Category Archives: Veterans

ALL GAVE SOME, SOME GAVE ALL

Words have yet to be invented that could adequately describe the awe and respect I hold all those who are wearing or have worn the uniform of our country. To willingly put yourself in harm’s way because you have a deeply help conviction that what we have is worth defending takes a spirit that few possess. I’m still waiting to hear anyone tell me the principle that liberals would actually pick up a weapon and face a deadly fire to defend. They cannot. Their ideology is based on weakening the strong and preying on the ignorant. A feudal system where they are the chosen ones who impose their will on the masses by addicting them to government largesse then keeping them barely subsistent. Theirs is a system predicated on empty rhetoric. They have no real core beliefs. That takes something they know nothing about. It’s called guts.

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I wonder how the heroes who rest here for eternity would feel if they knew that a majority of the country have squandered the freedoms they paid for in exchange for a life of servitude to a federal handout from a totalitarian regime.

APTOPIX FRANCE D-DAY ANNIVERSARY

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These men went off to war and won every major battle. The war was lost at home thanks to liberals who now teach our children and run our media. Our current Secretary of state insults their memory by bragging about being among them when he only wanted to enhance his political resume. They were treated shabbily when they came home,when all they wanted was for their country to love them as much as they loved it.

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When these men fought for our freedom the entire country supported them. Those at home went to work and sacrificed so our soldiers would have everything they needed to win. This will never happen again as people have become selfish and lazy.It is easier to sit and criticize than it is to get up and defend what you think is right. We have gone from a monarch in England to one who’s set himself up here. And a shot was never fired.

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I have posted a few related items. This is not a day for politics. It is a day of remembrance for those who served and still serve. They earned it.

Added by CtH, cuz I got it in today’s email from Terrell and LOVE it!

2013_05 27 Terrell's for Memorial Day

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Dubya hosts 2013 Wounded Warrior 100K bike ride

2013_05 23-25 Dubya hosts another Wounded Warrior 100K bike event
Fourteen soldiers who were seriously wounded while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan were treated to a special three day weekend with former President George W. Bush at his Prairie Chapel Ranch. Participating warriors came from a variety of ranks from all across the nation.

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MY LIST OF RESENTMENTS

Posted by Pistol Pete

I had every intention of making this my last post.I was as heartbroken as any of you after the catastrophe of this week.I’d planned to divorce myself from politics and turn my computer into a solitaire game-playing machine.I was heartened by some of the comments that have been posted here the last two days and realized you don’t lose until you give up.You people have helped me through some extremely difficult times in my life and giving up would turn me into what I despise the most.It may be awhile until the sense of loss diminishes and the mourning period ends.Until then I’ve come up with an extensive list of things I resent.Consider this an open thread if you want to add anything you resent.

I RESENT

Being forced to see his vile countenance everywhere,smiling that chesire cat smile and lying openly,knowing half the populace will either believe him or don’t care and those who do care can’t do anything about it.He knows the press will never call him on it.

Him bellowing about bringing the parties together to work for the American people.I am fluent in Obamaspeak so loosely translated it means:I won again,you can’t do dick to stop me and you white motherfuckers can kiss my entire black ass.

His  porcine broodsow  issuing edicts on what wholly inedible foodstuffs our schools  must feed our children while she stuffs anything not moving in her cavernous maw.

Being regaled with her taxpayer-funded junkets around the world and the media swooning over how beautiful a camel can look in designer clothes.

Mia Love lost her bid for the House.

Allen West was redistricted out of his seat with the help of some voting chicanery.

That odiferous turd Alan Grayson is back.

Mourdock lost his Senate bid not so much because he said something sophomoric,but Dickless Lugar wanted payback for being primaried out.

Akin lost to a corrupt bitch in Missouri not so much because he stepped on his penis,but the GOP and Rove cut and ran leaving him to fend for himself against a filthy pig with abundant rescources.

Harry the Toad is trying to eliminate the filibuster so he can play the Keeper of the Realm.

The state of Israel is on its own since Barry would ask for a UN resolution of condemnation if Iran launched a nuclear attack.He has promised aid to Israel and we all know what his word is worth.He got 68% of the Jewish vote.

Hundreds of thousands of overseas military ballots arrived a day too late to be counted.They would have swung enough swing states to make Romney the president.

Three million white voters stayed home.The vote total McCain got in 2008 would have beaten Obama,who got two million less votes than he got in his first election.Maybe some were just tired of the mushy moderates we’ve had to swallow since 1988.Ron Paul voters are also suspect.

Our gallant military will be sliced to pieces by a CIC who openly despises them.

Veterans who have earned their benefits will be shown the back of Barry’s hand.

That gutless milksop John Boehner has already surrendered,telling Obastard he’s open to raising taxes in exchange for imaginary spending cuts everybody knows will never happen.

