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And when I listened to this woman and what she was saying, and what she was doing on TV, the only thing I could do to collect my thoughts was to go and walk among the finest men and women on this Earth. And you can always find them because they’re in Arlington National Cemetery. I went over there for an hour-and-a-half, walked among the stones, some of whom I put there because they were doing what I told them to do when they were killed. John F. Kelly

A simple "Thank you" isn't enough is it?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 02:15 PM

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1 No words are adequate.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 22, 2017 02:20 PM (rnAwa)

2 Freddie Wilson and the 500 hats.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 22, 2017 02:21 PM (IqV8l)

3 RIP Warriors.

Posted by: X-ray at October 22, 2017 02:21 PM (bvE6q)

4
Something I will always be proud of, that once I was good enough to walk with men like these.

Posted by: irongrampa at October 22, 2017 02:22 PM (S/hVx)

5 That is moving. Why someone would take such a moment and politicize it -whether they are on the left or the right-just seems macabre. These people, these men and women put on a uniform, and went where they were told to go. They fought, and some of them died. Why not honor them, and cherish their memory, and thank their families for the sacrifice, instead of taking cheap political shots so you can be a "rock star."

Posted by: moki at October 22, 2017 02:22 PM (V+V48)

6 4 irongrampa

You put it better than I could.

I stood watch to the best of my ability and very bad things did not happen on my watch.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 02:24 PM (hyuyC)

7 "...Some of whom I put there, because they were doing what I told them to do when they were killed."

That portion of Kelly's statement gave me the chills.

Posted by: Blake at October 22, 2017 02:27 PM (WEBkv)

8 Earn it.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 02:27 PM (jHrzU)

9 Irongrampa, I share your sentiments, I too, was privileged to walk among giants. I am happy they let me walk among them for as long as I was able.

RIP Warriors, and Semper Fidelis, especially to the young Marines and their brother that they refuse to forget in the photograph above.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at October 22, 2017 02:28 PM (DxWUs)

10 Visiting the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier should be on every Moron's bucket list.

I was among about 30 tourists (and a chick I was trying to undress, but that's another story) and I could have heard a pin drop during the changing of the guard.

Posted by: logprof cranking up Henry's Dress at October 22, 2017 02:28 PM (GsAUU)

11 I don't know what Trump said, or in what context, but if someone says something like "He knew what he was getting into" about mine, I would consider it a great compliment because knowing that, they were still there.

Posted by: Javems at October 22, 2017 02:29 PM (yOqwj)

12 My Dad is there. A truly special place. Everyone should try and visit once.

Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 02:29 PM (HBuMf)

13 That portion of Kelly's statement gave me the chills.

Posted by: Blake at October 22, 2017 02:27 PM (WEBkv)

Me too.

I am not overly fond of Kelly, but it is clear that he understands that our fighting men are not pieces on a game board.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 22, 2017 02:29 PM (wYseH)

14
The left is not normal.

I tried to explain the problem with the left with an analogy to my wife. We all drive down the road and approach a blind curve with the expectation that no car is coming in our direction on the wrong side of the road. Because these are the rules.

The left wants to tear up all the rules, set them on fire, then spit in our face.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at October 22, 2017 02:29 PM (EgwCt)

15 A simple "Thank you" isn't enough is it?

No. It absolutely is not.

Posted by: antisocialist at October 22, 2017 02:30 PM (W2wn0)

16

Anyone else expecting the Other Shoe To Drop in this farce?

By this, I mean the widow suing the US govt for big $$ for some idiotic reason devised by a lawyer?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at October 22, 2017 02:31 PM (0/NKA)

17 Recommend going if you're running a little early on your subway trip to Reagan Aeroport (which the Authoritaaahs are pretending is "DCA").

Stop off the train for an hour or so.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 22, 2017 02:31 PM (ofVSV)

18 Slippery Slope Salesman

Which is why I keep my 96 Suburban

Posted by: Jean at October 22, 2017 02:32 PM (u5q7j)

19 A special thanks to Mark Steyn for introducing me to this beautiful song:

https://youtu.be/CzMy7-7WV44

Posted by: logprof cranking up Henry's Dress at October 22, 2017 02:32 PM (GsAUU)

20 Donald is right. The Democrats sent in the clowns to distract from the Clintons and Obama selling us out to the Russians.

Makes my blood boil. These people are not human. They are animals who will sacrifice all of us on their altar of greed.

Posted by: ALH at October 22, 2017 02:33 PM (tNY18)

21 My friend Dave got blown up in Fallujah. He was a platoon sgt for infantry marines. He got away with "just" a tbi. Still has his intellect, but lost his "filter" and significant emotional control. (Honestly it was never that good anyway- once, when we were bot Lcpls, we had to "police" cigarette buts from base camp wilson in the Mojave all the 9 miles to 29 stumps because of something he said and I did. He lost several of his marines the day of the ied. God bless them all- and maybe pray that Frederica has an epiphany and learns to be a human being.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2017 02:33 PM (sqpGi)

22 Was at an event yesterday and an ex-Ranger was talking about jumping out of airplanes while they flew 55 feet above the ground.

How do you do that?

Posted by: Meremortal, with hand over heart at October 22, 2017 02:34 PM (3myMJ)

23 Semper Fi Farmer Bob.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at October 22, 2017 02:35 PM (DxWUs)

24 23- ooh rah brother!

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2017 02:37 PM (sqpGi)

25 Greetings:

Kind of interesting that the prominent grave marker is that of a Jewish female soldier. Can't help but wonder what percentage of the Arlington internees fit those demographics.

When the Negro Green Beret who was killed in Niger was first identified as "La David", I thought to myself, "Oh, this should be interesting.

I curse (and on the Lord's Day) those who have caused those kind of thoughts to arise in what's left of my brain.

Posted by: 11B40 at October 22, 2017 02:38 PM (evgyj)

26 A simple "Thank you" isn't enough is it?

No, it certainly is not. But for those who can't even say thank you, like shitbag cowgirl, how about you just shut the fuck up.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 02:38 PM (NWiLs)

27 I spent four years - '79 - '81 - in the Air Force. (Yeah, yeah, I've heard all the Air Force jokes, my husband is a retired Marine but still...)
When someone says "thank you for your service" to me, it's a little awkward because I really didn't DO anything. We weren't at war. There was little to no chance of being sent into combat. I fixed airplanes, that's all. Learned a trade, and I've spent the last 32 years working for the DOD as a civilian - fixing airplanes.
The kids who are on active duty today - they're the real deal, and I eagerly defer any "thanks" I might receive to them. They DO know what they're getting into, and they do it because they WANT to. My son in law is a Marine, his brother is in the Army, his dad is retired from the Army (and did his time in Iraq). My heroes, all of them.

