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Thu Nov-09-06 04:56 PM
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Reep email chain letter. Comments, please? |
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VETERANS DAY IS COMING 11/11
It is the VETERAN , not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion.
It is the VETERAN , not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the VETERAN , not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the VETERAN , not the campus organizer, who has given us freedom to assemble.
It is the VETERAN , not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the VETERAN , not the politician, Who has given us the right to vote.
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It is the VETERAN , who salutes the Flag,
It is the veteran, who serves under the Flag, !
ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM O LORD, AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.
VETERANS KNOW THAT THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE HAS NO EXPIRATION DATE.
God Bless them all!!!
"You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result." Mahatma Gandhi
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Thu Nov-09-06 04:57 PM
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1. Um, no. It's the constitution, not the veteran. No disrespect |
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Thu Nov-09-06 04:59 PM
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There is no document called the Veteran of the United States of America.
Veterans may have served to defend the Constitution, and deserve our respect. They do not deserve us sucking up, which is what this email is.
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:08 PM
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15. GW said " Veterans are just a goddam piece of carbon-based life forms" |
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:07 PM
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14. My response, sent earlier: |
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"We were actually granted & guaranteed those things by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The Vets--including the Insurgent Americans in the Revolutionary War, fought and died to protect them.
LOVE that Gandhi quote.
Y' know he wasn't a Christian, right?"
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Thu Nov-09-06 04:57 PM
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2. Email them the list of Chickenhawks |
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:00 PM
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8. great idea! and mention that these non-veterans are the ones who are |
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trying to remove all of those rights!
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:02 PM
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10. Thank you for that link. Bookmarked for a rainy day! |
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Thu Nov-09-06 04:58 PM
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3. You forgot the "if you agree with this, send it to all your friend!" part |
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Thu Nov-09-06 04:58 PM
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4. I thought it was the Constitution |
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that gave us all of those things. And eternal rest? I'm a veteran, and not quite ready for that.
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:09 PM
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17. I think that's a ref to all George's many vacations. |
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Thu Nov-09-06 04:58 PM
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5. I would say it is the veterans (and thank you to all who serve!) |
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Edited on Thu Nov-09-06 04:59 PM by unpossibles
who preserves the rights mentioned.
If anything it is the Revolutionary (ie: the Founders of the country) who has given us all of those rights.
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:10 PM
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18. They'd ostensibly dying for that for Iraqis right now. |
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Edited on Thu Nov-09-06 05:17 PM by elehhhhna
go figure. "We're giving people rights over THERE, so we can take them away over HERE."
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Thu Nov-09-06 04:59 PM
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7. I'm surprised they didn't just say "It was Reagan" |
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That's what these patronizing type of things are usually trying to get at.....
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:11 PM
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19. SHUDDUP! IT WAS POPPY |
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:00 PM
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9. Bullshit. China, Cuba, N. Korea & Iran have plenty of Veterans too. |
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Not to take away from the role of U.S. Vets, but the existence of a Military alone does not make a Country free.
All the Vets in the world mean nothing without a valid, healthy Constitution based government and citizens who insist on exercising their freedom.
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:04 PM
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11. It's simplistic, makes people feel good and is harmless. Is the Gandhi |
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:12 PM
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21. Yes! Stoopid freepers. Using a quote from a pacifist. der. |
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Edited on Thu Nov-09-06 05:15 PM by elehhhhna
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:05 PM
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12. If soldiers mean more freedoms, explain Nazi Germany, USSR, etc. |
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Edited on Thu Nov-09-06 05:06 PM by jpgray
Nice sentiment, but soldiers do what they're told.
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:05 PM
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13. I'd say the veterans along with those smeared in this email preserve |
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the rights granted to America citizens. But I don't think soldiers in Iraq has given me the right to, say, a fair trial. And my dad, the Vietnam vet and career military man, after hearing this email, would like to know how, after being dragged to Vietnam, he somehow gave us freedom of religion when the * cabal was quite happy to start a "crusade" again Muslims.
