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pidaua
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posted June 14, 2006 07:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pidaua     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
FORT HUACHUCA — Soldiers are guardians of two special flags — the American and the Army banners.

More than two centuries ago today, the Continental Congress adopted two resolutions on June 14, one in 1775 and the other two years later. The first established an Army. The second gave them a flag to fight under. For Spc. Richard Edminson, a member of the fort’s honor guard, the Army flag represents the need for a service to ensure democracy is protected.

“It represents our freedom,” the soldier said.

From the top of the flag, campaign streamers honoring battles from the Revolutionary War to action in Kosovo hang.

On Thursday, three more streamers will be added to the Army flag, bringing the total number to 178, according to the Army Times. The streamers will be for Afghanistan, the global war on terrorism and Iraq.

The streamers are the history of the Army, Edminson said.

In 1775, Congress adopted a resolution that stated: “Be it resolved that six companies of expert riflemen be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland, and two in Virginia. That each company consist of a captain, three lieutenants, four sergeants, four corporals, a drummer or a trumpeter, and 68 privates.”

The resolution also fixed the amount of monthly pay with captains receiving $20, lieutenants $13.50, sergeants $8, the musicians $7.50 and privates “six and two-third dollars.”

On its 231st birthday, there are many more soldiers serving in today’s Army — active duty, National Guard and Reserves.

Almost a year later, the Continental Congress declared independence on July 4, 1776.

In 1777, Congress adopted another resolution calling on the creation of an American flag, with 13 stripes, of alternating red and white and 13 stars on union of blue.

As the nation grew, more stripes and stars were added, until someone realized with each additional stripe the flag’s shape would become unwieldy. Congress resolved that only 13 stripes would be part of the flag and the addition of each new state would merit a star.

There is something special about the national emblem for Sgt. George Ward, another member of the fort’s honor guard.

The duty of a soldier is to defend the flag, which to Ward symbolizes the people of the United States.

All military members have been called upon to bleed and die for America throughout the nation’s history, he said.

“If something happens and I am called upon to lay down my life for it, I will,” Ward said.

Army and U.S. flags are bound by a special connection, something that happened when the Army was founded on June 14, 1775, and when the U.S. flag was created on June 14, 1777.

On Tuesday, honor guard members lowered a small American flag, something that is done every day of the year at the post’s Brown Parade Field.

Today, the Fort Huachuca Honor Guard will be raising a 22-foot-by-36-foot garrison American flag, which is only flown on holidays and special occasions.

June 14 is a special occasion for the Army and the nation.


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Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do for our Country

~Pidaua - GNAGIB

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jwhop
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posted June 14, 2006 08:29 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks Pid...and thank God for the United States Military

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lotusheartone
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posted June 14, 2006 09:56 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks..

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pidaua
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posted June 15, 2006 12:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pidaua     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Do you know what the pathetic thing is? I have read posts of people stating that while they hate the war they support our Soldiers. If that is true, why is it the only people to respond to this are the same people that always respond in support of our troops?

How it is people can complain about the war, yet post all these horrid stories of a hungry Marine or a Soldier that dies in Oklahoma- proclaiming that they only have the interest of our boys and girls serving our Country at hand- yet only three of us (I know some couldn't post because they are not around, busy or haven't seen it yet) actually posted?

Sometimes I want to shake those people and say "Hey, set aside your hate for war and thank these men and women for giving their lives so we can sit here and have the right to b1tch about everything under the sun. Thank them for training across the globe in developing new strategies that keep our Country and other's safe from harm. Just because you hate Bush does not mean it's proper to take it out on the men and women serving in the Military"

That's just my two-cents!

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lotusheartone
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posted June 15, 2006 01:07 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I Know what you mean..Pidaua..

they are having two faces..and neither can see..oh my. ...

Love and Respect for ALL..

