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#4054442 - 12/22/14 11:25 AM
Re: 25 years ago
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Thanks for the reminder Jayhawk, and again....thanks for your service OG. Thread cleaned up. Please keep politics and controversial agendas out of the Community hall. Sorry for the interruption. Thanks 
"Murphy's Law"
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#4054458 - 12/22/14 12:34 PM
Re: 25 years ago
[Re: oldgrognard]
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Thanks for serving, OG. Many will never understand. Some will.
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#4054464 - 12/22/14 01:08 PM
Re: 25 years ago
[Re: oldgrognard]
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I'm not american, I'm from Catalonia, but I still say thank you for all who served, nd that incluides you OG.
-Sir in case of retreat, were we have to retreat??
-To the Graveyard!!
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#4054471 - 12/22/14 01:32 PM
Re: 25 years ago
[Re: oldgrognard]
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Service and honor of that service know no languages or borders, Stratos. They are all one and the same.
"A little luck & a little government is necessary to get by, but only a fool places his complete trust in either one." - PJ O'Rourke www.sixmanfootball.com
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#4054477 - 12/22/14 01:39 PM
Re: 25 years ago
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I did not post to make any political statement. It was just the 25th anniversary of a combat operation I was involved in. I was just commenting on how quickly time goes by and we are left with our memories. Our past. It was late, I was being nostalgic, and had opened a bottle of scotch I had reserved for the anniversary. I regret it. It allowed some to get on a political soapbox. Not the correct place for it. Nice display of empathy and understanding. Shame. So, this scotch... How long has it been sitting on your shelf? And glad you have survived "civvy life" long enough to share the story.  (I don't think you should regret posting this on the forums, after all, freedom of speech!)
Its not the bullet with your name on it you have to worry about.
But the one addressed:
"To Whom It May Concern"
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#4054625 - 12/22/14 07:28 PM
Re: 25 years ago
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I did not post to make any political statement. It was just the 25th anniversary of a combat operation I was involved in. I was just commenting on how quickly time goes by and we are left with our memories. Our past. It was late, I was being nostalgic, and had opened a bottle of scotch I had reserved for the anniversary. I regret it. It allowed some to get on a political soapbox. Not the correct place for it. Nice display of empathy and understanding. Shame. My apologies OG for taking your post into a political thinking. I really appreciate the service you went through in this operation.
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#4054678 - 12/22/14 09:17 PM
Re: 25 years ago
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Thank you for your service OG, it is much appreciated, and you are a class act sir, I have learned a lot from reading your posts.
All right, sweethearts, what are you waiting for? Breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the corps! A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal's a banquet! Every paycheck a fortune! Every formation a parade! I LOVE the corps!
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#4054686 - 12/22/14 09:32 PM
Re: 25 years ago
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Time passes so quickly. It doesn't seem so long ago that 25 years ago, right now, I was part of the Invasion of Panama. In an airplane in the dark. The lines of tracers, the noises, the colors in the dark, going through the procedures and duies in myhead. It doesn't seem so long ago. Rather nostalgic and a bit drunk sitting here with some momentos and equipment. Wife is asleep. She doesn't truly understand who and what I was then. She didn't know me then. My family is unable to make the connection. To them it is getting ready for Christmas. They know, but only in a disconnected way. My past. Old comrades are with me. Thoughts of then. Remembering it all. I had the same recollection recently... But a little different... I was bathed in blue light, sitting in the cold Sonar Shack of an LA boat... Operation Just Cause was about to kick off... We were scheduled to make a delivery 2 days prior and a pickup one day later, with signals recon in between... It didn't quite go as planned. But I still remember the fear that was in me... I was only 19... Almost 20 at the time... It was right after the big San Fran quake... Really erie thinking about it, and the light pickup we made on Day 3... -Skater
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