Posted by: antisocialist at October 22, 2017 02:38 PM (W2wn0)

28 Gen. Kelly's comments were sobering and profound. What a contrast between him and that odious blathering grifter in a toy hat.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 22, 2017 02:39 PM (qUPFC)

29 @11B40, yeah, I curse it, too.

Take it back to Stromfront.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 02:39 PM (jHrzU)

30 Slippery,

Not only don't hey want to tear up the rules, they refuse to acknowledge that their ideas have all been tried and failed. The rules are lessons learned, not abstract intellectual concepts.

And, those we're hard lessons - written in blood.

Posted by: Jean at October 22, 2017 02:39 PM (u5q7j)

31 27 They also serve who sit and wait.

Thank you for your service!

Posted by: ALH at October 22, 2017 02:40 PM (tNY18)

32 One quibble, the finest also reside in cemeteries across the globe. In the deep dark of the oceans, steaming jungles,
of the Pacific, barren desert wastes, and farmers fields scattered across this country.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 22, 2017 02:40 PM (RKYty)

33 No matter how many times I see Kelly's statement, I get tears in my eyes. Probably always will.

And that woman, who I refuse to name, needs to be on Insomniac's mailing list. Of course, she'd probably like it. And those stupid, stupid hats...ugh.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:40 PM (Axa8z)

34 I know many WWII vets and several Vietnam vets but only a couple vets from the ME. They are the 1%. Amazing a force so small can have such a huge impact when allowed to.

Posted by: X-ray at October 22, 2017 02:40 PM (bvE6q)

35 There's a part of me that wishes I'd served, but I would have been in under Clinton, so there's that other part of me that's glad I didn't.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 02:41 PM (NWiLs)

36 Why the fuck are U.S. peeps in Niger?

Let that hellhole rot to shit.

Posted by: logprof cranking up Henry's Dress at October 22, 2017 02:41 PM (GsAUU)

37 How long before the religious symbols have to be removed from the tombstones at Arlington?

Posted by: George LeS at October 22, 2017 02:42 PM (+TcCF)

38 I have come to hate DC.
I have spent a lot of of time there over the years. The Capital, the buildings, the history...all are dead to me.

Except Arlington National Cemetery.

There, the fraud, the corruption, the lies all fall away. It is the only place inside the Beltway that I feel at peace. It is the only place worth visiting.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 22, 2017 02:42 PM (0tfLf)

39 Whatever else about GEN Powell, he made a speech with these words:

"And did we ask for any land? No, the only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead. And that is the kind of nation we are."

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 02:42 PM (jHrzU)

40 33 No matter how many times I see Kelly's statement, I get tears in my eyes. Probably always will.

And that woman, who I refuse to name, needs to be on Insomniac's mailing list. Of course, she'd probably like it. And those stupid, stupid hats...ugh.
Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:40 PM (Axa8z)

Bag of Dicks International, Inc. We ship around the globe! Anywhere, on the quick, we can send that bag of dicks!

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 02:43 PM (NWiLs)

41 That comment by General Kelly, about those who now lie reposed in Arlington at his direction reminds me of General Peter Pace, when he was shamefully not held over as the Chairman Joint Chiefs. He went to the Vietnam Memorial Wall, and left a set of his 4 Stars at each of the Marines killed under his command. They not only experienced Command, but they learned the most important lessons of it.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at October 22, 2017 02:44 PM (DxWUs)

42 Any Medal of Honor person will tell you where the true heroes are. They mean it.

Posted by: Jeff Carter at October 22, 2017 02:45 PM (OcQO1)

43 Quien es mas estupido?

Frederika Wilson, or Corrine Brown?

Posted by: logprof cranking up Henry's Dress at October 22, 2017 02:45 PM (GsAUU)

44 On active duty we were links in a chain. We stood in for those who held the line in the past, and passed on our duty to those serving today.

I am humbled by those that liberated Iraq and made part of Afghanistan passible. All those who crushed ISIS in the last year, and those who struggled to train other militaries. I salute them.

These great service members and all their sacrifice has never been acknowledged by the Left and their lackey, the press.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 02:46 PM (hyuyC)

45 Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 02:43 PM (NWiLs)

I'd say put little hats on them, but she'd like that. Wait...put little MAGA hats on them! And put MAGA on the bag! She'd hate that, and throw a shit fit. Which I would enjoy.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:46 PM (Axa8z)

46 There's a part of me that wishes I'd served, but I would have been in under Clinton, so there's that other part of me that's glad I didn't.
Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 02:41 PM (NWiLs)

My husband's retirement certificate has Billy Jeff's signature on it. He absolutely refuses to put it anywhere on a wall in our house. No earthly idea where it is right now.
He says he feels bad for those guys who have O'Bozo's signature on theirs.

Posted by: antisocialist at October 22, 2017 02:47 PM (W2wn0)

47 I want Trump to shove this down their throats. Fly into Raaqa and thank our boys. Blow this bitch off the news.

Posted by: Jean at October 22, 2017 02:47 PM (u5q7j)

48 I watched Taking Chance this morning.

General Kelly references it in his speech. I cried during the General's speech, and I bawled throughout that movie.

Many heartfelt thanks to those who have served, and those families who have lost loved ones while serving.

Posted by: squeakywheel at October 22, 2017 02:48 PM (jQqG/)

49 Farmer Bob, noticed on yesterday's gun thread that you were in Albany, GA when you first shot a gun.

That's where I grew up, left when I went in the Navy.

Posted by: PMRich at October 22, 2017 02:48 PM (w5Qj0)

50 I just noticed the little boy in the pic. Little boys love hanging out with the men. He must feel so proud and happy right now. I think it is so cool his dad, or uncle, or whomever brought him.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:49 PM (Axa8z)

51 Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla

Left you a little note on the last thread. So you were not willowed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 02:50 PM (hyuyC)

52 Black ribbon the signature out. Substitute a small photo of Reagan or Trump beside it.

Posted by: Jack is Back! at October 22, 2017 02:50 PM (lYSDi)

53 45 Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 02:43 PM (NWiLs)

I'd say put little hats on them, but she'd like that. Wait...put little MAGA hats on them! And put MAGA on the bag! She'd hate that, and throw a shit fit. Which I would enjoy.
Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:46 PM (Axa8z)

*fills out order slip*

I can give you fixed-rate shipping since it's in-state, but the customization will run you an extra 20% over standard retail.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 02:50 PM (NWiLs)

54 Gardens of Stone.

I saw it when I was a young lieutenant, in the schoolhouse before going out the Army.

