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Post by Boge Quinn on Nov 10, 2010 10:16:47 GMT -5
...here's a nice tribute from the folks at GoDaddy.com: www.godaddy.com/holiday/usmc/usmc-2010.aspx?isc=gda1145Bob Parsons, GoDaddy's founder & CEO, is an ex-Marine and a decorated Vietnam veteran. Gunblast contracts with GoDaddy for our hosting - based in Scottsdale, AZ, Bob runs a very patriotic and gun-friendly company, and when you call them you always talk to an American. |
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Post by steveb on Nov 10, 2010 10:27:29 GMT -5
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARINES ! There is no such thing as an ex marine. I know a few. My Dad ran barges up onto beaches thru-out the Pacific. His saddest memories were of dropping a load, getting another and coming in to find half of the last load dead there on the beach and having to run the barge up over them. No choice, other barges to either side. "those brave young men", he called them. Again, today, America's biggest export, is her young. GOD Bless them. steve b
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Post by Ken O'Neill on Nov 10, 2010 11:26:54 GMT -5
Trouble is brewing. It can be felt throughout the colonies....
Nov. 10, 1775. Tun Tavern, in Philadelphia: a group of adventurers and rough and tumble men gather to form the Continental Marines, in hopes that there will soon be a Continental Navy. How could they have known what lay ahead, for themselves and those who would follow? Barbary pirates, Mexico, Harpers Ferry, Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Salvador, Bellau Wood, Pearl Harbor, Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Iwo Jima, the Chosin Reservoir, Hue, Khe Sanh, Phu Bai, Lebanon, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, on hundreds of ships and a thousand other places in a thousand other battles.
God Bless the United States Marines.
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Post by sixshot on Nov 10, 2010 11:40:48 GMT -5
My dad was a marine during world war II, my oldest grandson is also a marine, he's currently in Afghanistan & has served 2 tours in Iraq, he says he's seen it all & that Afghanistan is much worse. We need to get it over with & bring our boys home! Happy Birthday Marines!!
Dick
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Post by aciera on Nov 10, 2010 11:51:59 GMT -5
One of my mentors was at Chosin. Took a while before we talked about that.
Let's drink to the stout hearted men, let's drink to the salt of the earth.
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Post by peacemaker on Nov 10, 2010 23:25:01 GMT -5
AARUGHA!
235 years and still kickin' patootie for the Republic.
Semper Fidelis!
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Post by aciera on Nov 11, 2010 6:04:53 GMT -5
To error is human, to forgive devine.....
Neither of which is Marine Corps policy.......
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Post by njsbd on Nov 11, 2010 9:33:53 GMT -5
...here's a nice tribute from the folks at GoDaddy.com: www.godaddy.com/holiday/usmc/usmc-2010.aspx?isc=gda1145Bob Parsons, GoDaddy's founder & CEO, is an ex-Marine and a decorated Vietnam veteran. Gunblast contracts with GoDaddy for our hosting - based in Scottsdale, AZ, Bob runs a very patriotic and gun-friendly company, and when you call them you always talk to an American. Boge I was corrected rather hashly recently when I said " EX- Marine" Former Marine or Retired BUT not EX Was told that holds a very neg conotation. FWIW. Blessings on our Troops. |
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