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5/26/2014

Memorial Day

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 10:52 am



A day to remember and be thankful.

34 Responses to “Memorial Day”

  1. Was out marching with utes as part of town parade.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  2. It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. – by George S. Patton

    To Absent Comrades.

    /hand salute

    redc1c4 (abd49e)

  3. Story of the beautiful old poem that captures both the horror and sadness of war. Grade school kids used to learn this poem that came out of WWI. When did that stop?

    http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-05-25/news/ct-kass-met-0525-20140525_1_poppies-flanders-fields-memorial-day

    elissa (d3e439)

  4. Thanked my cousin Mark, He never survived Nam, but being a helicopter pilot he helped a lot of soldiers survive.
    I was named after a hero.

    mg (31009b)

  5. Let’s remember the sailors of old who wait patiently for the sea to give up her dead.

    A Ballad of Cape St. Vincent

    Now, Bill, ain’t it prime to be a-sailin’,
    Slippin’ easy, splashin’ up the sea,
    Dossin’ snug aneath the weather-railin’,
    Quiddin’ bonded Jacky out a-lee?
    English sea astern us and afore us,
    Reaching out three thousand miles ahead,
    God’s own stars a-risin’ solemn o’er us,
    And yonder’s Cape St. Vincent and the Dead.

    There they lie, Bill, man and mate together,
    Dreamin’ out the dog-watch down below,
    Anchored in the Port of Pleasant Weather,
    Waiting for the Bo’sun’s call to blow.
    Over them the tide goes lappin’, swayin’,
    Under them’s the wide bay’s muddy bed,
    And it’s pleasant dreams to them to hear us sayin’,
    Yonder’s Cape St. Vincent and the Dead.

    Hear that P. and O. boat’s engines dronin’,
    Beating out of time and out of tune,
    Ripping past with every plate a-groanin’,
    Spitting smoke and cinders at the moon?
    Ports a-lit like little stars a-settin’,
    See ’em glintin’ yaller, green, and red,
    Loggin’ twenty knots, Bill, but forgettin’,
    Yonder’s Cape St. Vincent and the Dead.

    They’re ‘discharged’ now, Billy, ‘left the service,
    Rough an’ bitter was the watch they stood,
    Drake an’ Blake, an’ Collingwood an’ Jervis,
    Nelson, Rodney, Hawke, an’ Howe an’ Hood.
    They’d a hard time, haulin’ an’ directing
    There’s the flag they left us, Billy tread
    Straight an’ keep it flyin’ recollectin’,
    Yonder’s Cape St. Vincent and the Dead.

    ropelight (79161d)

  6. In memory of Senior Airman Nicholas Alden, age 25, and Airman 1st Class Zachary Cuddeback, age 21 — murdered in 2011 by a Balkan Muslim directly motivated by Mark Cuban’s scurrilously anti-American film “Redacted”.

    Something to consider as conservatives come to his defense. Some of us, like me, have family members in the armed services.

    (Cuban also had the bright idea to distribute the anti-American 911 Truther film “Loose Change”. What a guy.)

    http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/31/terrorist-credits-hollywood-for-his-recruitment/

    How prophetic was Bill O’Reilly when he wrote in 2007 about “Redacted” that “the film will be used by Muslim jihadists to recruit terrorists.”

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/11/15/far-left-mark-cuban-and-movie-that-will-put-us-troops-in-more-danger/

    random viking (4704e0)

  7. mark cuban hates black people

    i read it in the los angeles times

    happyfeet (8ce051)

  8. Yeah, Muslims are really driven insane by YouTube videos. Nice call random.

    Mike K (cd7278)

  9. Mark Cuban is a disgrace… that said, my knee is bowed in a prayer for the souls of those who gave their blood, and for the families who must live with their loss.
    God speed and God bless.

    steveg (794291)

  10. patriotic holidays in a fascist whorestate are increasingly gay

    please to discuss

    happyfeet (8ce051)

  11. Catholicism has never been accused of scholarship:

    http://news.yahoo.com/pope-netanyahu-spar-over-jesus-native-language-140042705.html;_ylt=AwrBEiG1YYNToS8A9ZLQtDMD

    Obviously equally adept at Aramaic, Hebrew and Greek. Nazareth was a morning walk outside Sepphoris, Herod Antipas’ capital of the Galilee.

    gary gulrud (46ca75)

  12. You’ve apparently never gone head to head with a Jesuit.

    ropelight (79161d)

  13. Thank goodness for the families who have sent brave men and women into battle for our great nation. Thank God for their children’s sacrifice.

    Ag80 (eb6ffa)

  14. Mike K: Yeah, Muslims are really driven insane by YouTube videos. Nice call random.

    The exact words of the murderer Arid Uka: “I thought what I saw in that video, these people would do in Afghanistan,”

    From the link: “Arid Uka told the judge that he murdered the two Americans in March after he watched the movie’s graphic depiction of U.S. soldiers raping a girl in Iraq, according to a BBC report.”

