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Air Force Appreciation Day
Posted Saturday, September 6, 2008, at 9:08 AM<< Previous | Read comments | Respond | Email link | Next >>
Well, it's September 6th. I got up about an hour ago and it's almost 8:AM. Played music with Curly Surles last night and prior to that, I got "Herbie" all cleaned up and ready for the Parade today.
I'll eternally proud of my Marine background, but I want to say publicly that when I was in Vietnam, nothing ever looked better than a wave of B-52's overhead, "serving lunch" to the NVA. At Khe Sanh where we were surrounded by nearly 40,000 communist troops from time to time, we also knew that when needed, F-4 Phantoms from the 3rd Marine Air Wing were only about 6 minutes away.
I don't remember who said that "no victory on the ground is sure, without control of the air" but whoever said that was probably right.
I remember the Huey gunships, Medivac choppers, and Skyraiders. I particularly recall the late night flights overhead of the old C-47 gunships we called "Puff the Magic Dragon, with its infared guided miniguns.
The Phantoms. If there was ever a jet that could do it all, and do it all WELL, it was the F-4. From recon to MIG-killing, and a myriad of things in-between including service with BOTH the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels. My most vivid memories of that plane were up at Khe Sanh, watching our 3rd Marine Air Wing pilots roar down through the valleys, almost into the WEEDS sometimes, spitting 20mm's out of it's gun, dropping 250-pounders and "Nape", lighting the afterburners and spiraling up and out for another run. They came in low and fast....it was a spectacle of reality, a live performance of sound and fury.
Well, I don't want to get into war stories, but just to say thanks to all of you jet jocks out there who keep doing what you do best.
Well, parade starts in a couple of hours. I'd better shower and get dressed and get my little "Herbie Bug" down there for its 3rd run down American Legion. My oldest grand daughter usually rides with me, helping me toss candy out the windows, but she'll be in a cheerleading group this morning, and this year my "shotgun rider" will be a 4-year old I've never met. He's the grandson of a lady my wife works with at Wal-Mart, and as I understand it, he's be sitting on his mom's lap (who I've never met either).
It'll be an interesting morning. There's a gunshow going on in Nampa today as well, but I doubt there'll really be any time left to go. There's a bigger one at the Boise Fairgrounds later this month though, and I DEFINITELY plan to make that one.
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Hope it went very well for you today! Way to go Mike.
what time did you play last night......... mom and the gang went out until about 8 last night night...... Linda came and hung out at the car but then they left...........
oh yea, I have pics of Herbie today........... it was fun to see it in the parade...... so cool
I got there around 7:35, and played until 11:00
Mike, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to participate in the recently held AFAD activities. It really takes an entire community to make an event this large happen. We gratefully appreciate your participation.
Best wishes,
Your welcome.........but for the last 2 years, I've been wanting to drive my old 56 Oldsmobile in it. I keep getting shot down though, because the kids always want to see "Herbie." I think what I'll do NEXT year is have my WIFE drive the bug, and I'll drive the Olds!
There you go, sounds like a good plan. I'll look forward to seeing the new parade addition.
Best wishes,
You just pointed out what's wrong with America, with that blog buddy. Killing and car worship. The strange and ugly beauty people find in murderous wars and meaningless objects. People died wrongly on both sides so lets celebrate the chaos with candy and cars. Yip, yip! The American dream is an ugly and vain thing that will destroy us all. Guns and auto's, candy and tanks. What a lovely ideal to give the children of this fallen nation.
How do you get to Boise, Jacknife? On foot or on a bicycle? You wouldn't drive some filthy car, now would ya?
And just for the record, slick, if it WEREN'T for guns and men with the guts to use them, YOU wouldn't be able to get on this website, or anywhere ELSE and freely speak your mind.
I agree........War has never solved ANYTHING.........except slavery, tyranny, oppression, genocide and world domination.
Finally, since you seem to side with Michelle Obama, and think we're all so ugly and hateful, don't let the door hit you in the butt on your way out.
Michael Savage said it best....."Liberalism is a mental disorder."
PS to "Jacknife"
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
If you can read it in ENGLISH, thank a Veteran.
