” We have adopted this defiant utterance as a battle cry in our war against oppression because it says so clearly and simply towards those who would take our arms. It signifies our determination to not strike the first blow, but also to not stand mute and allow our loved ones, and all that we believe in and stand for, to be trampled by men who would deprive us of our God-given – or natural, if you will – rights to suit their own ends. |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 6:57:13 PM EDT
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Dying aint much of a livin boy
Jossie Wells |
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Posted: 10/5/2001 7:10:29 PM EDT
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"You have 5 airborne seconds to get off this m**F**ing bus and three of them are already gone. SFC Duhon; Fort Benning, GA
"One "OH Shit" wipes out a lot of atta boys." My Dad. "OH SHIT" what did you do!!! My Mom |
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