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Letter from a Father to his 3-year-old son
"The price of ridding society of bad is always high" - Richard Helms
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Miyamoto Musashi
“The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions”
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REASON'S
A man always has two good reasons for doing anything--- a good reason, and the real reason. Special Forces does things for the right reason.
SGM. Richard E. Pegram U S Army Special Forces KIA. 8/23/1968 Vietnam |
Gone but not forgotten...
SGM. Richard E. Pegram U S Army Special Forces KIA. 8/23/1968 Vietnam God Bless,Rest in Peace Warrior...........:( He was just a simple soldier and his ranks are growing thin But his presence should remind us; we may need his like again, For when countries are in conflict, then we find the soldier's part Is to clean up all the troubles that the politicians start. If we cannot do him honor while he's here to hear the praise, Then at least let's give him homage at the ending of his days.........:(. Perhaps just a simple headline in the paper that might say: OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING, FOR A SOLDIER DIED TODAY. (author unknown) The passing of our soldiers often go unnoticed and unsung by most of the world, remembered only by family and friends. Wish it were not so. May he RIP, his family will be in my thoughts and prayers.........:( I realize it's a Canadian song,however I believe most appropriate for this occasion... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrkgV5bl7kQ Big Teddy |
The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you figure out why.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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“America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.” – Ronald Reagan
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The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph
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A man at his best. You are not so born. Strive daily to develop yourself in your person, in your calling, until perfection is attained: the fullness of your every gift, of your every faculty. You will know it in the improvement of your taste, in the clarification of your thinking, in the maturity of your judgement, in the control of your will. Some never attain the perfect, something always being lacking, and others are late in coming to themselves. The man complete, wise in speech, wise in action, is admitted, yea, he is welcomed into that rare fellowship of those who understand.
Baltasar Gracian The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can carry a message to Garcia. Elbert Hubbard, A Message to Garcia |
The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Once more into the fray
Into the last good fight I'll ever know Live and die on this day Live and die on this day From The Grey. Since folks here are fond of FOG slugging it out with grizzly bear, wolves, giant spider :D etc., I highly recommend the flick. The poem would make total sense then |
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson |
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"It is most usually the stupid and ambitious, rather than the virtuous and wise, who seek and try to assume high office." Marsilius of Padua (14th century political philosopher)
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"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."
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"I did wut?" Randy Travis
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Psalms 18:31-36 For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?—the God who equipped me with strength and made my way blameless. He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights. He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. You have given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand supported me, and your gentleness made me great. You gave a wide place for my steps under me, and my feet did not slip.
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I heard this recently in a briefing exercise. I think it is one of the best quotes on mindset I have ever heard.
"Everyone says, Failure is not an option. It's quite the contrary, failure is ALWAYS and ever present option. There is always that chance of failure. FEAR is never an option. If you fear to attempt, then you will never succeed...or fail. Do not let fear paralyze you. Failure is always an option, Fear is not." - Anonymous source |
Whenever a bird s***s on my car, I eat a plate of scrambled eggs out on my front porch just to show the little bastards what I am capable of if they really piss me off.
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"I was surrounded, so I attacked" - Erwin Rommel
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Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity. H.L. Gates
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"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet."-Gen James 'Mad Dog' Mattis
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"Hind sight is 20/20 when your staring at the ass-end of a winning horse" - Lifelong friend of mine
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.” Teddy Roosevelt.
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"Don't believe everything you read on the internet"
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" Hard times don't last, hard people do." Unknown.
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Here's one I use it in my leadership team training days.
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"Learn what you need for your life! Do not walk bowed and hunched, walk upright like free people! Walk with your head held high but never rise above others! Walk with sharp mind and a hot heart! Walk with more joy than the elders were able to walk through their lives with, for you are freer than all who lived before you, on our soil, ever were!"
Georg Leber "Father of soldiers" 7 October 1920 – 21 August 2012 Federal Minister of Defence 1972 - 1978 From his speech held during the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the universities of the German Federal Armed Forces in 1993 |
"And what would you do with a brain, if you had one ? " Dorothy, Wizard of Oz. :D
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" Nothing is more dangerous than and NCO or Officer who has been taught a technique or method, but doesn't understand the underlying principles or the "why" behind it." (MtnGoat, QP)
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"If you like your shovel-ready job, you can keep it."
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"In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, in that very moment I also love him. I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves"
~A.E. Wiggins (Orson Scott Card) The power of empathy.... |
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Outstading post, IMVHO!:lifter Holly |
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