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It's amazing the folks who knock on Danica. She did have some success in her sport. If you remember Anna Kournikova, she was the darling of the tennis scene for years. She NEVER won a title. Not 1 in her entire career. But she was easy on the yes and she made millions from her looks. Danica hasn't made nowhere near the money that comes close to Kournikova levels.
Same in the southeast when I was a kid. Supposedly the thunder though was the person screaming!
That always reminds me of when I used to play Texas Hold ‘em a lot with friends on the weekend. Whenever you were dealt Ace / King we called them an “Anna Kournikova” (get it.....AK) because it looked awesome, but never won.
1J pours his coffee out of where I put the creamer?!1J pouring his coffee??
That’s an alligator snapping turtle, the Tulsa zoo has one that size and they guesstimate that it is 125 years old and weighs around 125 pounds.
Kournikova made $3.5M playing tennis and another $10M in endorsements. Danica Patrick made well over $20M from driving NASCAR, XFINITY and Indy, and just last year another $7.2M from endorsements.
When I was a kid I saw a smaller snapper bite my mom's thumb after she cut it's head off.
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I'm saying she looks better here than she ever did on the race track
SEMPER FI BROTHERS! Those of is who know will never forget your sacrifice!
Rick
Rick
Last month, at a rifle match, I was squadded with 2 other Texans, 6 Louisianans, and one from Mississippi. Didn't know them from Adam, when we started. We had an absolute blast! I figured out we were very much cut from the same cloth.
Bloody but forgotten WWII battle still haunts soldiers
MARK THIESSEN and MARI YAMAGUCHI,Associated Press•May 28, 2018
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — William Roy Dover's memory of the World War II battle is as sharp as it was 75 years ago, even though it's been long forgotten by most everyone else.
His first sergeant rousted him from his pup tent around 2 a.m. when word came the Japanese were attacking and had maybe even gotten behind the American front line, on a desolate, unforgiving slab of an occupied island in the North Pacific.
"He was shouting, 'Get up! Get out!'" Dover said.
Dover and most of the American soldiers rushed to an embankment on what became known as Engineer Hill, the last gasp of the Japanese during the Battle of Attu , fought 75 years ago this month on Attu Island in Alaska's Aleutian chain.
"I had two friends that were too slow to get out," the 95-year-old Alabama farmer recalled. "They both got bayonetted in their pup tents."
Joseph Sasser, then a skinny 20-year-old from Cartharge, Mississippi, also found himself perched against the berm on Engineer Hill when a captain with a rifle took up a position about 10 feet (3 meters) away.
"I noticed about after 30 minutes or so, he was awfully quiet," Sasser said. "We checked to see if he had a pulse and if he was alive, and he was not.
"We didn't even know he had been shot," said Sasser, also 95.
American forces reclaimed remote Attu Island on May 30, 1943, after a 19-day campaign that is known as World War II's forgotten battle. Much of the fighting was hand-to-hand, waged in dense fog and winds of up to 120 mph (193 kph).
The battle for the Aleutian island was one of the deadliest in the Pacific in terms of the percentage of troops killed. Nearly all the Japanese forces, estimated at about 2,500 soldiers, died with only 28 survivors. About 550 or so U.S. soldiers were killed.
American forces, many poorly outfitted for Alaska weather and trained in California for desert combat, recaptured Attu 11 months after the Japanese took it and a nearby island, Kiska. It was the only WWII battle fought on North American soil.
The Japanese staged a last-ditch, desperate offensive May 29 at Engineer Hill.
"Japanese soldiers surprise American forces on Attu with a fanatical charge out of the mountains," recounts an Associated Press chronology of WWII events in 1943. "Savage fighting rages throughout the day and into the following night.
About 200 Japanese soldiers died in the assault, and the remaining 500 or so held grenades to their bellies and pulled the pins. It was the first official case of "gyokusai," a Japanese euphemism for annihilation or mass suicide in the name of Emperor Hirohito, which increasingly occurred in other Japanese battlefields.
Tomimatsu Takahashi told Japanese public television network NHK in 2010 he was being treated for a bullet wound when the order for the final charge came. "I was going to die, I thought," he said.
But as he headed out to fight, he collapsed, likely because he hadn't eaten in days. He was captured and sent to several mainland POW camps — including in Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago — before he returned home to Japan's Iwate prefecture in 1947.