Bawled my eyes out.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 02:50 PM (jHrzU)

55 My husband's retirement certificate has Billy Jeff's signature on it. He absolutely refuses to put it anywhere on a wall in our house. No earthly idea where it is right now.
He says he feels bad for those guys who have O'Bozo's signature on theirs.
Posted by: antisocialist at October 22, 2017 02:47 PM (W2wn0)

I can only imagine.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 02:51 PM (NWiLs)

56 My husband's retirement certificate has Billy Jeff's
signature on it. He absolutely refuses to put it anywhere on a wall in
our house. No earthly idea where it is right now.

He says he feels bad for those guys who have O'Bozo's signature on theirs.

Posted by: antisocialist at October 22, 2017 02:47 PM (W2wn0)

Mine won't ever be displayed, I have Obama's signature, very disappointing to be sure.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at October 22, 2017 02:51 PM (DxWUs)

57 >>>He says he feels bad for those guys who have O'Bozo's signature on theirs.

I never met anybody who cared that strongly one way or the other.

FYI, the grave they are sitting around is Thomas Z Spitzer, SGT, USMC from Texas.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy - Bunch Em If You Got Em at October 22, 2017 02:51 PM (RrhD2)

58 The local middle school hosts an annual veteran's day commemoration for all who served. Every year I am amazed at how many vets are in town (and how much older they have become). There can never be enough thanks to those who served and to those who gave their all.

Posted by: auscolpyr at October 22, 2017 02:53 PM (pzA2L)

59 @ 47

Fuck her and her cohorts. All they do, like any empty barrel, is make noise.

Posted by: irongrampa at October 22, 2017 02:53 PM (S/hVx)

60 54 Gardens of Stone.

I saw it when I was a young lieutenant, in the schoolhouse before going out the Army.

Bawled my eyes out.
Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 02:50 PM (jHrzU)

--One of the handful of movies that make me dusty.

Posted by: logprof cranking up Henry's Dress at October 22, 2017 02:53 PM (GsAUU)

61 And Wilson and the fucking democrats will roll with her and her despicable stance, fun-raising all the way.

Someone needs to dig into the story and describe how she got patched into the call to the bereaved.

Someone needs, some day when things have gotten cooler, to interview the bereaved and ask why she agreed to patch Wilson into the call.

And ask why Wilson was permitted to listen, unannounced to PDT.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at October 22, 2017 02:54 PM (U6f54)

62 They not only experienced Command, but they learned the most important lessons of it.
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared
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At one point I had an Engineering Manager who was patently unsuited for the job. He was a fine engineer, but he had been Peter Principled into management.

He had no idea that he simply was not suited to the task, to the extent that he was damaging morale in the R&D department.

Against his wishes, his son joined the Army when he graduated from high school. When I heard that, I thought to myself, "His son is going to learn more about leadership in the first six months than his old man has in his entire life.."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2017 02:54 PM (nBBdT)

63 And Wilson and the fucking democrats will roll with her and her despicable stance, fun-raising all the way.

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and all while playing the victim card to PDT's statement. Eff them all, (barbed wire, pineapple,....etc)

Posted by: auscolpyr at October 22, 2017 02:55 PM (pzA2L)

64 All they do, like any empty barrel, is make noise.
Posted by: irongrampa
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That is racist, because...something, something.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2017 02:56 PM (nBBdT)

65
I find it disturbing how the narrative has changed from Wilson accused PDT of being disrespectful (which is actually what she said) to the widow and is now being portrayed on every news show as she accused him of being insensitive.Those are two different words with entirely different connotations.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at October 22, 2017 02:56 PM (PtOP4)

66 We have a Veteran's Day Parade every year. It's led by a squad from the 1st Infantry Division, and it includes almost all the elementary school children in the local area.

One year I'll march in it, but my training in marching in step is long ago. And Navy is to good marching like the Left is to reason; not close.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 02:56 PM (hyuyC)

67 *fills out order slip*

I can give you fixed-rate shipping since it's in-state, but the customization will run you an extra 20% over standard retail.
Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 02:50 PM (NWiLs)

Okay. Now, can I pay in Oreos?

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:57 PM (Axa8z)

68 My dad and my brother are both there. It is the most sacred place.

Couple of years ago I missed my Christmas wreath laying at the beginning of Dec and went over around 4 on Christmas Eve. It was cloudy and, at that time of the year, dusk. It was spitting snow. I laid the wreath on my dad's grave and then, as my brother had only died the year before, went to the columbarium but my usual sense of direction failed me and I had to wander. There was no one else anywhere near, the closest maybe 3/4 of a mile up the road where the visitor center is.

Me, on a snowy dusk on Christmas eve with a million graves. I was honored. It was a supernatural experience.

Posted by: dagny at October 22, 2017 02:58 PM (wqVha)

69 67 *fills out order slip*

I can give you fixed-rate shipping since it's in-state, but the customization will run you an extra 20% over standard retail.
Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 02:50 PM (NWiLs)

Okay. Now, can I pay in Oreos?
Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 02:57 PM (Axa8z)

*thousand-yard stare*

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 02:58 PM (NWiLs)

70 Was at an event yesterday and an ex-Ranger was talking about jumping out of airplanes while they flew 55 feet above the ground.

How do you do that?

Posted by: Meremortal,
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Rappel from a chopper.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2017 02:59 PM (nBBdT)

71 Frederica Wilson, Cindy Sheehan, and others like Jean Francois Cary are vile chimpanzees who follow in the footsteps of Garibaldi. They wave the bloody shirt for pure partisan means that benefit only them.

And we swore an oath to defend them from the consequences of their perfidy.