Tingles expressing his gratitude that Hurricane Sandy killed scores of people and destroyed millions of lives so his living god could look presidential and bipartisan thanks to governor Krispy Kreme.He can now spend the next four years cleaning his messiah’s sphincter with his tongue.

The day will come when we look back on when gas was $4.00 and refer to them as the good old days.

We were pushed over the cliff and into the abyss by dead-enders who have surrendered their dignity and self-respect in exchange for a life of Nanny Government giving them a lot of free stuff and making their decisions for them.They don’t give a damn about the deficit, taxes(they don’t pay any), unemployment(who wants to work?), health insurance(they get theirs free), or anybody that actually has skin in the game.

With our 2014 tax returns we will get a form to fill out listing any medical conditions you have,what medications you take and the name and contact information of your insurance carrier.If,like me,you have no insurance, you will pay a hefty fine and be placed in a government program.

The GOP-e is in the process of eliminating or marginalizing the Tea Party class of 2010 so they can go back to having circle jerk parties with the democrat buddies they split the taxpayer and lobbyist pies with.

My grandchildren may never have a good-paying full-time job or know what it’s like to be self-sufficient.

There will be another Republican president one day,but I may not live long enough to see it.I just wish I could see the country I love returned to a modicum of its former greatness before I lay my burden down for the last time.

If you have anymore feel free to post.I’ll be back sometime.

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Gen. Patrick Brady explains why president abandoned Americans in Benghazi

A Dust Off chopper saved my brother’s life in Vietnam. His son and daughter and their sons and daughters would not exist if the Obama-Panetta doctrine had been the order of the day back then. CtH

Medal of Honor recipient Major General Patrick Brady, U.S. Army (Ret.) says,

“My veteran friends are horrified by the Obama-Panetta doctrine. At least 359 retired flag officers support Mitt Romney – only five that I know of support Obama. Some 150 former prisoners of war also support Romney; I know of none who support Obama. America needs to listen to these veterans. They understand leadership. They know how to deal with risk in war. They would not want this man with them in combat or crisis. They never left a needy comrade behind. Obama did.”

Disarmed Forces By Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, U.S. Army (ret.) – Nov 4, 2012

http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/u-s-general-obama-paralyzed-by-fear/

Now I understand! For years, many veterans and active military have been alarmed about the idiocy of the changes in battlefield aeromedical evacuation known as Dust Off. For reasons having nothing to do with patient care, Dust Off has been removed from the control of the professionals, the medics, and put under the control of amateurs, aviation staff officers, or ASOs. This is the first such change since the Civil War.

I document the unparalleled excellence of Dust Off, and the effects of the changes, in my book, “Dead Men Flying.” Needless to say, it was the most outstanding battlefield operating system of that war – some one million souls saved and unprecedented survival rates. No warrior of Vietnam is more revered than the Dust Off crews.

In the words of Gen. Creighton Abrams, former U.S. Army chief of staff and former supreme commander in Vietnam: “A special word about the Dust Offs … Courage above and beyond the call of duty was sort of routine to them. It was a daily thing, part of the way they lived. That’s the great part, and it meant so much to every last man who served there. Whether he ever got hurt or not, he knew Dust Off was there. It was a great thing for our people.”

Fast forward to current battlefields. We hear horror stories about patients waiting and dying because Dust Off didn’t launch or came too late. The launch standard in my unit in Vietnam was two minutes; today it is 15 minutes! Can anyone imagine a fire truck taking 15 minutes to get under way? I could go on and on, but one has to ask, why? Why the changes to an excellent, proven system?

The answer is the Obama-Panetta Doctrine. In response to the horrible abandonment of dying Americans in Benghazi, Defense Secretary Panetta said: “(The) basic principle is that you don’t deploy forces into harm’s way without knowing what’s going on; without having some real-time information about what’s taking place.”

On its face, that is a remarkable, indeed incomprehensible, change from America’s doctrine in past wars. By that standard, there would have been no Normandy or Inchon. In fact, I can’t think of a war we fought in which we didn’t go into harm’s way without real-time information or to save lives – something the president refused to do in Benghazi. Dust Off would never launch in Vietnam under that doctrine.

To fully understand the doctrinal change, one has to understand President Obama. He has a dearth of understanding of our military and military matters. We hear he is uncomfortable in the presence of ranking military and seldom meets with them. He is not a person who can make decisions, and he takes an extraordinary amount of time to do so, leading to such unseemly labels for a commander in chief as “ditherer in chief.”

President Obama may have set records for voting “present” on important issues. He cowers from crisis decisions. He is a politician who thinks only in terms of votes and his image. Although I was a psychology major back in the day (I’d love to hear a professional analyze risk and Obama), I won’t try to define his insides, but I believe he is risk-averse – fearful of risk – and that is the basis of the Obama-Panetta doctrine.