His family already had a funeral and grave for him.
"I felt so relieved to be home," he said. "But I never thought I was lucky to be alive. I thought I survived because I was not lucky. I felt I was not supposed to come back, because those who went to war were not supposed to come back, and that's what we were taught."
After the battle, Dover said things went back to normal for the American soldiers — except one thing: "Somebody had to bury those Japanese."
During the war, the U.S. Army buried the Japanese soldiers' bodies with care, built a memorial, set up a grave post and paid respects to the spirits, said Nobuyuki Yamazaki, whose grandfather died on Attu.
Yamazaki was among a delegation of Japanese soldiers' descendants who attended a 75th anniversary celebration this month in Anchorage. The families have formally petitioned the Japanese government to have the remains returned, Anchorage television station KTVA reported.
"Japanese people find great comfort when the remains of the Japanese are buried in our homeland," Yamazaki said.
The Aleut people living on Attu Island also suffered losses, becoming the only North American community to be imprisoned in Japan during the war, according to the book "Attu: The Forgotten Battle," by John Haile Cloe.
While Kiska was unpopulated, about 45 Aleuts lived on Attu Island. When Japanese forces invaded, the Aleuts were captured and sent to Japan's Hokkaido Island, where about half died, most from malnutrition or starvation.
The survivors never returned to Attu. The Army said it would be too expensive to rebuild their village, and they were relocated after the war.
The battle over Attu proved to be unimportant to the rest of the war, possibly why it's forgotten today. However, American planes did use the island to bomb the northernmost reaches of Japan. And author and historian Cloe, who died in 2016, told the AP in 1993 that the Army learned much about amphibious landings and Japanese tactics from the battle.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now owns Attu Island, which is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
Seventy-five years later, 102-year-old Allan Seroll of Massachusetts, who worked in communications including Morse code for the Army Signal Corps, still carries the burden of the Battle of Attu.
"I wake up in the middle of the night, and I can't go back to sleep," Seroll told KTVA. "That's what this has done to me. That's how much it affected me and still does."
MARK THIESSEN and MARI YAMAGUCHI,Associated Press•May 28, 2018
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — William Roy Dover's memory of the World War II battle is as sharp as it was 75 years ago, even though it's been long forgotten by most everyone else.
His first sergeant rousted him from his pup tent around 2 a.m. when word came the Japanese were attacking and had maybe even gotten behind the American front line, on a desolate, unforgiving slab of an occupied island in the North Pacific.
"He was shouting, 'Get up! Get out!'" Dover said.
Dover and most of the American soldiers rushed to an embankment on what became known as Engineer Hill, the last gasp of the Japanese during the Battle of Attu , fought 75 years ago this month on Attu Island in Alaska's Aleutian chain.
"I had two friends that were too slow to get out," the 95-year-old Alabama farmer recalled. "They both got bayonetted in their pup tents."
Joseph Sasser, then a skinny 20-year-old from Cartharge, Mississippi, also found himself perched against the berm on Engineer Hill when a captain with a rifle took up a position about 10 feet (3 meters) away.
"I noticed about after 30 minutes or so, he was awfully quiet," Sasser said. "We checked to see if he had a pulse and if he was alive, and he was not.
"We didn't even know he had been shot," said Sasser, also 95.
American forces reclaimed remote Attu Island on May 30, 1943, after a 19-day campaign that is known as World War II's forgotten battle. Much of the fighting was hand-to-hand, waged in dense fog and winds of up to 120 mph (193 kph).
The battle for the Aleutian island was one of the deadliest in the Pacific in terms of the percentage of troops killed. Nearly all the Japanese forces, estimated at about 2,500 soldiers, died with only 28 survivors. About 550 or so U.S. soldiers were killed.
American forces, many poorly outfitted for Alaska weather and trained in California for desert combat, recaptured Attu 11 months after the Japanese took it and a nearby island, Kiska. It was the only WWII battle fought on North American soil.
The Japanese staged a last-ditch, desperate offensive May 29 at Engineer Hill.
"Japanese soldiers surprise American forces on Attu with a fanatical charge out of the mountains," recounts an Associated Press chronology of WWII events in 1943. "Savage fighting rages throughout the day and into the following night.