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jwhop
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posted June 15, 2006 01:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The idea leftists support our troops, group leftists, leftists in the press...which is almost all the press, and leftist democrats in the Congress, is sheer bullsh*t.

We know from one of the supreme icons of leftists that's not just a lie, that's a "damned lie". Bill Clinton...."I despise the military".
The military despised Clinton just as openly. Many of our best and brightest military commanders from generals on down, retired and refused to serve under that parody of an American president.

This lamed brain moron and traitor had an American soldier court marshaled for refusing to put on the military uniform of a foreign power and serve under the UN flag...the UN uniform and flag of a political power under which he never enlisted to serve, the name of which is no part of the oath American soldiers take when they enlist.

The very idea leftists support the troops is a gigantic lie, a lie so in your face it could have come straight off the pages of Pravda before Ronald Reagan tossed the Soviet Union on the ash heap of history.

Every effort is made by leftists...in the Congress, in leftist groups and in the leftist press, to magnify the exploits of terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq while at the same time, downplay US military successes. The most recent example was the killing of the top al-Qaeda terrorist in Iraq.

It doesn't matter they say. It will only spawn more terrorists they say, among other pearls of leftist wisdom which people with more than 2 brain cells recognize as pure unadulterated bullsh*t.

So Pid, pardon me for the long winded way I say; when leftists say they support our US military forces, it's bullsh*t. Giving aid and comfort to terrorists fighting against US military forces can in no way be considered "support". It can and has been properly defined as the very definition of treason...and not just by me.

I'm not in the least surprised to see so few responses to your post about
2 important American symbols, the American flag and US Army banners. Not only do leftists despise the American flag and military banners, they despise the very Republic for which they stand.

Up theirs.

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Venusian Love
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posted June 15, 2006 02:07 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ah shut the **** up with that leftist crap already.


Stupid retarded old man.


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jwhop
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posted June 15, 2006 02:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Is there a brain dead leftist moron in the room?

Please raise your left hand so you can be recognized.

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lotusheartone
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posted June 15, 2006 02:22 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Venusian Love..that is not very LOving..

Jwhop..is AwesOme!

LOve and Respect for ALL. ...

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pidaua
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posted June 15, 2006 02:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pidaua     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
LMAO..... now for a comment from the depth of a New York Gutter... our very own LindaLand Guttersnipe troll...... Venusian Love.. with her mentally challenged view of the world......


Hee hee....

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lotusheartone
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posted June 15, 2006 02:48 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I LOve and Respect you Venusian LOve. ...

why is it so hard..for us to be nice to each other..and not judge each other?

We are all the God Essence..equally..undertaking to do all with LOve..and bring Peace on Earth. ...

everything we do..is an Action..with an equal or greater Re-Action..

LOve and Respect for ALL. .

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pidaua
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posted June 15, 2006 02:48 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pidaua     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
jwhop said

"So Pid, pardon me for the long winded way I say; when leftists say they support our US military forces, it's bullsh*t. Giving aid and comfort to terrorists fighting against US military forces can in no way be considered "support". It can and has been properly defined as the very definition of treason...and not just by me."


You are ABSOLUTELY right jwhop... .that is why I put this up here to begin with. First of all to acknowledge the Military and the Birthday of the Army and Secondly, to prove that no liberal here in their right mind would allow themselves to say Happy Birthday or even thank you to our Soldiers.


BUT... when an article comes out about a Private that dies at Fort Sill- it becomes a heated thread AGAINST the Military. It is hypocritical that one can use the Military as a weapon against the war stating their love for our boys and girls, but not even a "Hell, thanks alot for potentially dying for us". Nope not a peep....

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Venusian Love
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posted June 15, 2006 02:54 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ahhh shut the **** up you tranvestite looking woman.


Go get a facial.


That wasn't to you steph. It was for the ugly ass desert ogar.

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lotusheartone
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posted June 15, 2006 03:04 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Venusian Love..you can't say stuff like that..it's wrong..turn it around..