Kelly's remarks remind me of the General who turned his back on the assembled dignitaries at Anzio to apologize to the men who died under his command.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at October 22, 2017 02:59 PM (qZSgP)

72 when I was in Basic Training there was a guy who was a Vietnam Vet, he decided to come back into the Army. During our first Dress Greens inspection we were in awe of his Awards on his chest, he had a Medal of Honor. Can you imagine making someone like that take Basic again?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 22, 2017 03:00 PM (d4O0p)

73 66 We have a Veteran's Day Parade every year. It's led by a squad from the 1st Infantry Division, and it includes almost all the elementary school children in the local area.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 02:56 PM (

That's wonderful. Hopefully the SJWs won't meddle and call it divisive. They really have become the devil's minions.

I did see your response on prior thread. Ty. I hope you are right!

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 03:03 PM (Axa8z)

74 Me, on a snowy dusk on Christmas eve with a million graves. I was honored. It was a supernatural experience.

Posted by: dagny
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On quiet, late Sunday afternoons, I would occasionally go walk around the National Cemetery at Marietta, Georgia. It was always deserted and quiet.

The cemetery was originally established for interment those who died at Kennesaw Mountain and Atlanta, and has been used ever since. I found it impossible to read the names, and not try to imagine who they were, and what they had been through.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2017 03:05 PM (nBBdT)

75 *thousand-yard stare*

Okay, is that a no? I don't speak Floridian real well. Do you take Monopoly money perchance? How about some old Confederate bonds? Bitcoin?

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 03:07 PM (Axa8z)

76 Anna Puma (HQCaR)

A story idea for you. Either a special magical spell or a biochemical concoction in DMSO that turns human behavior into the virtues found in dogs. There may be some limits to the magic, or hilarity could ensue.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 03:07 PM (hyuyC)

77 68 dagny

Thank you for telling us that memory. Very special.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 03:09 PM (hyuyC)

78 Put your cat clothes on !

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 03:09 PM (PUmDY)

79 How about some old Confederate bonds? Bitcoin?
Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla
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Just as a passing matter, which would you imagine is worth more, a Confederate $10 bill, or a current $10 bill?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2017 03:10 PM (nBBdT)

80 75 *thousand-yard stare*

Okay, is that a no? I don't speak Floridian real well. Do you take Monopoly money perchance? How about some old Confederate bonds? Bitcoin?
Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 03:07 PM (Axa8z)

Cash, money order or any major credit card. You think I'm running a charity around here? Sheesh, some people...

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 03:10 PM (NWiLs)

81 Much like walking along the Vietman Memorial Wall in DC looking for names you might remember from your days in the army...

Posted by: Colin at October 22, 2017 03:13 PM (+eFu7)

82 My biggest regret is not serving. I was on the delayed entry program under Carter and would have served under Reagan. Alas, little infidel came along.

Posted by: Infidel at October 22, 2017 03:14 PM (4ZKcy)

83 My biggest regret is not serving. I was on the delayed entry program under Carter and would have served under Reagan. Alas, little infidel came along.
Posted by: Infidel
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Dr.? Lawyer? Dentist?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2017 03:15 PM (nBBdT)

84 @ 79

Go buy an ice cream cone and pay for it with a Confederate $10--you'll find out JUST what they're worth.

Posted by: irongrampa at October 22, 2017 03:15 PM (S/hVx)

85 71 Anna Puma (HQCaR). I know you know the general was General Lucian Truscott.

From Wiki:
Bill Mauldin described the time Truscott gave the address on Memorial Day, May 31, 1945, in the military cemetery at Nettuno, outside Anzio: "He turned his back on the assembled windbags and sparklers and talked to the crosses in the cemetery, quietly, apologizing, and then walked away without looking around."

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 03:16 PM (hyuyC)

86 Salty Dawg...

Uhm do you really want to watch news anchors of CBS, ABC, and NBC licking their balls while the cameras rolled?

Full stop. Have at it.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at October 22, 2017 03:16 PM (qZSgP)

87
Go buy an ice cream cone and pay for it with a Confederate $10--you'll find out JUST what they're worth.
Posted by: irongrampa at October 22, 2017 03:15 PM (S/hVx)
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I would like an ice cream cone.

Posted by: Weasel at October 22, 2017 03:17 PM (HBuMf)

88 Just as a passing matter, which would you imagine is worth more, a Confederate $10 bill, or a current $10 bill?

Okay, this is a trick question. Instead of internet searching I'm gonna guess. It would depend on it's use. To buy goods it'd be current one. But as a piece of history I'd think the $10 bill would cost more to buy, if it was rare. So it depends on the metric of worth.

I probably shouldn't post this, b/c I have a bad feeling I've missed something in the question. Like, there was no $10 confederate bill, or some such.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 03:17 PM (Axa8z)

89 Donovan's Season of the Witch is a great songwriting

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 03:19 PM (PUmDY)

90 Cash, money order or any major credit card. You think I'm running a charity around here? Sheesh, some people...

RAISES HAND

Posted by: Some people & Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 03:19 PM (Axa8z)

91 My son goes frequently, and always on Memorial and Veteran's Days to visit the men from his platoon or under his command killed in Kunar, Afghanistan. He was lucky - only wounded and sent home, but Jacob Molina, Robert B Cowdrey, Houston M. Taylor, and James M. Christen came home covered in honor and glory. They deserve our respect and thanks. I'd especially like to thank Staff Sergeant Cowdrey, 3rd Battalion, 82nd Airborne Brigade, killed evacuating wounded from Observation Post Shal, October 13, 2011.

I don't know if those families got calls from the man who sent them to Kunar, but for what it's worth, Barack Obama did visit my son (and others) at Walter Reed. They went to the same school (my son 20 years later) and both grew up in the same part of Honolulu.

Posted by: JohnM at October 22, 2017 03:19 PM (AeNGk)

92 86 Anna Puma (HQCaR)

The good parts. Do!

Well, I'm not the one that watches TV. My wife might like it, if they are particularly bendy. And no, I'm not going to ask her. That would not be prudent.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 03:19 PM (hyuyC)

93 I'm currently reading (at last) Grant's Memoirs.

Years ago I heard that aside from the Fathers, it was the best work by a President ever written.

So far, I have to agree.

Just one bone on Kindle.

Posted by: logprof cranking up Henry's Dress at October 22, 2017 03:20 PM (GsAUU)

94 The Wall is one of the best monuments to war dead - it was quite controversial at the time.

But it gets it exactly right. As you walk down the slope the sounds of the city are muffled until it seems silent at the corner.