This aversion for risk dominates Dust Off rescue operations where, in addition to an unconscionable reaction time, risk assessment is the primary consideration for mission launch – not patient care. In two years flying Dust Off in Vietnam, I never heard that term, nor did any Dust pilot I know. The ASOs, remote from the battle, have developed time-consuming algorithms to analyze risk while the patient bleeds, something that’s impossible to do by anyone other than the pilot and the ground forces at the scene.

And Obama’s terror of risk contributed to the massacre of Americans by terrorists in Benghazi. We hear that the president did not even convene the Counterterrorism Security Group while the Benghazi terrorist massacre was visually and verbally available in real time. That is like ignoring FEMA during Hurricane Sandy. But once you bring in a group labeled anti-terrorist, you have to acknowledge terror exists, something the president is loath to do.

My veteran friends are horrified by the Obama-Panetta doctrine. At least 359 retired flag officers support Mitt Romney – only five that I know of support Obama. Some 150 former prisoners of war also support Romney; I know of none who support Obama.

America needs to listen to these veterans. They understand leadership. They know how to deal with risk in war. They would not want this man with them in combat or crisis. They never left a needy comrade behind. Obama did.

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THE SATURDAY GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

Kind of a gray,chilly,windy day here in northen Illinois.Plans for today include stoking up the fireplace and ‘kicking it’,as my grandkids call it.

From CtH:


There’s a great FOX News report about the ride embedded on this page [10:27]
http://www.w100k.com/media/president-bush-rides-with-wounded-warriors-|-fox-news

Check out Melissa Stockwell’s page. She’s a 2x World Champion ParaTriathlete!
http://melissastockwell.com/Melissa_Stockwell/Home.html

If anybody gives you grief about being “disrespectful” toward their messiah, show them the piece of left-wing trash I found at the Daily Kos. Can you believe anyone actually DISSED George W. Bush (who they call “The Chimp”) for hosting special events for Wounded Warriors? They even managed, in the same short space, to DISS anyone and everyone who has ever worn the uniform. These people make me sick.

The Chimpster [brags about] sponsoring a golf tournament for Vets. How thoughtful. And why not?  Most of them have fairly flexible schedules nowadays (unemployed).
Except for the few lucky troops who found time to practice at the driving range when not dodging IEDs, I imagine most have never stepped onto a golf course, other than to pick up trash, turn on the sprinklers or to find a quiet spot to spend the night?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/04/11/1082548/-Can-George-W-Bush-Find-a-one-legged-Veteran-Who-Won-t-Beat-Him

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More pathetic BS from Team Obama

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I cannot help comparing this with Mitt Romney speaking at the rabidly anti-Republican NAACP’s convention.

Chrissy’s Site Bites @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2939357750056011884XmbSSD

It reminds me of another event in the annals of the Obama’s New Kind of Politics production company.

Chrissy’s Site Bites @ http://news.webshots.com/photo/2084905390056011884PZvCrU

If you like this, you might also enjoy @ https://polination.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/top-ten-things-obama-has-refused-to-release/

Sources:

Busted… Team O Plants 3 “Surprised” Veterans at Out-of-the-Way Diner to Speak With Obama – Then Releases Their Bios

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2012/07/some-surprise-team-obama-planned-meet-with-3-veterans-actually-campaign-volunteers-at-diner-in-surpr.html

http://victoriataftkpam.blogspot.com/2012/07/transparency-obama-staff-urge-diner.html

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Contempt and Disgust for War Veterans

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She had the same bitchy attitude at the Ground Zero Memorial Service.

Source @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108532/Michelle-Obama-frowns-state-dinner-President-thanks-Iraq-War-veterans-families.html

 

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What do vets do when they get home?

Sometimes, the way the Left talks about them, you’d have to conclude they’re all suicidal, PTSD basket cases bitterly clinging to their guns as they entertain psychotic visions of mass murder.

Remember how Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, put them on her Official List of Potential Domestic Terrorists … along with us buggy eyed Pro-Lifers?

Soooooooooo not what real vets are like! (Or Pro-Lifers!)

Yes, some of them have real problems. I’m not discounting their needs in ANY way. How could I, when it’s hit so close to home?  My kids have lost comrades to suicide, including one of the young men who attended their high school.

But the majority of them do better than their counterparts in the general population. Studies of Vietnam vets has shown the media stereotype is totally WRONG. On average, they have been more stable and successful in life than their peers who never went to war.

Some years ago, the MSM did an alarmist thing about the crime rate among returning vets. They conveniently forgot to mention that the crime rate was LOWER for vets than for non-vets of the same age and gender groups.

Of course, the media was a lot more interested in dead vets and screwed up vets back during the Bush years. NOW, they don’t want to risk reminding their Leftist base that the Big Oh is actually still sending troops into war zones.

