The sanctimonious poppy police should perhaps spend more time in quiet remembrance

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Murphy said:
I am partial to Glocks because of the flat top. It is a more natural sight plane. Easier to acquire your target. I don't own any autoloading handguns anymore though. Revolvers, lever rifles in pistol cals and single shots tickle my fancy these days.
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You are totally right about the Glock, and I sure ain't gonna hold the rest against you. As I said, I own some of the new guns, but I like the old guns because they assumed the shooter would be taking good, aimed shots.

My baby is a 1916 Lee-Enfield .303. But my new baby, which I'll be getting next week, is a BAR.
 
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Imagine marching back and forth for hundreds of miles through the mud of Flanders with one of those slung over your shoulders. They made our FNs seem like light-weight weapons.
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I don't march. I was Air Force.

I did once severely break a fingernail pushing a button. The Purple Heart made me feel better, though.
 
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Ah yes, Vietnam, millions dead so that we could live free...... oh, wait, the u.s. lost and we're still free. I guess that one wasn't about protecting our freedom. Well, there was the Korean war, nope, that one was a stalemate, no difference in freedom. Granada..... oh don't make me laugh.... middle east..... only freedoms lost so far are those that our own governments have taken away.


One "might" be able to argue that WWII protected our freedom, I know WWI definitely didn't. It had nothing to do with freedom. But it was the "War to end all wars", one of the biggest lies ever told.
 
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gerryh said:
Ah yes, Vietnam, millions dead so that we could live free...... oh, wait, the u.s. lost and we're still free. I guess that one wasn't about protecting our freedom. Well, there was the Korean war, nope, that one was a stalemate, no difference in freedom. Granada..... oh don't make me laugh.... middle east..... only freedoms lost so far are those that our own governments have taken away.


One "might" be able to argue that WWII protected our freedom, I know WWI definitely didn't. It had nothing to do with freedom. But it was the "War to end all wars", one of the biggest lies ever told.
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Wrong, but thanks for playing. None of the enemies in WWII presented an existential threat to the U.S. The only war for our freedom and existence we have "fought" since 1865 was the Cold War.
 
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Wrong, but thanks for playing. None of the enemies in WWII presented an existential threat to the U.S. The only war for our freedom and existence we have "fought" since 1865 was the Cold War.
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I see you have comprehension problems. I feel sorry for your "clients". Maybe have a law student explain what I wrote.
 
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gerryh said:
You can try to think what you want. However, I never said that WWII WAS about "our" freedom. Thanks for playing, but I think your mommy is calling.
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OK, I'll give you that you said "one might argue that WWII was about our freedom."

Assuming "one" is ignorant and not real bright.
 
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Tecumsehsbones said:
Which is why we call it Veterans Day.

Well, that and, to be honest, we don't see much good about the 1914-18 mess. We tend to see it as a family feud run by two sides that were so blindingly incompetent they beat themselves to a standstill and destroyed a continent, then when they were standing there staring at each other, too hurt and tired to throw a meaningful punch, we finally sighed and went over to wrap it up.
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No, you call it Veterans Day because your Memorial Day is in May and originally commemorated the dead of the US Civil War.
 
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Bar Sinister said:
No, you call it Veterans Day because your Memorial Day is in May and originally commemorated the dead of the US Civil War.
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Wrong, but thanks for playing. We called it Armistice Day originally. But then it turned out that the "war to end war" didn't, so commemorating just one in a long chain of European blunders didn't seem to make much sense. The idea to change it to honor all veterans arose in 1947 and was made Federal law in 1954.
 
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That's true, but what I never understood was why Congress never approved "The Wyrding Way" aka "the Weirding Way". I puzzled over that for close to 15 years until I was researching a paper and found out that it had to do with jihad. Specifically, parsing and conjugation.

I had.
Ji had.
They had.

My epiphany was almost instantaneous (which really means it WASN'T instantaneous.) You couldn't conjugate an Arab, just blow him up. No conjugation needed.

BOOM!

Sorry. We now return you to our regularly scheduled debate, already to progress.
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...as it was with Armistice Day! Okay?

It was just an observation. Chill.
 
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Hehehe... Chief of a volunteer department isn't much of a horn to blow... it really only matters to people like Petros, who have a uniform fetish.
Anywho...got to carry the NATO flag which was a particular honour for me. Now that Trump is Prez, that might be last time anybody will carry that flag in our service.
Oh, I almost forgot... only one person said to me "you don't have your poppy on". I said, "yes, I know". There was no riot and I won't be on the national news.
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Chief bottle sorter...
 
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