About 200 Japanese soldiers died in the assault, and the remaining 500 or so held grenades to their bellies and pulled the pins. It was the first official case of "gyokusai," a Japanese euphemism for annihilation or mass suicide in the name of Emperor Hirohito, which increasingly occurred in other Japanese battlefields.
Tomimatsu Takahashi told Japanese public television network NHK in 2010 he was being treated for a bullet wound when the order for the final charge came. "I was going to die, I thought," he said.
But as he headed out to fight, he collapsed, likely because he hadn't eaten in days. He was captured and sent to several mainland POW camps — including in Seattle, San Francisco and Chicago — before he returned home to Japan's Iwate prefecture in 1947.
His family already had a funeral and grave for him.
"I felt so relieved to be home," he said. "But I never thought I was lucky to be alive. I thought I survived because I was not lucky. I felt I was not supposed to come back, because those who went to war were not supposed to come back, and that's what we were taught."
After the battle, Dover said things went back to normal for the American soldiers — except one thing: "Somebody had to bury those Japanese."
During the war, the U.S. Army buried the Japanese soldiers' bodies with care, built a memorial, set up a grave post and paid respects to the spirits, said Nobuyuki Yamazaki, whose grandfather died on Attu.
Yamazaki was among a delegation of Japanese soldiers' descendants who attended a 75th anniversary celebration this month in Anchorage. The families have formally petitioned the Japanese government to have the remains returned, Anchorage television station KTVA reported.
"Japanese people find great comfort when the remains of the Japanese are buried in our homeland," Yamazaki said.
The Aleut people living on Attu Island also suffered losses, becoming the only North American community to be imprisoned in Japan during the war, according to the book "Attu: The Forgotten Battle," by John Haile Cloe.
While Kiska was unpopulated, about 45 Aleuts lived on Attu Island. When Japanese forces invaded, the Aleuts were captured and sent to Japan's Hokkaido Island, where about half died, most from malnutrition or starvation.
The survivors never returned to Attu. The Army said it would be too expensive to rebuild their village, and they were relocated after the war.
The battle over Attu proved to be unimportant to the rest of the war, possibly why it's forgotten today. However, American planes did use the island to bomb the northernmost reaches of Japan. And author and historian Cloe, who died in 2016, told the AP in 1993 that the Army learned much about amphibious landings and Japanese tactics from the battle.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service now owns Attu Island, which is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.
Seventy-five years later, 102-year-old Allan Seroll of Massachusetts, who worked in communications including Morse code for the Army Signal Corps, still carries the burden of the Battle of Attu.
"I wake up in the middle of the night, and I can't go back to sleep," Seroll told KTVA. "That's what this has done to me. That's how much it affected me and still does."
Poured rain here and could not do mowing or planting... that's today. So I was motivated to finish this little project... well, almost finish.
Cheers,
Sirhr
I hate to be a dick, but as political as all the non-valor, meritorious medals and ribbons are; the valor awards are just as political, and who puts it in/who witnessed it are even more important.
I don’t believe valor medals get awarded for no reason, but I know for a fact that guys do all sorts of crazy brave and selfless things that are never even reported, much less out in for a commendation. Every recipient wears it for a thousand guys who were never recognized.
I don’t believe valor medals get awarded for no reason, but I know for a fact that guys do all sorts of crazy brave and selfless things that are never even reported, much less out in for a commendation. Every recipient wears it for a thousand guys who were never recognized.
It's so sad that those millennials don't have a clue about our countries history. And that those few African Americans interviewed don't know why the Civil War was fought, yet they probably marched for BLM.
Shut up, Fudge Packer.
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Why yes.......but his behavior as of late can only be described as "quirky"............The whole "dogs and cats" thing has me "concerned"
Since then, there's been this;
"Because they're incapable of saying 'no' and by RCW it's not Beastiality if it's your Pet "
I just don't know what to think anymore. Although, didn't he recently mention that a "Furnian" just moved in next door ? Co-incidence ?
Why yes.......but his behavior as of late can only be described as "quirky"............The whole "dogs and cats" thing has me "concerned"
Since then, there's been this;
"Because they're incapable of saying 'no' and by RCW it's not Beastiality if it's your Pet "
I just don't know what to think anymore. Although, didn't he recently mention that a "Furnian" just moved in next door ? Co-incidence ?
Ahhhhh "Funian's". Sounds soft n cuddly don't they? Hmmmm
I think it's just a stage. If it continues I'll get a check up........