Smile..and feel the LOve..for ALL

I am sending out so much LOVE to EveryOne. ...

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jwhop
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posted June 15, 2006 03:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Usher, would you please seat our new arrival with the other "accidental American" leftists...and get her a glass of water so she can take her meds?

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pidaua
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posted June 15, 2006 03:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pidaua     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
To the Guttersnipe troll.. if I look like a transvestite I can't imagine how you feel when you look in the mirror LMAO


By the way, if you insist on calling me names, please make sure you can spell them correctly.. it's "Ogre" you moron.

Now be a good socio-path and take your meds.

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Venusian Love
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posted June 15, 2006 03:44 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ok. I am so sorry Pidua. It was very wrong of me to say that.

NOT (Damn desert ogars)

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jwhop
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posted June 15, 2006 04:01 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Pid, our differences with leftists amount to much more than differences of opinion...which is what leftists would have everyone believe.

It's an ideological divide, the gulf of which is so wide it cannot be closed, filled in or bridged.

Their ideology compels them to attack the United States at every turn, to destroy American institutions from within and to treat the United States as the enemy. It follows naturally they despise the American military, all the symbols of America, American ideals and America itself.

The difference between leftists and most other Americans is that leftists recognize the United States must be destroyed or neutralized to make way for their longed for socialist/communist one world government under the control of the UN.

Leftists have been working toward that end for almost 60 years, buried in the woodwork. When they come out in the open, their ideas are rejected by the vast majority of Americans. For that reason, leftists lie about their intentions.

Roughly 70% of Americans would kick the United Nations out of the United States and withdraw totally from the UN today. That number would go up dramatically if more Americans knew the UN is attempting to form it's own army, gain control over the seas, over the airspace over nations and over space, in addition to gaining control over all energy use on the planet. They are also trying to disarm all the nations on earth and disarm all citizens, including Americans.

There is no lie leftists won't tell, no hypocrisy which is beneath them, no corruption in which they will not engage and no treason they will not commit to bring about their dream of a socialist gulag run by the United Nations.

The US must be destroyed or neutralized for this to happen and leftists know it. Leftists will continue to denigrate the United States, glorify and magnify every enemy and heap scorn and ridicule and vent their rage on anyone or any group who oppose them.

Given the history on earth of socialist-communist governments, leftists are certifiably insane.

Leftists say they're for peace but one must know what the communist definition of peace is.

A state of peace will exist when everyone who opposes communists and communism has been killed. They killed about 200,000,000 of their own citizens who opposed them, not before they took control but after.

Their tools are lies, class warfare, envy and subversion from within.

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pidaua
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posted June 15, 2006 04:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pidaua     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I couldn't have said it better myself jwhop.

The liberals pretend to have the best interest of the population at hand, if only the knew the liberal mantra "do what I say, not what I do".

There is no depth the liberal won't sink to "huh, you don't want gay marriage so that means you hate all gay people. " They don't seem to get the fact that a majority of the gay population is absolutely fine with a "civil" union without having to change "marriage"

That isn't good enough for the lefties because it doesn't cause enough strife. Have they really worked, lived, broken bread with the gay population to ask what they want? Nope, they just "assume" what is best for that population.

The same holds true with abortion. If you are pro-life, then you hate women and want to force them to breed like an animal. But if you are anti-life and pro-abortion you are just doing what is best for females around the world and allowing them to chose.

Why is one way wrong and another right? Why am I challenged for not "going against my conservative grain" but they are not challenged for going against "the liberal mantra's"?

Why are we the ones that are always asked to make the changes "take prayer out of School, no references to God in public offices, prove you are Christian, don't support the war, hate your Military, support the UN over the US etc..." The list goes on- if one is Liberal, which is defined as

"Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.
Liberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. "


Why can't they open their minds to beliefs other than their own? It is as Ann Coulter says, they are a church unto their own. Anything that is godless, goes against the grain of tradition or convention, excessive behaviour of one sort of another is what they subscribe to and always will.

