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0bama is trying real hard to make America lose. Number one reason to hate that son of a communist bitch.
I’m gonna watch American Sniper again tonight.
Back when Americans were raised to be winners! Fucking obama and all the GodDamn libs!
We need to return back to a time when America wasn’t afraid to identify the enemy for who and what they are and kill them, keep on killing them, until you kill the last one, then you kill his pet goat.
Thanks to Ralph Peters!
Thanks BFH and Bad Brad. Salute from a 20+ year Veteran.
240grJHP, Never served. Wished I would have. But I meet bad ass Service people, some in, some out daily. I’d lose all hope save our military personnel. Thanks for your service buddy.
It takes a great nation to make great war movies.
Dr. Tar. I hesitated sending this to FUR because of the movie connection. But after watching it you realize these movies were made based on historically MoFo bad ass people and real events.
Draft number was 24 when I graduated from High School in 1972. The draw down in Nam had already begun. I would have, if called, gone to that war that Cronkite and the Democrats had already undermined.
I guess I’m just lucky. Many thousands were not.
I guess it’s good to be lucky, but there’s a lot of guilt in that too.
My hat is off to everyone whose put their lives in harms way to protect my freedom and I try to repay them every day with respect and honor for them.
My mother just happened to have born me at a very lucky time.
@PHenry ~ graduated in ’70, draft # was 360, figured Uncle Sam wasn’t going to call me …. little did I know that the draft was only for 19-year olds …. next year my # was 4 …. no shit, 4 … Uncle Sam classified me 2-A by then, apprentice electrician, figured I was gone … they never called.
I salute all of those 1-A’s that went in my stead
btw, know what I hated about ‘Patton’? …. all the Germans were driving around in Patton tanks!
I have seen almost all of the movie’s in that compilation, Patton’s speach is one of the best openings ever. That’s the way I want our leaders to talk again, and all of us to swell with pride when we start really winning again, not empty platitudes. (I know that our fighting men and women are doing their very best with the leaders we have)
Thanks Brad, made our night.
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Though I served between wars in the 1970’s/80’s, I will always feel a great, sacred honor to be part of the long line of warriors to preserve this nation. I tried to re-up on 9/12, but was too old. I’m so glad that the shameful attitudes of the 60’s/early ’70’s toward the military is over. I used to change out of my uniform to drive home from the base because I often worried about some random crazy person doing something bad.
@Geoff
One of our recent leaders did talk like that atop the rubble of the WTC in 2001. Remember? ‘I hear you and pretty soon the people who knocked down these Towers will hear from all of us.’ Or something close to that.
And then the muzzies got to GWB thanks to supposed conservatives like Grover Norquist. They began their Taqiyya on him and he lost his way and his resolve. Not long after he said, Islam is a religion of peace.
Conspiracy theories abound about that.
I liked Bush V1.0 Not V2.0
I’d heard someone read Patton’s real speech once and it was a lot more colorful than the movie version. I found it again and here’s an example:
” Don’t forget, you men don’t know that I’m here. No mention of that fact is to be made in any letters. The world is not supposed to know what the hell happened to me. I’m not supposed to be commanding this Army. I’m not even supposed to be here in England. Let the first bastards to find out be the Goddamned Germans. Someday I want to see them raise up on their piss-soaked hind legs and howl, ‘Jesus Christ, it’s the Goddamned Third Army again and that son-of-a-fucking-bitch Patton.’ We want to get the hell over there.” The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.
Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I’d shoot a snake!
When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a German will get to him eventually. The hell with that idea. The hell with taking it. My men don’t dig foxholes. I don’t want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don’t give the enemy time to dig one either. We’ll win this war, but we’ll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we’ve got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We’re not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we’re going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We’re going to murder those lousy Hun cock suckers by the bushel-fucking-basket.”
For some reason I can’t post the link successfully. I’m sure you can Bing it, though.
Thank you for your service, Abigail.
Cronkite, the most trusted man in America at the time and he brainwashed me into thinking Nam was an unjust war waged on simple people by an uncaring military industrial complex that was profiteering. Cronkite was a kindly chap, who was a communist operator, but as a kid of 17 I had no idea I was being propagandized.
The liberal brainwashing has only gotten worse over time as they are emboldened.
I figured out the truth, eventually. But it was from my own leg work and talking with those who were in Viet Nam that I finally figured it all out. The military won that war. The political class, particularly the Democrats, made sure it was lost.
AA. Trying to figure out how to say this with out sounding like a total idiot. Which actually I was. My dad is/was a member of the Lucky Bastards Club. At my later age a bunch of individuals that were convinced they weren’t living through tomorrow so WTF. I don’t think most or any if them got past that shit. Use to call it Battle Fatigue now they call it something else. So I’m twenty something and get engaged to my wife. The subject comes up with my parents about her parents. What branch of the service was her dad in. I answered ” A Marine, but he never saw combat”. The old man grabbed me by the elbow and spun me around and said “You need to understand something. Everyone had a job to do. And because I was getting shot at and he wasn’t doesn’t make my ass more important than his in the effort”. One of the few times I remember he thought he had to straighten me out on something.