    If I could write it in crayon for you, sounds like your mind might be able to process this.

    random viking (4704e0)

  15. Comment by random viking (4704e0) — 5/26/2014 @ 8:59 pm

    The exact words of the murderer Arid Uka: “I thought what I saw in that video, these people would do in Afghanistan,”

    So, you think he’s telling the truth, and nobody sent him?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arid_Uka

    Via the web Uka had contacts to Sheik Abdellatif of the so-called Da’wa group, who preached in two mosques in Frankfurt. The Salafi mosque of these two is considered as a meeting-point of Islamists. Several well-known Islamists have been seen there.[18]

    Sammy Finkelman (f1bb90)

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  17. Sammy Finkelman: So, you think he’s telling the truth, and nobody sent him?

    From the same Wikipedia entry you (selectively) quoted from:
    “Due to the giving of evidence of Arid Uka, the catalyst for the decision to attempt an assassination of US soldiers was a video-clip of Youtube which showed rape of Iraqi Muslim women by US soldiers. The video-clip is from Redacted, a US movie based on the Mahmudiyah massacre.”

    The defense of Cuban is getting somewhat comical. Apparently, if someone happens to be right on one issue (and, for what it’s worth, I agree with his latest comments) it erases his history of pernicious buffoonery. Clive Bundy and Donald Trump also come to mind. This is a study in social psychology, really.

    My guess is Cuban spent Memorial Day planning his next insider trading scheme (Mamma.com, for those not keeping track), and never gave these two murdered airmen one iota of thought. What’s your guess?

    random viking (4704e0)

  18. Something to consider as conservatives come to his defense. Some of us, like me, have family members in the armed services.

    Why is it a conservative defense of Cuban? His recent Kerfluffle, which is what brings his name to the news recently, suffered from bipartisan defense.

    JD (e5a0fa)

  19. Well, if people defended Cuban, qua Cuban, they made a mistake. What they were defending was what he said. Which may not have been very honest of him. It was not even honest to call fear of young (black) men in hoodies any kind of racism.

    Sammy Finkelman (f1bb90)

  20. JD: Why is it a conservative defense of Cuban?

    Yeah JD, all of those nasty tweets to Stephen A. Smith were likely from conservatives.

    Lefties don’t typically need a reason to defend anti-American miscreants. Conservatives, I would think, do.

    random viking (4704e0)

  21. “Yeah JD, all of those nasty tweets to Stephen A. Smith were likely from conservatives.”

    Really?! Conservatives were calling him an Uncle Tom? Conservatives were calling him a sell-out?

    JD (f87e90)

  22. “Yeah JD, all of those nasty tweets to Stephen A. Smith were likely from conservatives.”

    random viking – Are you speaking about last week or years ago? Two unrelated matters. It’s unfortunate you cannot separate them in your head.

    Leftists are all in favor of censoring and limiting speech and it appears you fall into that camp. I’m happy for you.

    If you believe radical Islamists need any excuse at all to become violent and that as a result we need to deliberately restrict our speech, you are an idiot.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  23. I’ll give random viking the presumption of incoherence, which I am often guilty of. I think he’s saying Stephen A. is conservative because leftists piled up on him.

    nk (dbc370)

  24. random viking appears to have dipped into the Mead this morning. Or maybe akvavit.

    carlitos (e7c734)

  25. I was referring to his comments about Cuban in which he tried to equate past actions with current completely unrelated statements.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  26. In related news, CAIR sues the PM of Canada for linking them to Hamas, a link previously made in court in the U.S.

    Nobody is allowed to tell the truth about adherents of Islam, mostly peaceful members of a medieval death cult. That’s the way random viking wants it.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  27. JD: Really?! Conservatives were calling him an Uncle Tom? Conservatives were calling him a sell-out?

    Yeah really, JD.

    I’ll admit to being poor at making my sarcasm crystal clear, if you admit to not reading my posts to the thread — which should have made my sarcasm obvious. Read first, spew later — just a tip.

    Let me write it in crayon for you: I consider Stephen A. Smith to be a conservative, which means he’s a good guy in my book. Anyone who is a buddy of Mark Levin is a (figurative) buddy of mine. I consider his defense of Cuban as misspent personal capital, but now that he has his own fires to put out (as a result) he deserves support.

    random viking (4704e0)

  28. daley, you absolutely nailed it. I’ve pondered what a Rube Goldberg machine portrayed in words would look like, and you nailed it — that’s what I mean.

    random viking (4704e0)

  29. Daley – this drive by is funny.

    JD (f87e90)

  30. I am curious what conservatives were calling Stephen A Smith an Uncle Tom, or sellout.

    JD (e5a0fa)

  31. JD – I love schizoid vikings!

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  32. Maybe random viking is one of those rare lifelong, concerned, Christian, conservatives who get spotted here.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  33. Being lectured by a drive by with a history of 6 comments about spotting sarcasm was special.

    JD (f87e90)

  34. MSSpellCheck has it ‘rumdumb’.

    gary gulrud (46ca75)


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