Here's a story I came across I thought Vets and those who enjoy history would like. Link follows. Don't Shoot, We're Republicans - the Fate of the USS Willian D. Porter DD-579
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Here's a story I came across I thought Vets and those who enjoy history would like. Link follows. Don't Shoot, We're Republicans - the Fate of the USS Willian D. Porter DD-579
Nice read. Thanks for posting it.
Kahn Souphanousinphone, Sr. "I could be manic, could be depressed. Real crapshoot."
Excellent read, and a good dash of humor for the day. You really can't make this stuff up.
NRA Life Member
"But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?"
"You may think I'm pompous, but actually I'm pedantic... let me explain the difference."
"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."
Great read. If the USN doesn't remember history, maybe they'll repeat it.
Liberty, Property, or Death - Jonathan Gardner's powder horn inscription 1776
Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.
("Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it.")
-Virgil, Aeneid, vi, 95
Great, very well written story!
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...Adam
"If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no head." --Winston Churchill
Could become our new logo................
And to think that I thought I've made some bumbling manuevers in my days,,,,WHEW!!!!!!
That ship was jinxed from the word GO.
If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.
Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British, He shot them!
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy." -- Ernest Benn