My roommate thinks I’m crazy, but I love watching these old war movies. Started off with Sgt. York. Then The Desert Rats, Stalag 17,
The Longest Day and The Great Escape. I really liked Von Ryan’s Express, Run Silent/Run Deep, The Dirty Dozen and Tobruk.
My favorites are Patton, Tora! Tora! Tora! and Midway. And for some of the new ones – Saving Private Ryan, Lone Survivor and American Patriot.
I think I’ll schedule a binge watching some weekend. I need to feel the pride of our country just before the election. HooRaa
BB — You don’t sound like an idiot. That was good of him to gently correct your view of things. 😉 Still, that’s one of the reasons (not having been engaged in a shooting war) I am uncomfortable when people say “Thank you for your service.” But that’s my problem. We were, after all, at the height of the Cold War and prepared to deal with it in whatever form it took. It occurred to me more than once that I should have chose working in a missile silo, but they’re so remote! Just kidding. Women in the Air Force didn’t have many opportunities to serve in forward positions, so that’s why I switched out of avionics and into a loadie slot. I’m happy to report that my service influenced a young niece who served in the Army at NATO in Belgium where she met her future Army husband.
Patton was a great General. Scott was a good actor.
Scott refused to accept the Academy Award for portraying Patton in 1970, “on philosophical grounds.” Scott was a left wing RINO.
Patton was a great General. Just sayin.’
Now, there’s a Dad’s Dad.
AA, bull shit. Thank you for your service. And my father would say the same.
Claudia — Haha! I, too, love war movies and watched war serials on tee vee when I was young. My personal favorites: Twelve O’Clock High followed by The Rat Patrol.
BB & PHenry: Thank you.
@Abigail Adams.
Thanks for the real transcript. Can you imagine any current General speaking like that? Any that might have would be rushed out the door. And they have been. I like a General, or a President, who tells the enemy and his forces that they have permission to rip off their heads and shit down their necks.
@MoeTom….
That was when George C. Scott was all about Indians as I recall. I mean, native americans. Or whatever they call themselves these days. They took over Alcatraz about then, right? Brilliant.
twelve oclock high is on YouTube. I watched the first year of it recently. corny, but i love seeing those old aircraft fly.
in Patton, the germans all got the patton disguised as the Panzer, and the allies all got Shermans. Too bad there wernt enough surviving panzers or at least a good special effects department.
Charlie, Dad was in B 24’s. Jimmy Stewart (the actor) was their wing commander.
I met a man 10 years back that actually flew the hump.
If your dad is still around tell him thanks. A very dangerous job. It woulda scared the living shit out of me.
@BB
Father-in-Law was B24 pilot and trainer. When we lived in China Lake we got special permission to go to where B24s were mothballed. Crawled all through them. Really great day.
I remember the upper turret gunner seat had a roll of toilet paper mounted on the chair. Stirs the imagination.
PHenry, man I bet we could swap some stories. Nobody was big on that Sperry Rotating Ball Turret. Life expectancy was like .47 seconds in combat.
Quotes From General James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis, US Marines
“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”
“I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you f* with me, I’ll kill you all.”
“Find the enemy that wants to end this experiment (in American democracy) and kill every one of them until they’re so sick of the killing that they leave us and our freedoms intact.”
Claudia, I like the cut of your Jib! Those classic movies are my favorites also! I like them better than the newer ones, mostly because I saw them as a kid and made a lasting impression on me.
I would add “The Battle of the Bulge ” to the list.
My father was mostly bored by movies, but he loved him some “Bridge on the River Kwai” and “Patton.”
Once our elected officials figured out they could first support military action, then undermine it for political\financial gain, the republic was lost.
If nothing else, the old movies remind us of the potential within.
My Dad was too young to serve in Korea and separated from the Air Force before Viet Nam. I was too young for Viet Nam and separated before the first Gulf War. We were in a sense, both Cold War veterans. Still, proud to have stood on the watch and did so because of love for country. God Bless the U.S.
@bayouwulf: They also serve who only stand and wait.
Vietvet. I stood and waited, or sat on my bunk, during The Cold War. 1960 to 1964 US Army Europe.
Bay of Pigs Fiasco. April 1961.
Berlin Wall Startup. August 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis. October 1962
The Assassination Of President Kennedy. November 1963.
Those were scary times for 18 to 22 year olds in the service.
Now forgotten, or never know of, by the 18 to 30, college students of today. Now that’s scary!
Unruly Refugee – Aargh, matey! I can remember the reviews when American Sniper came out. The best ones were from the Middle East reviewers. They’d tell of how when they viewed in a movie theatre the movie’s opening scene, the Filthy Mohammedan Savages in the audience were yelling in Arabic “infidel son of a filthy whore, shoot her! Cannot thee see the unclean woman is a terrorist? Allah commands you to kill her!”