Until what? What happens when we have forced our Country to live by their rules? You're right, we turn into a socialistic chasm devoid of any conscious where we murder people that don't fall in line and the few will be rich and these idiots that think liberalism / socialism / communism is the way of the future will be waiting in a 4 hours line hoping to get loaf of bread. But hey, they will have universal health care- aspirin and bandaids anyone?

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proxieme
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posted June 15, 2006 04:40 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Edited to add: I wrote and intended to post this immediately after pid's initial complaint post, but my goofy internet's been spotty.

That's kind of a low blow, pid - I, for one, haven't responded because I

a) Kind of have a life that's going on right now and have just been flitting on and off this site.

b) Have been steering away from GU because it seems, at best, a horribly toxic place.
My damn chest clinches up every time I visit.

And, yes, I support the troops - I'm married to a WO, enlisted as a 98G at the age of 18, and have the great majority of my friends in the Army or in some way associated with it, ferchrissake. I see the daily hardships that they go through, and I see their intense pride in serving and love for the country. I feel it, too.
And, yet somehow I'm able to hold those thoughts and feelings and still think that both the purpose and (especially intitial) handling of the War in Iraq was wrongheaded at best, misleading at worst in the case of the latter.

Edited to add: Maybe some didn't respond because they were afraid that this thread would be morphed into a "Love It or Leave It" sermon implying that those who aren't die-hard conservatives or neo-cons are patently un-American or into a "I'm more patriotic than you" -fest.
For the record, that's why I stay away from some of the more inflammatory postings - I hate to see libbies and cons duking it out over the moral high ground.
Whatever happened to intelligent, thoughtful people being able to disagree with one another?

Edited to also add: Now I'm surprised that no one's responded to my "Al-Q. Tried to Instigate US/Iran War" thread.

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pidaua
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posted June 15, 2006 04:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pidaua     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Ummm.. prox.. maybe you could have taken 5 minutes to read my posts before you went off. I said in my second post

"How it is people can complain about the war, yet post all these horrid stories of a hungry Marine or a Soldier that dies in Oklahoma- proclaiming that they only have the interest of our boys and girls serving our Country at hand- yet only three of us (I know some couldn't post because they are not around, busy or haven't seen it yet) actually posted?"


Key sentence "I KNOW some COULDN'T post because they are not around, BUSY or haven't seen it YET"

Next time read a bit before you get defensive and let in to me and start assuming you know where this thread is heading. I would expect that from TP / and a few others.

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pidaua
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posted June 15, 2006 04:49 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pidaua     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
And I won't get into a battle comparing who knows more people in the Army or who's husband / fiance has a higher rank etc.. that is stupid and if that's what your looking for, I won't play that game.

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Venusian Love
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posted June 15, 2006 04:58 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
And I won't get into a battle comparing who knows more people in the Army or who's husband / fiance has a higher rank etc.. that is stupid and if that's what your looking for, I won't play that game.


Paranoid.

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pidaua
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posted June 15, 2006 05:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pidaua     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hey guttersnipe-troll cyper stalker. Don't you have anything better to do? Don't you have some kind of life where you could do something more beneficial?

Maybe you can expand on why you make your decisions. Some call you succinct (which I doubt you can even pronounce) but I think your really just "dumb" and like a child you blurt things out.

Come back when you have something to offer other than BS here and there.

Stalker

VL's moods experienced every 30 minutes or so:

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proxieme
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posted June 15, 2006 06:20 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
pid - Did you edit that?

I didn't even see that quote (the part in parantheses) when I first read your post (I think right after you posted it).
If I completely missed it, I'm sorry.

My post was going off of the what I read to say, "Those who've posted so far are the only ones here who care about soldiers."
The reply was mostly in anger at what I read sans parantheses.

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