Not that real Leftists give a crap about anyone who would voluntarily don a uniform that features the United States Flag, but some of them do give more than lip service to pacifism, even when a Democrat is in office.

Anyway … ranting aside. I really just wanted to post this fun little video featuring an Iraq War vet and his wife who are good friends of our family. It was shot with two Nikon D300 cameras set up on interval timing.

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Way to go, Cheeseheads!

Just got this in email. Click on graphic to embiggen.

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THE TUESDAY GRUDGE

Posted by Pistol Pete

US CAPITOL CHRISTMAS TREE PAYS HOMAGE TO OBAMA,BUT NOT TO JESUS
Why are we not surprised?
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-capitol-christmas-tree-pays-homage-obama-not-jesus

JESSE JACKASS TO BLACK BABY DADDY:FORGET TEACHING KIDS TO SUCCEED,TEACH THEM HOW TO FIGHT
How about teaching them how to extort money from corporations by threatening to call them racists?It worked for you.
http://www.therightscoop.com/jesse-jackson-to-black-fathers-forget-teaching-success-teach-your-children-how-to-fight/

THIS VIDEO SHOULD AT LEAST MAKE YOU SMILE;THE KITTENS ARE ADORABLE

IN ELECTION YEAR MANEUVER,SEBELIUS EASES OBAMACARE BURDEN ON STATES
Its going to be a tough year for democrats…they have to pretend to give a damn about anything but getting rich(er) and getting reelected.
http://biggovernment.com/sberry/2011/12/19/in-election-year-maneuver-sebelius-eases-obamacare-burden-on-states/..

SARAH PALIN:IT’S NOT TOO LATE FOR SOMEONE TO JUMP INTO GOP PRIMARY RACE
She has so disenchanted all of us,she should just go on about her business.
http://www.therightscoop.com/sarah-palin-its-not-too-late-for-someone-to-jump-in-the-gop-presidential-race/

OBAMA’S CHANCE AT A TWO-TERM PRESIDENCT
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/obamas_chance_at_a_two-term_presidency.html

BARNEY FRANK NOT EVEN TRYING ANYMORE
Graphic image warning!Bawney showed up on the House floor in a t-shirt and no bra.It ain’t pretty.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2011/12/19/photo_barney_frank_not_even_trying_anymore

REP. WALSH:HOLDER’S RACE CARD RESPONSE ‘ORCHESTRATED’ BY OBAMA

http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/19/congressman-holders-race-card-play-orchestrated-by-obama/

PLUGHEAD:THE TALIBAN,PER SE,IS NOT OUR ENEMY
You’d sing a different tune if one of them dropped an IED down your lace panties,Bucky.
http://www.therightscoop.com/biden-the-taliban-per-se-is-not-our-enemy/

OBAMA’S FREELOADER ECONOMY
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/obamas_freeloader_economy.html

AXE ACCUSES THE GOP OF ‘SCREWING UP’ THE ECONOMY TO HURT OBAMA
File this under ‘things too inane to elicit a response’
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/19/obama-campaign-strategist-axelrod-charges-republicans-with-screwing-up-economy/#ixzz1h24YYqH7

DOJ INSISTS HOLDER WASN’T PLAYING THE RACE CARD WHILE HE WAS PLAYING THE RACE CARD

POWER PLANT CLOSURES TO COST US TOWNS JOBS,TAXES
‘under my plan,the cost of electricity will necessarily skyrocket.’
http://townhall.com/news/us/2011/12/20/power_plant_closures_to_cost_us_towns_jobs_taxes

COMEDIAN JACKIE MASON SLAMS OBAMA’S HANUKKAH PARTY AS A FRAUDULENT PHOTO-OP
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/comedy-legend-jackie-mason-slams-obamas-hanukkah-party-as-a-fraudulent-photo-op/

ROMNEY HOLDS SUCK-UP-A-THON ON LETTERMAN
I like my titles better
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/mitt-romney-delivers-top-ten-on-letterman-newt-gingrich-really/

AM I NO LONGER FIT TO BE A CONSERVATIVE?
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/am_i_no_longer_fit_to_be_a_conservative.html

GOHMERT:TWO-MONTH TAX BILL EXTENSION IS ‘NOT GONNA HAPPEN’

OBAMA’S SIMPLISTIC VIEW OF INCOME INEQUALITY
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-simplistic-view-of-income-inequality/2011/12/19/gIQAeVmR5O_story.html?hpid=z4

MAN PUBLISHES BOOK OF 200 BLANK PAGES: ‘EVERYTHING OBAMA KNOWS ABOUT THE ECONOMY’
http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/19/man-publishes-book-of-200-blank-pages-everything-obama-knows-about-the-economy/

HOW OBAMA USES VETERANS
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/12/19/how_obama_uses_veterans

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