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by rgrokelley
July 1st, 2014, 9:26 pm
Forum: The Mosh Pit
Topic: Price paid for signing the Declaration of Independence
Replies: 7
Views: 2310

Re: Price paid for signing the Declaration of Independence

Hate to be Captain Buzzkill, but most of that is wrong. Out here in the historian world that whole article has been myth busted repeatedly. Some folks attribute it to Paul Harvey and Rush Limbaugh swears his dad wrote it. I know most of you don't trust snopes, but this article on snopes was written ...
by rgrokelley
May 25th, 2014, 10:38 am
Forum: The Mosh Pit
Topic: Memorial Day
Replies: 47
Views: 22650

Re: Memorial Day

No one here thinks this, but I thought it was a good meme...
by rgrokelley
May 25th, 2014, 10:31 am
Forum: The Mosh Pit
Topic: Memorial Day
Replies: 47
Views: 22650

Re: Memorial Day

Annual Bump From time to time I write on other websites, trying to inform those who are not in the military about the world we live in. This commentary wsa written in 2002, the first Memorial Day after September 11th. Tonight I sat with my buddy, Bert, and we talked of many things. Point of Fork, A...
by rgrokelley
April 14th, 2014, 2:12 pm
Forum: The Mosh Pit
Topic: Washington's Spies and Roger's Rangers
Replies: 17
Views: 6746

Re: Washington's Spies and Roger's Rangers

Puck is involved in this. You might see him in the background from time to time.
by rgrokelley
February 19th, 2014, 3:56 am
Forum: The Mosh Pit
Topic: Bode Miller asked over and over about dead brother
Replies: 7
Views: 2664

Re: Bode Miller asked over and over about dead brother

You mean the same NBC that praised communism in the Soviet Union as one of history's pivotal experiments?

http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2014/02/0 ... communism/
by rgrokelley
February 17th, 2014, 4:17 am
Forum: Good Humor Popsicle Zone
Topic: This cracked me up
Replies: 11
Views: 6021

Re: This cracked me up

Back in the early 1990s, Special Forces and SEALs did some training missions in UAE. At that time we were one of the first military units to do so and were mainly there to build rapport with the country so that we could get a larger foot in the door. While we were there we did some desert navigation...
by rgrokelley
February 15th, 2014, 7:39 am
Forum: News, Politics, and Policy
Topic: US Army War College considers removing Confederate portraits
Replies: 21
Views: 15342

Re: US Army War College considers removing Confederate portr

I especially like this qoute from the Allen West link above: "If there were a portrait of Nathan Bedford Forest, I would have a different assessment, since he was instrumental — along with Democrats, lest we forget — in establishing the Ku Klux Klan." Read more at http://allenbwest.com/20...
by rgrokelley
February 15th, 2014, 7:25 am
Forum: Ranger, SOF and Military News
Topic: SFC Petry to Retire
Replies: 18
Views: 7507

Re: SFC Petry to Retire

SFC Petry, what's the most memorable moment in your career? Well, I was going through RIP, and this mortarman beat me during combatives. But I knew he was real Ranger material then, so I felt good coming in second. I can still feel that choke to this day. In fact, it was the same arm I tried to blo...
by rgrokelley
January 7th, 2014, 6:22 am
Forum: Good Humor Popsicle Zone
Topic: Random thought of the moment.
Replies: 5221
Views: 1614019

Re: Random thought of the moment.

My students always wonder what I think is cold, whenever I hear them sniveling about being outside and it is 40 degrees.

Well, today is cold. 7 degrees in Fort Bragg.

I could do a joke about global warming but it is too cold for that.

Fuck it.
by rgrokelley
January 7th, 2014, 6:20 am
Forum: News, Politics, and Policy
Topic: Al-Qaeda militants seize much of Fallujah
Replies: 12
Views: 10623

Re: Al-Qaeda militants seize much of Fallujah

As the years pass the more I feel as though The invasion of Iraq was a poor decision. Ya think? Pros - we killed a shit load of terrorists and wannabe terrorists (even got the boogie man of the 1980s, Abu Nidal) also pro, we got rid of a super douche who made me miss Christmas four years in a row a...
by rgrokelley
January 2nd, 2014, 4:23 pm
Forum: News, Politics, and Policy
Topic: US Army War College considers removing Confederate portraits
Replies: 21
Views: 15342

Re: US Army War College considers removing Confederate portr

The KKK was formed in 1866 by six former Confederates in Pulaski, TN (some sources say December 1865). The first KKK was formed as a “good ole boys” club more than a threat. To put it in the words of one of the original founders, Captain John Lester, “let's start something to break this monotony, an...
by rgrokelley
January 2nd, 2014, 4:22 pm
Forum: News, Politics, and Policy
Topic: US Army War College considers removing Confederate portraits
Replies: 21
Views: 15342

Re: US Army War College considers removing Confederate portr

Before I post a rather long answer, let me give you my bonafides. This is not Wikipedia research (and I still wonder where the fuck did that come from?) this is also not from the Sons of Confederate Veterans. I could belong to them many times over, but I have better things to do... however, just to ...
by rgrokelley
January 2nd, 2014, 1:24 pm
Forum: News, Politics, and Policy
Topic: US Army War College considers removing Confederate portraits
Replies: 21
Views: 15342

Re: US Army War College considers removing Confederate portr

He almost whipped the North's ass. In fact, he did whip the North's ass on various occasions. Lee should stand as a paradigm for the maxim, "history's only crime is losing". As to a portrait of Nathan Bedford Forrest gracing War College wall space, well, I can certainly see where that mig...
by rgrokelley
December 23rd, 2013, 9:57 pm
Forum: News, Politics, and Policy
Topic: US Army War College considers removing Confederate portraits
Replies: 21
Views: 15342

Re: US Army War College considers removing Confederate portr

He almost whipped the North's ass. In fact, he did whip the North's ass on various occasions. Lee should stand as a paradigm for the maxim, "history's only crime is losing". As to a portrait of Nathan Bedford Forrest gracing War College wall space, well, I can certainly see where that mig...
by rgrokelley
December 18th, 2013, 1:17 pm
Forum: News, Politics, and Policy
Topic: US Army War College considers removing Confederate portraits
Replies: 21
Views: 15342

Re: US Army War College considers removing Confederate portr

“Dear Mr. President: “At the Republican Convention I heard you mention that you have the pictures of four (4) great Americans in your office, and that included in these is a picture of Robert E. Lee. “I do not understand how any American can include Robert E. Lee as a person to be emulated, and why...

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