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Ahhhhh "Funian's". Sounds soft n cuddly don't they? Hmmmm
I think it's just a stage. It it continues I'll get a check up........
Stay on your meds and listen to your doctor (unless he's in on the gig.....). BTW, how's your shoulder ?
I once had a snapper nearly take two fingers off.
Thankfully she relaxed her muscles...
Thankfully she relaxed her muscles...
I think most of the men who have been awarded a Medal of Honor or a Victoria Cross would probably agree with you 100 percent. What they did was not for medals, but for their comrades... At a time when all the chips were on the table.
Most say they wear it for those who don't... Or can't...but who earned it as well.
The humility among those in the rarified community of those who earned the highest recognition for valor... Is awe-inspiring.
So you are not, IMHO being a dick. I think you would find your sentiment shared by a lot of warriors.
Sirhr
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This is an interesting documentary about a NZ SAS trooper... who went above and beyond.
I think it says a lot about what happens to a soldier when, all of a sudden, they are the recipient of attention that they may not necessarily want.
Sirhr
I think it says a lot about what happens to a soldier when, all of a sudden, they are the recipient of attention that they may not necessarily want.
Sirhr
Wasn't WaB's supposed to be on Memorial Day ?.........
(Lifted from comments section @ Breitbart. Too good to pass up.)
(Lifted from comments section @ Breitbart. Too good to pass up.)
I'm with you, Pimp Daddy... just because you can doesn't mean you should!!!!
But, hey, someone needs to make the occasionally non-threatening AR without a Hello Kiitty theme. So there ya go!
Cheers,
Sirhr
Ok, if you say so.
The ole shoulder is doing fairly well thank you. Got into a little tussle bout a week or so ago and the tip of the shoulder and the collarbone/plate took a hit. Was sore as fuck for a few days but it's doing fairly well I think. The whack to the collarbone literally watered my eyes. The guy is still here. He apologized the next day after cooling off.
Remembering my friend and mentor John G Gertsch. Tiger Force, 1/327, 101st Airborne Div, 1968/69. A Shau Valley. The top photo was taken immediately after a hurricane let up enough to allow us out of our hasty positions. We were deep in the forests west of Veghel, on the eastern slopes of the A shau. The group photo was earlier when we were closer to Veghel, in forest that had been badly defoliated. John was awarded the MOH posthumously, for actions in 1969.
Guy with fingers: Dwight Lane, MI, Behind him, TJ McGinley, CO, IN front of Dwight, Roberto Campos, MI, IN front of tree: John G Gertsch, PA, boonie hat, in front of tree: Myself, team medic, Boonie hat and glasses, Lew Legat, WA,
In front, Red Hair: Larry Goethe, Not sure what state, Beret: Jeff Paige, later went to LRRPS, Wink: Woody Riddle, Tiger Tooth and NVA belt: Phil Blevins (Zeke) OK, Beret and jacket: Ray Wynn. Close to camera in glasses, the only guy I have not made contact with, Chris Elledge. All except John made it home. All were decorated, all were double bad-asses, and all were the most humble men you would ever meet.
Guy with fingers: Dwight Lane, MI, Behind him, TJ McGinley, CO, IN front of Dwight, Roberto Campos, MI, IN front of tree: John G Gertsch, PA, boonie hat, in front of tree: Myself, team medic, Boonie hat and glasses, Lew Legat, WA,
In front, Red Hair: Larry Goethe, Not sure what state, Beret: Jeff Paige, later went to LRRPS, Wink: Woody Riddle, Tiger Tooth and NVA belt: Phil Blevins (Zeke) OK, Beret and jacket: Ray Wynn. Close to camera in glasses, the only guy I have not made contact with, Chris Elledge. All except John made it home. All were decorated, all were double bad-asses, and all were the most humble men you would ever meet.
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Ok, if you say so.
The ole shoulder is doing fairly well thank you. Got into a little tussle bout a week or so ago and the tip of the shoulder and the collarbone/plate took a hit. Was sore as fuck for a few days but it's doing fairly well I think. The whack to the collarbone literally watered my eyes. The guy is still here. He apologized the next day after cooling off.
Now (Brown) Cows ?........
Good to hear you're healing. "Glad" the guest apologized.......bet you felt so much better