For one thing, I live in Boise. Another is that I walk or ride a bike if I need anything. And guns and guts didn't create computers or the Internet. And as for guns and guts giving freedom of speech, that is a fallacy. If you look deeper into the history of America, not the b.s. history they teach at school, You'd realize all the wars, revaluations, civil-wars at the beginning weren't to give the common man freedoms. But to raise the status of the rich. More land, more money, more power. The poor and working class were/are just pawns sent to the slaughter in the name of cash/power. And just for the record there still is slavery in the U.S. In 2006, after hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans, a company called Signal International recruited "Guest Workers" from India. Some of them were forced here, others threatened and some paid $20,000 to this company because S.I. promised them a new life here in the U.S.A. They were helping with the cleanup of New Orleans. They had to live in labor camps where they lived 25 to a small room. This company never paid them. And if they complained they were threatened, beat, and imprisoned on company grounds. They finally escaped march of 2008 and made their way to Washington DC to bring some kind of punishment to Signal and other company's in the America's that use these same tactics. So gun's stopped slavery? Not a chance, they just hide it behind other terms. Genocide, lets think about that one for a second. America was pretty much built on genocide or something pretty close to it. Think bubb, the Native Americans. We pretty much decimated those people with our greed to EXPAND. And they still suffer to this day. Oppression is still here if you'd open your eye's. And World Domination is what the American Government and the Corporations want. But like Rome, this will surely fall. But it won't be the World leaders that suffer, the rich won't suffer, it'll be us poor and working class that will be sent to the fire's and front lines.
And you know something if I had the money and proper passport I would leave. But at the moment I'd have to scale some damned fence protecting some "Imagined Border."
Read a book, I'll even suggest a couple: A People's History of America By Howard Zinn. Actually one book is probably more then enough for a guy that wields a bazooka. Hell, You'd just burn it anyway so forget it.
For one thing, I live in Boise. Another is that I walk or ride a bike if I need anything. And guns and guts didn't create computers or the Internet. And as for guns and guts giving freedom of speech, that is a fallacy. If you look deeper into the history of America, not the b.s. history they teach at school, You'd realize all the wars, revolutions, civil-wars at the beginning weren't to give the common man freedoms. But to raise the status of the rich. More land, more money, more power. The poor and working class were/are just pawns sent to the slaughter in the name of cash/power. And just for the record there still is slavery in the U.S. In 2006, after hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans, a company called Signal International recruited "Guest Workers" from India. Some of them were forced here, others threatened and some paid $20,000 to this company because S.I. promised them a new life here in the U.S.A. They were helping with the cleanup of New Orleans. They had to live in labor camps where they lived 25 to a small room. This company never paid them. And if they complained they were threatened, beat, and imprisoned on company grounds. They finally escaped march of 2008 and made their way to Washington DC to bring some kind of punishment to Signal and other company's in the America's that use these same tactics. So gun's stopped slavery? Not a chance, they just hide it behind other terms. Genocide, lets think about that one for a second. America was pretty much built on genocide or something pretty close to it. Think bubb, the Native Americans. We pretty much decimated those people with our greed to EXPAND. And they still suffer to this day. Oppression is still here if you'd open your eye's. And World Domination is what the American Government and the Corporations want. But like Rome, this will surely fall. But it won't be the World leaders that suffer, the rich won't suffer, it'll be us poor and working class that will be sent to the fire's and front lines.
And you know something if I had the money and proper passport I would leave. But at the moment I'd have to scale some damned fence protecting some "Imagined Border."
Read a book, I'll even suggest a couple: A People's History of America By Howard Zinn. Actually one book is probably more then enough for a guy that wields a bazooka. Hell, You'd just burn it anyway so forget it.
Yeah, you're right. I probably WOULD burn it. The only thing I want to read is a headline that says we're deporting all the illegals out of here, and the liberals right along with them.
So you live in Boise, eh?.........."IA" land........that explains a lot of it.
PS..........let me guess..........you're supporting the anti-American Muslim for President. Our brilliant young speech-maker who, when confronted with tough issues, doesn't vote "yea" or "nay"..............doesn't vote "for" or "against."
..............votes "PRESENT!"
The same one who took a $126,000 donation from Fannie Mae.
Naw....you probably don't even vote at all. Easier to protest than try to change anything.
