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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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We talk a lot of smack about those in public education and a lot if them dont live up to what I might hope they would be.

And that picture and story above is one of a million of someone who makes a big difference in kids lives.

My daughter had Valentine cards with pictures of puppies and kitties on the front and a short Bible verse on the back.
Her teacher pulled me aside and said that really made her day to have that on a Valentine card and how glad she was that my daughter was growing up in a Christian home.
And she is a great teacher on top of it. Kids love her too.
Public school in Denver!
Kinda feel like we could use her for our GGWG sometime.....
 
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When @sirhrmechanic is tired of my shit.

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MtnCreek said:
All my wire is on posts now. When I was a kid we'd stretch with one hammer and staple with another, into tree if there were any around. Used a softer 12ga wire. I use 14ga gaucho now. Don't let that shit get away when stretching!
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I'll never buy Gaucho. 250' between steel H-braces, 2.5 ton come-a-long, and it ain't tight until it sings in the wind. I've got 7/8 of a mile replaced with 6 strand, 5 foot tall. Have 7/8 of a mile to go.
 
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Garvey said:
I'll never buy Gaucho. 250' between steel H-braces, 2.5 ton come-a-long, and it ain't tight until it sings in the wind. I've got 7/8 of a mile replaced with 6 strand, 5 foot tall. Have 7/8 of a mile to go.
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Why won't you use gaucho? Because horses? Compared to something like red brand the beakhert (spelling?) wire is better coated and a lot stiffer.
 
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MtnCreek said:
Why won't you use gaucho? Because horses? Compared to something like red brand the beakhert (spelling?) wire is better coated and a lot stiffer.
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Because it is weak as a kitten, and cannot tolerate being damn tight. Stretch it in the summer, and in winter, when it is brittle it will just snap. I used to build fence full time, measure them in miles. Don't EVER stretch Gaucho without your pliers in the holster. When it rebounds, and wads up around you, cut your way out of it.
 
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We had two boys that I knew got electrocuted at a marina here a couple years ago. They were swimming by their house boat. There was an electrical short from some shoddy work on the dock. A couple adults were also hurt trying to get them out.
 
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You wouldn't know it to look at him, but the little old man in the center of this photo was one of the toughest Jarheads ever.

In 1942 when he was only 14, Jacklyn "Jack" Lucas enlisted in the Marine Corps after convincing the recruiter he was 17.

Posted to a depot unit at Pearl Harbor, Jack was bored and wanted action, so in January of 1945, he rolled up a combat uniform under his arm, sneaked out of camp, and stowed away aboard a Naval Transport that was taking 1st Battalion, 26th Marines, 5th Marine Division to Iwo Jima.

Not knowing what to do with him, the Marine battalion commander busted Jack one rank, then assigned him as rifleman to C Company. A few days later, Jack turned 17.

The day after landing on Iwo Jima, Jack dove on top of one Japanese grenade then pulled another beneath him. The blast ripped through his body, but saved his comrades.

It took 21 surgeries to save him, and for the rest of his life carried in his body more than 200 large pieces of shrapnel.

On October 5th, 1945, Jack Lucas received the Medal of Honor from President Harry Truman in a ceremony on the White House lawn. He is the youngest Marine ever to receive the nation's highest honor.

He then returned to high school.... as a freshman.

After college, Jack entered the Army as a Captain in the 82nd Airborne, and survived a training jump in which neither his main chute nor his reserve chute opened.

Two years before he died in 2008, Jack was honored by the Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Michael W. Hagee, who presented him with a Medal of Honor ceremonial flag at the Marine Barracks in Washington, D.C.

It was during that ceremony that this photo was taken.

Semper Fidelis.
 
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