First time I went (in the 80s) there was a guy there with his son, probably 8-10 years old. He was pointing out the names of his friends.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 03:20 PM (jHrzU)

95 Lucian Truscott swallowed carbolic acid as a child which gave him a truly gravely voice. He also tended to pass the division and regimental HQs to go straight for the front lines to see what some Captain was doing while inspiring the men. Bill Mauldin in his book The Brass Ring one time accompanied Truscott on one of this trips and Mauldin was scared even as Truscott gave him inspiration for a cartoon about the dogfaces begging the General to not inspire them so much.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at October 22, 2017 03:20 PM (qZSgP)

96 Oh no, must be the season of the witch

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 03:21 PM (PUmDY)

97 Brattleboro wants to thank all soldiers that fought and dired under Presdent Obma's command. Thank you and we loved our Presdent of Coler and everything you did to make him look strong....

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro at October 22, 2017 03:21 PM (WmgTn)

98 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2017 03:15 PM (nBBdT)

Navy peon. I was in WA in '79.

Posted by: Infidel at October 22, 2017 03:21 PM (4ZKcy)

99 90 Cash, money order or any major credit card. You think I'm running a charity around here? Sheesh, some people...

RAISES HAND
Posted by: Some people & Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 03:19 PM (Axa8z)

You're just trying to goad me into sending you a bag of dicks for free. Not gonna happen.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 03:22 PM (NWiLs)

100 I probably shouldn't post this, b/c I have a bad feeling I've missed something in the question. Like, there was no $10 confederate bill, or some such.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla
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No, you have it right. A genuine Confederate $10 bill be worth more than $10, because collector value, just as a $10 Silver Certificate will be worth more than a Federal Reserve Note.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2017 03:22 PM (nBBdT)

101 #36 ISIS types are infiltrating the region. Surprisingly King Putt first sent troops there.

Posted by: torabora at October 22, 2017 03:22 PM (ZKeXj)

102 Anna Puma (HQCaR)

Yes, that cartoon is in Up Front.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 22, 2017 03:22 PM (hyuyC)

103 All Confederate $10 notes are worth more than $10. Depending on the condition & issue, one could be worth between $50 - $5,000

Posted by: josephistan at October 22, 2017 03:23 PM (ANIFC)

104 103 All Confederate $10 notes are worth more than $10. Depending on the condition & issue, one could be worth between $50 - $5,000
Posted by: josephistan at October 22, 2017 03:23 PM (ANIFC)

Which renders the phrase: "Not worth a Confederate" meaningless these days.

Posted by: Blake at October 22, 2017 03:24 PM (WEBkv)

105 I hate that Kelly is being called a liar by this silly hat woman and her Trump-hater friends. Kelly remembered his impression of the speech, but got a detail wrong: She wasn't banging on about her own role in the funding of the building, she was banging on about her role in the naming of the building. I watched her 2015 speech. She was self-aggrandizing.

Posted by: lily at October 22, 2017 03:25 PM (5Rl8X)

106 Donovan's Season of the Witch is a great songwriting
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie
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Thanks!

Posted by: Mellow Yellow at October 22, 2017 03:25 PM (nBBdT)

107 94 The Wall is one of the best monuments to war dead - it was quite controversial at the time.

But it gets it exactly right. As you walk down the slope the sounds of the city are muffled until it seems silent at the corner.

First time I went (in the 80s) there was a guy there with his son, probably 8-10 years old. He was pointing out the names of his friends.

Posted by: blaster at October 22, 2017 03:20 PM (jHrzU)

-- +1

The Korean War Memorial is not bad, either. Not as austere as The Wall, but really cool-looking at night.

Posted by: logprof cranking up Henry's Dress at October 22, 2017 03:25 PM (GsAUU)

108 You're just trying to goad me into sending you a bag of dicks for free. Not gonna happen.

lol
I'm doing early Christmas shopping.
You need to dress them up like the guys from the band "Men at Work" (YMCA) if you send them. And maybe Santa. Don't forget the googly eyes.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 03:27 PM (Axa8z)

109 Something from the book thread, but for all:

Barbara Frietchie -- by John Greenleaf Whittier

Honor to her! and let a tear
Fall, for her sake, on Stonewalls' bier.

Maybe why flags are so important.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 22, 2017 03:29 PM (MIKMs)

110 The Confederate bill talk rang a bell so I checked the box of coins, etc. left to the Merewife by her dad.

Yep, there's a Confederate $10 bill in there.

Posted by: Meremortal, with hand over heart at October 22, 2017 03:29 PM (3myMJ)

111 There is a really cool vid of Season with Haxon movie

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 03:30 PM (PUmDY)

112 You need to dress them up like the guys from the band "Men at Work" (YMCA) if you send them. And maybe Santa. Don't forget the googly eyes.
Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 03:27 PM (Axa8z)

YMCA was the Village People.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 03:30 PM (NWiLs)

113
Confederate memorabilia is one of the most counterfeited that exist. I remember reading an article to that effect, there are clandestine industries dedicated to making fake items.

This occurs to the extent that collectors refuse to buy.

Posted by: irongrampa at October 22, 2017 03:30 PM (S/hVx)

114 Well back to writing, well editing since I am trying to get something I already wrote cleaned up for the current Amazon contest.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at October 22, 2017 03:32 PM (qZSgP)

115 Maybe why flags are so important.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 22, 2017 03:29 PM (MIKMs)

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=369689

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 22, 2017 03:32 PM (wYseH)

116 Which renders the phrase: "Not worth a Confederate" meaningless these days.

Not necessarily. On Antiques Road Show...def. worth money. At your local Walgreens, not gonna get ya anything unless you have a really smart clerk. (post 8

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 03:32 PM (Axa8z)

117 This occurs to the extent that collectors refuse to buy.
Posted by: irongrampa
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Absolutely. That is why I emphasized 'genuine'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 22, 2017 03:33 PM (nBBdT)

118 I remember a Scooby-do episode that dealt with treasure and in the end, it was worthless confederate bills. I also believe an episode of Beverly Hill-billies had a reference to fake stuff.

Posted by: auscolpyr at October 22, 2017 03:33 PM (pzA2L)

119 Confederate memorabilia is one of the most counterfeited that exist. I remember reading an article to that effect, there are clandestine industries dedicated to making fake items.

This occurs to the extent that collectors refuse to buy.
Posted by: irongrampa at October 22, 2017 03:30 PM (S/hVx)

--Yup, one of the things I learnt from Pawn Stars.

