12-31-2009, 21:26
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Occupied Pineland
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To those who've gone before - and the rest of us who'll follow after.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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12-31-2009, 21:43
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Undisclosed Safehouse in South Texas
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"To the fallen!"
Land of the Free - Because of the Brave
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12-31-2009, 21:58
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bonum medicina malis locis
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Blue Ridge, GA and Orlando, FL
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For the Fallen and Old Times Past
For the Fallen (Originally published in The Times on 21 September 1914)
(2 selected stanzas)
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
And of course, on this night and Burn's night...
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne!
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne.
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
For Dad and all the fallen...
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12-31-2009, 22:03
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Driving the Texas highways
Posts: 672
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To the fallen...may you be at peace wherever you are.
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01-01-2010, 00:03
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To the fallen.
Last edited by rltipton; 01-01-2010 at 00:06.
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01-01-2010, 00:04
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Area Commander
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Colorado
Posts: 1,205
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To the fallen
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We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
Neville Chamberlain
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01-01-2010, 00:37
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Location: LA
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Amen
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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01-01-2010, 14:08
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: USA
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To the fallen, there far to many.
Rest in peace brothers.
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01-01-2010, 15:04
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Der Vaterland
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Rest in Peace my brothers. You are not forgotten.
Ich hatt' einen Kameraden
von Ludwig Uhland
Ich hatt' einen Kameraden,
Einen bessern findst du nit.
Die Trommel schlug zum Streite,
Er ging an meiner Seite
In gleichem Schritt und Tritt.
Eine Kugel kam geflogen:
Gilt's mir oder gilt es dir?
Ihn hat es weggerissen,
Er liegt vor meinen Füßen
Als wär's ein Stück von mir
Will mir die Hand noch reichen,
Derweil ich eben lad'.
"Kann dir die Hand nicht geben,
Bleib du im ew'gen Leben
Mein guter Kamerad!"
I Had a Comrade
Translation by Frank Petersohn
In battle he was my comrade,
None better I have had.
The drum called us to fight,
He always on my right,
In step, through good and bad.
A bullet it flew towards us,
For him or meant for me?
His life from mine it tore,
At my feet a piece of gore,
As if a part of me.
His hand reached up to hold mine.
I must re-load my gun.
"My friend, I cannot ease your pain,
In life eternal we'll meet again,
And walk once more as one."
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Stras
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De Oppresso Liber
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01-01-2010, 20:43
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: In the Woods
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To the Fallen
SnT
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Die Gedanken sind frei
Democrats would burn down this country as long as they get to rule over the ashes
The FBI’s credibility was murdered by a sniper on Ruby Ridge; its corpse was burned to ashes outside Waco; soiled in a Delaware PC repair shop;. and buried in the basement of Mar-a-Lago..
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01-02-2010, 14:49
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Germany
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The pockets of our great coats full of barley
No kitchens on the run, no striking camp
We moved quickly and sudden in our country.
The priest lay behind the ditches with the tramp
A people hardly marching on the hike
We found new tactics happening every day:
We'd cut through reins and rider with the pike
And stampede cattle into infantry,
Then retreat through hedges where cavalry must be thrown.
Until at Vinegar Hill, the fatal conclave.
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes against cannon.
The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
They buried us without shroud or coffin
But in August the barley grew up out of the grave.
To our blessed fallen comrades!
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Bitka Sve Rešava!
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01-02-2010, 15:25
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Asset
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Bluffton, SC
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If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.
Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam
To the fallen,
John 15:13
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"People think it's an obsession. A compulsion. As if there were an irresistible impulse to act. It's never been like that. I chose this life. I know what I'm doing. And on any given day, I could stop doing it. Today, however, isn't that day. And tomorrow won't be either."
Batman
"Today we have done what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong."
Ronald Regan
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01-02-2010, 15:35
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Arizona
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To the fallen and those serving
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