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:08 PM
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16. Do Veterans not also work as journalists, preachers, poets, |
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politicians, and campus organizers?
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Fri Nov-10-06 11:14 AM
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:11 PM
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20. Actually, it's the constitution. But take a Vet to lunch, anyway. |
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And if you really want to respect the troops, work to bring 'em back from Iraq.
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:15 PM
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22. I clipped this quote a while back... |
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Edited on Thu Nov-09-06 05:17 PM by RobertSeattle
"I didn't spend time in uniform supporting and defending the Bible."
As a FYI, Here's the OATH an military officer takes. Note it doesn't say anyting about "Republican President"
I (insert name), having been appointed a (insert rank) in the (U.S. Army/Marines/Navy/Air Force/Coast Guard) under the conditions indicated in this document, do accept such appointment and do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God.
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:16 PM
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23. It is the VETERAN , not the Right Wing idealogue, |
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who has suffered under this administration.
Go to a VA hospital and find out how veterans really feel.
Oh, and stop sending out stupid email forwards that YOU DIDN'T WRITE.
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:21 PM
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24. militaristic selfcongratulation |
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These fellows are wonderfully ahistorical. During the Civil War the South was the armed camp- all of society was dedicted to its war effort- and the North retained a largely peacetime civil society. Guess in which one the Constitution of 1787 was preserved, and in which one it was betrayed.
All these good Republican militarists should have a good look at themselves in the mirror and read Section 1 of the 14th Amendment about a dozen times in a row. They're always willing to sell that one out, and their party has undermined all of the rights listed in the email through that.
It's these Republican 'veterans' who salute the flag, but hate and want to deny rights of full citizenship to half of Americans. The day they slandered Kerry they spit, pissed, and shat on the flag.
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:46 PM
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25. Well said. Thank you. |
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Thu Nov-09-06 05:54 PM
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26. Don't like being reminded of |
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the anniversary of our head-on MVA on the way to an early holiday shopping expedition that complicated our lives.
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Thu Nov-09-06 06:23 PM
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It was the preacher who became a veteran. ("If death must come--then far better for it to come when I'm shoulder to shoulder with these men who are fighting to preserve our country. . . . They are going to know that, in spite of being 'scared as hell' like the rest of them, a Catholic Priest is still going ahead and doing his work." Father James P. Flynn, Iwo Jima )
It was the reporter who became a veteran. (127 women given accreditation by the US government during the Second World War, including Margaret Bourke-White, the only non-Russian photojournalist in Moscow when the German invasion began (a period when the Russian leadership threatened to shoot anyone who took photographs) and Martha Gellhorn, who reached on the D-Day beaches by stowing away.)
It was the poet who became a veteran. (What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? -Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,- The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires. Wilfred Owen Died in Flanders. )
It was the campus organizer who became a veteran. (John Kerry. 'nuff said.)
It was the lawyer who became a veteran. (Lt. Buck Compton. WWII vet who later went on to convict Sirhan-Sirhan)
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Fri Nov-10-06 11:15 AM
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30. PLEASE make a thread with that on Monday. Please? |
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Fri Nov-10-06 02:04 PM
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Hey... I thought I was the only progressive in TX!
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Fri Nov-10-06 06:23 PM
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33. Guess you ain't here in NICK LAMPSON's District BLUE22 ! |
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Thu Nov-09-06 06:25 PM
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28. All due respect to Veterans, of course |
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but citizens have fought hard for some of those rights.
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Fri Nov-10-06 01:22 PM
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31. It was indeed the constitution |
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And it's been a long time since I heard a clergyperson publicly standing up for freedom of religion. Many of the most public preachers want to turn this country into a fucking theocracy.
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Fri Nov-10-06 07:01 PM
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34. North Korea and Cuba have veterans too... |
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