Posted by: logprof cranking up Henry's Dress at October 22, 2017 03:37 PM (GsAUU)

120 YMCA was the Village People.

Bwahahahaha hahahaha

Potato, Potatoe

My brain was worn out from the $10 bill post. I can't get more than one thing right. Damn, I should have checked & not guessed. I'm all over the place. I did a smilie in another post and don't know how. Was supposed to be an 8.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 03:37 PM (Axa8z)

121 @72 Tinfoilbaby

I went through boot camp in 87' and we had a Nam vet go through with us. I noticed some of the DIs, who were also vets, would ask him to report down to the DI Office and shoot the shit with him. Still remember his name.

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at October 22, 2017 03:38 PM (lyjma)

122 Honor to her! and let a tear
Fall, for her sake, on Stonewalls' bier.
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http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=369689 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 22, 2017 03:32 PM (wYseH)

=====

Thank you, CBD. Of course, you knew this and quoted in full.

My patience for the flag 'protests' is nil. As always, AoS at the forefront.

Thank you, again.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 22, 2017 03:39 PM (MIKMs)

123 Thank you, again.

Posted by: mustbequantum at October 22, 2017 03:39 PM (MIKMs)

Thanks for reminding me of a wonderful poem!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 22, 2017 03:40 PM (wYseH)

124 During the Civil War there was a counterfeiter of Confederate notes - he was caught because his counterfeits looked better than the real notes!

Posted by: josephistan at October 22, 2017 03:41 PM (ANIFC)

125 Grandma got me into coin collecting when I was 5, I sold my collection when I graduated from high school. The top two coins that brought the most money were an 1863 silver 3 cent piece, and a 1909svbd penny

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 22, 2017 03:44 PM (d4O0p)

126 My brain was worn out from the $10 bill post. I can't get more than one thing right. Damn, I should have checked & not guessed. I'm all over the place. I did a smilie in another post and don't know how. Was supposed to be an 8.
Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 03:37 PM (Axa8z)

You mean this:

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 03:45 PM (NWiLs)

127 An 8 and a ) right next to each other give you

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 03:45 PM (NWiLs)

128 Down by the Sea is one of my favorite songs of all time

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 03:46 PM (PUmDY)

129 I liked Men at Work. They had a lot of fun stuff, but also some contemplative and even melancholy stuff.

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 03:47 PM (NWiLs)

130

Posted by: ALH at October 22, 2017 03:48 PM (tNY18)

131 127 An 8 and a ) right next to each other give you .
Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 03:45 PM (NWiLs)

I did not know that. Obviously. Filing in brain; hope it does not get lost.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 03:49 PM (Axa8z)

132 During the Civil War there was a counterfeiter of Confederate notes - he was caught because his counterfeits looked better than the real notes!

I believe it. Jeffy was running his own American Weimar before the actual Weimar. His currency was for sh!t.

Which is one reason why rednecks fly Lee's flag and not Jeffy's.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 22, 2017 03:49 PM (5bz7Q)

133

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 03:50 PM (Axa8z)

134 The grave the young men are sitting around is St. Thomas Spitzer, 23 years old.
Here's the obit.
http://tinyurl.com/y96lj2d9
Makes me cry reading it. And thankful that there are still young men and women willing to serve.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at October 22, 2017 03:50 PM (N3JsI)

135 Sometimes it's unintentional.

130
Posted by: ALH at October 22, 2017 03:48 PM (tNY1

Posted by: Insomniac - Getting Microaggressed on the Daily, Yo! at October 22, 2017 03:51 PM (NWiLs)

136 135 Sometimes it's not.

Posted by: ALH at October 22, 2017 03:53 PM (tNY18)

137 Gen. Kellys remarks will be be lost on hard left Dems like hat lady and their ignorant voters, who are mostly unaware of them. However I listened to the press conference and it did seem to make an impression on the pig-ignorant rabid MSM reporters there. They seemed like they were actually learning something and maybe even feeling a little ashamed for giving hat-lady any credence. Of course they all returned to their offices and proceeded with their #Resistance but maybe, just maybe a few seeds of doubt were planted in their reptilian brains that could germinate and someday allow interest in the world around them outside their liberal bubble.

Posted by: Ripley at October 22, 2017 03:55 PM (MxEKc)

138 I remember a Scooby-do episode that dealt with treasure and in the end, it was worthless confederate bills.

Posted by: auscolpyr at October 22, 2017 03:33 PM (

Scooby-do posts must be singled out and recognized for their educational value. Also, I love Scooby-do.

Posted by: Professor Chaos aka Gumdrop Gorilla at October 22, 2017 03:55 PM (Axa8z)

139 (BOO)

Posted by: ALH at October 22, 2017 03:57 PM (tNY18)

140 If you ever find yourself in Madison, Ga you should visit the city cemetery. Madison was the only town on Sherman's march to the sea that the Union army didn't burn so there are lots of antebellum homes there.

The railroad ran through the cemetery and there's a section right next to the tracks with marked and unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers. Some have markers with name and rank, others say unknown Union, unknown Confederate and even unknown Colored soldiers.

It is a remarkable little corner of an otherwise unremarkable cemetery.

Posted by: weirdflunky at October 22, 2017 03:57 PM (ai+tA)

141 49- Dad was stationed at Albany til 73. We lived in Key West until 78 when he got orders to Glakes. Lived just over the border in Kenosha ( dontcha know) until 81. He retired out of Saufley Field in Pensacola in 85 or 86.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 22, 2017 03:57 PM (sqpGi)

142 FYI: i blew up the pic, and the gravestone in front is for the wife of a veteran.

Posted by: redc1c4 at October 22, 2017 03:58 PM (pbYL9)

143 Style guide:

It's Scooby-doo, not Scooby-do.

Posted by: logprof cranking up Henry's Dress at October 22, 2017 03:58 PM (GsAUU)

144 22 Was at an event yesterday and an ex-Ranger was talking about jumping out of airplanes while they flew 55 feet above the ground.

How do you do that?

Posted by: Meremortal, with hand over heart

You don't. 550 ft I'd believe. I believe some jumped into Grenada at 500 ft. Normal is 1000-1200 ft. IIRC, first pass took anti-aircraft fire, so subsequent passes flew lower. Some guns were on high ground and they flew in blow them.