You don't need a lot of money to live across the border. The average mexican lives on about $4.00 a day down there.
Don't need a passport, either. You just walk right on across like everybody else, and since you'd be going in the DESIRED direction, I'm quite sure the Border Patrol won't hassle you a bit. Adios!
Nope I'm voting anarcho-socialism. Besides Obama is not a Muslim he was a Baptist last time I checked. You need to dig deeper into your hat and find the straight facts. And almost all our elected officials except money from industries one time or another. They are all crooks in my book, especially Reagan. Hope that's okay to say in this FREE country?! But whatever, I most definitely vote, not that it even matters anymore what with electoral colleges pretty much making the final decision on who wins and only two choices to chose from the same damn coin. The American Dream is dead and so is true democracy. We live in the shadows of it's gravestone. This isn't what your parents or my grandparents were raised to believe in. If they were alive today they would protest and riot like the old Unions used to do to get things back under-control. But the youth and middle age citizens of this country have become automatons that can't see what is happening around them. They are to infatuated with guns, sex, violence, cars, clothes and drugs to pull off the blinders. T.V. has cast it's spell and mesmerised the nation into believing that we still have a real democratic society. But whatever lets let it burn. Ya dig? Oh and here's another thing I believe, religion is just another leash to keep us from revolting against the lies. But that's neither here nor there. I just wanted to get ya going in other directions. Sorry if I've offended you. Truly. And I think I will head to Mexico, at least then I wouldn't have to put up with ignorant red necks. Yee haw. Talk to ya later sport.
P.s. I used to live in Mtn. Home. For most of my childhood. So ya might understand why I'm against your blind patriotism. Good day to you sir. See I respect My elders even though they might be crazy.
much love,
the knife 08'
Oh and another thing. I'm sure your family wasn't native born to this country originally. They more then likely came from Poland or Germany. So that being said. Who has more rights to be here? The people that lived here well before we showed up or a blasted nazi bonehead that came here below the deck of a ship? I say that Lovingly.
Blind Patriotism? I think not. If you've read my articles in the newspapers and on this blog long enough, you'd know I do NOT support the government as it stands today. I love this country but definitely do NOT trust the idiots in charge, which is why I'm working so hard trying to keep Obama OUT.
On more than one occasion, I have publicly stated that nothing short of a revolt is going to change anything.
I agree with you about the native Americans. They SHOULD have priority. I also do NOT have a problem with immigration. Most of us have foreign lineage of some kind.
But if you've noticed at all, there are terrorist factions trying to kill us now, and we NEED to know WHO is crossing our borders. That's my main beef with the ILLEGAL aliens.. I don't care if the first 4 guys are Juan, Jose, Pablo and Octavio....looking for a job. I just want to make sure that the FIFTH guy behind them isn't Akim Ackboud carrying dynamite and a few grenades.
If they want to live here, let them become CITIZENS the same way OUR ancestors did. I don't think that's some sort of "unreasonable, do you?
We have an estimated 12 million illegals here now.
Are they ALL job-seeking Mexicans? How do we know that? And we NEED to know that, if you can still remember 9/11.
No, certainly not, you haven't offended me in the least. Until the Democrats are running it all, this is still a free country, and you have every right to say what you think.
Somewhere down the road, when the "men in black" start kicking in doors (and it WILL happen), I'm just gonna be one of those "Crazy gun-loving radicals" who ISN'T going to just roll over, give it up and say "Peace, my brothers...."
The Feds are in for a rude awakening, if they ever try turning America into a police state. There are untold thousands of us "rednecks" as you call us, that are more than willing to die on our feet, rather than live on our knees.
You'll like it in Mexico, Jacknife. It's cheap to live there, it's not overcrowded because they're all coming HERE now, and NO GUNS!!! (except of course for the police and the bandits) Mexican subjects (notice I don't say "citizens"), are not allowed to own firearms of any type to protect themselves from robbers.
I know YOU wouldn't have a problem with THAT. Besides, I understand they use the "honor system" down there. Before breaking into your hacienda and killing you for your wristwatch, they are required to announce themselves, giving you at least an hour or two (depending on where you live) to call the cops and ask for help.
Have a good time!