You get on the ground very quickly jumping at that altitude.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at October 22, 2017 03:58 PM (di1hb)

145 A simple "Thank you" isn't enough is it?

$400,000 for a 'speech' will do.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at October 22, 2017 03:58 PM (pszv/)

146 I am going to quit saying best ever, but Down by the Sea is very good

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 04:00 PM (PUmDY)

147 It occurred to me today, as I was pondering why individual leftists like Frederica keep launching Kamikaze attacks against Trump, that this part of Trump's Presidency is much like the last 1/3 of Jeremiah Johnson. Jeremiah is in his feud with the Crow, and the Crow send warriors after him constantly, trying to kill him. They come at day, at night, in the rain, in the snow - they hate him and have sworn to destroy him. Of course Jeremiah kills all comers, and the film barely suggests how many he has to kill, in their ones and twos and threes. And these fights aren't glorious - they are dirty and vicious and brutal, each time.

Finally, the Crow develop a grudging respect for him, but only AFTER he has killed a large number of their best warriors in hand to hand combat.

The Left's large attempts to bring Trump down have all failed, one by one, and now they are realizing that even the Russia gambit is failing. They can't live with that, and so one by one their loyal footsoldiers, like Frederica, are declaring Jihad and throwing themselves against him, only to be shot down and discredited forever within days, each time. It will go on for a long time, just as it did for Jeremiah.

One of my favorite lines in the movie is towards the end, where Jeremiah meets up with Will Geer again, who sheltered him when he was a tenderfoot trapper, and Will, who knows what has been happening, quietly asks him "Were it worth the trouble?"

And Jeremiah simply answers, "What trouble?"

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2017 04:02 PM (k1TUh)

148 Ruh Roh is funny

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at October 22, 2017 04:04 PM (PUmDY)

149 They promised to build a veterans cemetery here in Irvine with donated land from the great park project, now they are hemming and hawing about moving it to what I would suppose is less valuable land. It is California so...

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 22, 2017 04:04 PM (d4O0p)

150 Food

Nood

Dood

Posted by: weirdflunky at October 22, 2017 04:05 PM (ai+tA)

151 During our first Dress Greens inspection we were in
awe of his Awards on his chest, he had a Medal of Honor. Can you imagine
making someone like that take Basic again?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 22, 2017 03:00 PM (d4O0p)
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of course. it's policy.

we have to make sure he is fit to be a Soldier.

Posted by: REMFs Everywhere at October 22, 2017 04:06 PM (pbYL9)

152 Oh, I forgot to mention that the great park project is mostly the old El Toro Marine Base.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at October 22, 2017 04:08 PM (d4O0p)

153 I know how we could honor the memory of our fallen and wounded servicemen while simultaneously protecting the lives and limbs of the men and women who currently serve.

I was just watching Retired General Jack Keane on Fox News endlessly fulminating once again about our need to expand our military operations in whichever Middle Eastern shithole has got his knickers in a twist this week. And of course the anchor was eagerly agreeing with every word.
Not one question about what any of this has ever gotten us
or for how many more years, how many more decades, we will be fed the same tired lies, useless bromides and stale jingoism.

Trump said we were gonna MAGA. Terminate endless useless wars and rein in American imperialism.
One of the main reasons I voted for him.
The he started lobbing cruise missiles at Syria because his daughter saw some pictures that made her sad. Now we have four of our finest, the future of our country, dead in Niger. It's almost as if Trump made promises he isn't keeping.

Honor the fallen and protect the living by starting the long process of extricating ourselves from the middle eastern quicksand.

Posted by: Major1 at October 22, 2017 04:09 PM (UjIiY)

154 >>>FYI: i blew up the pic, and the gravestone in front is for the wife of a veteran.

It also is not Arlington. It is Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy - Bunch Em If You Got Em at October 22, 2017 04:15 PM (RrhD2)

155 "138 I remember a Scooby-do episode that dealt with treasure and in the end, it was worthless confederate bills.
Posted by: auscolpyr at October 22, 2017 03:33 PM "

Best TRUE story about Confederate money is from the last 2 weeks of the Civil War, after Lee had pulled out of Petersburg and attempted to retreat with the Army of N. Va. to join up with Gen'l Joseph E. Johnston in N. Ca. (of course Lee was cornered at Appomattox)

As Richmond was abandoned, the Confederates loaded up what remained of their treasury into boxcars and sent it out on the last rail line they still controlled. There was no gold left, that was all a myth, as it had been spent years before - nothing but boxcars full of paper money. Pursuing Federal Cavalry soon caught up to and cut off the treasury train, and the soldiers later reported that there was absolutely no discipline as they looted it - the Officers by this point were all sick of the war, and of having fought a siege for 10 long months, and they were ready to let the men do whatever they wanted. Every member of that cavalry unit stuffed his shirt and his pants and his rucksack full of however many tens of thousands of confederate money that they could grab - and then it was reported that for the next few nights, all of the men were up all night, playing blackjack and poker for a million dollars a hand, all with the Confederate's treasury. As soldiers will do, these games were well lubricated by barrels of whiskey that they had gotten hold of.

It became an issue some days later when Grant ordered them to move to cut off one of Lee's remaining Cavalry units, and the entire unit was totally worthless because no one had slept in at least 3 nights, due to all of the partying with their million dollar confederate bankrolls.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 22, 2017 04:17 PM (k1TUh)

156 And an insane congresscritter is now DEMANDING an apology, from a Retired General, who is the on the President's Staff...

Uh... no...

Posted by: Don Q. at October 22, 2017 04:17 PM (NgKpN)

157 I notice President Trump called the congresscrappling from FL "wacky" and the congresscrappling now has hurt feelings or some such.

I commend the President for his restraint because "wacky" isn't exactly the term I'd use.

Though, "wacky" as a descriptive is a good way to start marginalizing that blithering idiot of a failed rodeo clown.

Posted by: Blake at October 22, 2017 04:18 PM (WEBkv)

158 Though, "wacky" as a descriptive is a good way to start marginalizing that blithering idiot of a failed rodeo clown.
Posted by: Blake at October 22, 2017 04:18 PM (WEBkv)

--The word "hysteria" was not a complete contrivance.

Posted by: logprof cranking up Henry's Dress at October 22, 2017 04:21 PM (GsAUU)

159 Trump Defeats ISIS In Months - After Years Of Excuses From Obama

http://www.investors.com/ politics/editorials/
raqqa-victory-means-trump-defeated-isis-
in-months-
after-years-of-excuses-from-obama/

Posted by: gNewt at October 22, 2017 04:23 PM (49IcX)

160 MisHum,
Please check your iphone messages and imessages & work email because Tim forwarded something to you from me. I think it was misunderstood.

Posted by: Carol at October 22, 2017 04:24 PM (NKOy9)

161 141 49- Dad was stationed at Albany til 73

What squadron? My dad was RVAH-14.

When they transferred to Key West, our family stayed in Albany while dad went there until he retired

Posted by: PMRich at October 22, 2017 04:25 PM (w5Qj0)

162 Hurricane Harvey keeps a'blowin':

38 accuse writer/director James Toback of sexual harassment

http://preview.tinyurl.com/y7d5am9d

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at October 22, 2017 04:25 PM (oVJmc)

163 On another hand, the Russians of all people say that the destruction of Raqqa from air attacks is like Dresden. The Russians are disconsolate over this inhumanity of man unto man.

I would encourage them to take pictures and share them with their friends.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 22, 2017 04:31 PM (H5rtT)

164 48
I watched Taking Chance this morning.

General Kelly references it in his speech. I cried during the General's speech, and I bawled throughout that movie.

Many heartfelt thanks to those who have served, and those families who have lost loved ones while serving.
Posted by: squeakywheel at October 22, 2017 02:48 PM (jQqG/)
***********************

John Kelly was in the convoy, in the firefight in which Chance Phelps was killed.
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2009/02/chance-phelps-l.html

Posted by: A Lurker at October 22, 2017 04:35 PM (3g9Il)

165 Kelly asked, "is there nothing sacred?" Barbarians at the gate answer, "no." Fight or flee people.

Posted by: rammajamma at October 22, 2017 04:38 PM (oAlzZ)

166 The Soviets at ARGONAUT requested RAF Bomber Command and USAAF 8th Air Force to attack Dresden as it helped the Soviet advance.

RVAH-14? RA-5C Vigilantes. Now part of the Albany air base is a beer distillery.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at October 22, 2017 04:38 PM (qZSgP)

167 And is that a trool dropping from an Isolationist?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at October 22, 2017 04:40 PM (qZSgP)

168 re Toback - aww man, I liked "Two Girls and a Guy". It was also a tough call to hire Robert Downey Jr. in those days.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 22, 2017 04:41 PM (5bz7Q)

169 although "When Will I Be Loved" (2004) seems creepy. glad I missed that. Notice, last non-documentary credit until "The Private Life of a Modern Woman" this year

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 22, 2017 04:44 PM (5bz7Q)

170 --The word "hysteria" was not a complete contrivance.
Posted by: logprof cranking up Henry's Dress at October 22, 2017 04:21 PM (GsAUU)

If you read the article, it's on msn.com, don't care to link to it, that piece of filth is going on and on about the "lack of information" blah blah blah.

Just as someone else mentioned. And as was pointed out, that idiot needs to have Benghazi shoved down her throat.

Posted by: Blake at October 22, 2017 04:44 PM (WEBkv)

171 Now part of the Albany air base is a beer distillery.

I grew up less than a mile from the main gate for that base.

There was a bar built in the old base package store called NABS. Everybody in town thought it meant Naval Air Base Society.

It was actually the nickname of the owner Who retired there also

Posted by: PMRich at October 22, 2017 04:46 PM (w5Qj0)

172 Posted by: PMRich at October 22, 2017 04:46 PM (w5Qj0)

Oh hell no! Are there any morons other than me in the Albany area? Obviously you know about Albany if you know about Nabs tavern.

If you're no longer in the area, oh well.

If you'd rather not say, I understand that too.

Posted by: weirdflunky at October 22, 2017 04:51 PM (ai+tA)

173 I left Albany back in '94.

Now I'm in Cincinnati area

Posted by: PMRich at October 22, 2017 05:06 PM (w5Qj0)

174 And you most definitely must be an east sider if you know Nabs

Posted by: PMRich at October 22, 2017 05:08 PM (w5Qj0)

175 And you most definitely must be an east sider if you know Nabs
Posted by: PMRich at October 22, 2017 05:08 PM (w5Qj0)

I used to work with a guy whose Mom was the manager of Nabs but this was after the "Nike base" had closed and Miller was brewing beer there. Not an eastsider just knew about the place.

You left in 94. Did you leave before or after the flood?

Posted by: weirdflunky at October 22, 2017 05:18 PM (ai+tA)

176 I love this post and I love the picture of those wonderful, manly men, whose mission was to make the world a safer place, and who were there to honor their fallen comrades. And not a man bun or a pair of skinny jeans to be seen.

Posted by: Lynne at October 22, 2017 05:58 PM (FYZjd)

177 If only a little higher percentage of our population actually believed that the "finest men and women on this Earth" were laid to rest there, then we would have fewer problems. However, they think that some shit that some long-dead people did should trump (no pun intended) all of the opportunities and goodness that have been presented and occurred and paid for by those very same "finest" people. I see no way out other than blood and death and suffering. We have to win.

Posted by: goon at October 22, 2017 06:01 PM (EaQ6/)

178 A friend lost his only son in Niger. Just give my love and support and not any shit about politics. Not that hard to be human, is it?

Posted by: Joe Mack at October 22, 2017 06:04 PM (rdlzy)

179 I left just shortly before the flood.

Anybody that worked at Nabs would know my family, we were regulars since Frank and my dad were old navy buds

Posted by: PMRich at October 22, 2017 06:32 PM (w5Qj0)

180 Posted by: PMRich at October 22, 2017 06:32 PM (w5Qj0)

A small world as they say. We only missed crossing paths by 13 years, give or take.

I moved to SOWEGA in 1993 because long story. (Like everybody's story)

Posted by: weirdflunky at October 22, 2017 06:55 PM (ai+tA)

181 I try to stop at Arlington whenever I have a spare couple of hours before making a flight from DCA or IAD. My first visit there was in high school on one of those whirlwind trips they have students do sometimes - left a lasting impression. Never got there while I was active duty though, but since then have had several trips to DC.

Seriously though, if you are flying from DCA especially, leave a little extra time on your return trip to make a stop on your way to the airport.

Posted by: Mark at October 22, 2017 07:03 PM (Tug2p)

182 Test

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