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Holy moly! That was named sure worth fighting for!

Holy moly! That was damned sure worth fighting for!

I don't remember seeing this hottie on the Donna Reed Show!

>>"she looked forward to a time when '19-year-old boys will no longer be taken away to fight in old men's battles.' "<<

Amen for Donna Reed.

As this is Memorial Day for honoring the fallen. perhaps Nov 25 can be Chickenhawk Day.

The 101st Fighting Chickens
-Karl Rove, occasional Deputy Chief of Staff
-VP Dick Cheney - several deferments, by marriage and timely fatherhood
-Former VP Chief of Staff I. Lewis Scooter Libby - did not serve
-Secretary of State and former NSA Condaleeza Rice - did not serve
-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - did not serve.
-Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - did not serve.
-Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay - did not serve
-House Majority Whip Roy Blunt - did not serve
-Majority Whip Mitch McConnell - did not serve
-Rick Santorum, third ranking Republican in the Senate - did not serve.
-Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott - did not serve

-Rush Limbaugh - did not serve
-Sean Hannity - did not serve
-Pat Buchanan - did not serve
-Joe Scarborough - did not serve
-Ann Coulter - did not serve
-Ralph Reed - did not serve
-Bill O'Reilly - did not serve
-Michael Savage - did not serve
-Bill Kristol - did not serve
-Charles Krauthammer - did not serve
-Glenn Beck - did not serve
-Michelle Malkin - did not serve
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War Hawk Rep. John Boozman-Veterans Affairs Com.-didn't serve
War Hawk Sen Mark Pryor- didn't serve
Hawk Blanche Lincoln-didn't serve
Blue-dog Hawk Rep.Mike Ross-didn't serve
Blue-dog Hawk Marion Berry, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs,- didn't serve.

* tip of hat to docholliday (5-24)
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Ark's only liberal member of Congress-
In 1967, after two years of college,Vic Snyder volunteered for the United States Marine Corps. He served in Vietnam with Headquarters Company of the US 1st Marine Division during the Vietnam War, attaining the rank of corporal.

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Per Wiki

According to Professor David Blight of the Yale University History Department, the first memorial day was observed in 1865 by liberated slaves at the historic Washington Race Course (today the location of Hampton Park) in Charleston. The site was a former Confederate prison camp as well as a mass grave for Union soldiers who died in captivity.
The freed slaves disinterred the dead Union soldiers from the mass grave to be inhumed properly reposed with individual graves, built a fence around the graveyard with an entry arch, declaring it a Union graveyard. A daring action for freed slaves to take such in the South just shortly after the Union's victory. On May 30, 1868, the freed slaves returned to the graveyard with flowers they had picked from the countryside and decorated the individual gravesites, thereby creating the first Decoration Day. Thousands of freed blacks and Union soldiers paraded from the area, followed by much patriotic singing and a picnic.
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Nowadays we don't even care that our troops are at war in three countries (for an emotion)... all of which are entirely unnecessary... Unless you want to invest in a stolen pipeline route someday or convince yourself this is some kind of religious crusade.

There is only one meaningful way to honor our troops and their families (past, present, and future).. demand they all come home now.

Elwood, Only a dick like you would bring politics into a day like this. Not everyone can serve in the military, but there are many ways to serve one's country. And there are many who given their lives serving. While I'm sure you're a vet or you wouldn't have posted something like this, it none the less cheapens this special day when we celebrate and honor the fallen. You should be ashamed. You take the fun out of blogging and reading this blog.

I strong disagree Nemo. Are we as a nation too stupid to hold 2 thoughts in our head at the same time? We should be calling for our troops return with every breath no matter if we're bending to kiss a baby or marching in an anti-war parade. Today of all days should remind all of us to not GRIND up our young in senseless wars of choice. Donna Reed did her part by entertaining our troops, writing them letters of joy to be read by eyes that would soon be closed on the battlefield.

Donna also did her part by being intelligent enough to know the Vietnam War was only good for killing over 58,000 of us. One of those wasted 58,000 might have found a cure for cancer by now or figured out how to get along with the impossible warring nations of the Middle East. The majority of our WWII veterans know the wars we're fighting are doomed to failure because they were in a real war, fought correctly, for good reasons easily named to this day. Un-winnable quagmires are not what we're celebrating today, though everyone respects the soldiers who were brave enough to serve in those wars we couldn't win.

I'm so very sorry your blog reading pleasure has been diminished. But there are far more important things to think about today just grilling steaks. Like slipping our troops out of places they should never have been sent to in the first place. That is the best way we could remember our fallen heroes, and the best way to make sure no other soldier loses his or her life in vane. Far too often those who have never served happily send others to die in their place. We should remember our chicken hawk warmongers in Congress who ran away from their duty as hard as they've sent good soldiers to die in this war for oil.

I'm also pleased the President Obama laid a special wreath at a memorial for black soldiers of the Civil War. 144 years late is better than nothing.

Nemo, Look up "hypocrisy" someday.

Those who eLwood listed above.. are war mongering hypocrites of the worst order. Of course your (and to many others) inability or unwillingness for whatever reason to make that distinction is a large part of the reason our troops are in needless battle / occupations today ... and have been since Viet Nam. (except perhaps for the valiant battle of Greneda and maybe, just maybe, some of our Yugo action).

Some people would like to end (or at least dramatically reduce) needless body counts on Memorial Day... Which requires looking at the reasons why we continue to do so. What kind of people, politics, and repetition of history, put us in this situation is crucial to understanding.

What better way to honor troops than that?

Hats off, hugs n kisses to all Vets, not only today but every day.............and, Mr. Prez,,,
please bring them all home and stop the madness that Dickhead and his trained monkey
started.
Thank you, Jazzy

Luckily, our brave soldiers died for you to be political assholes no what the circumstances. Did you watch the salute from Washington DC last night? Did you weep as the national orchestra played "Gettysburg?" Or did you start your list making and name calling ? Suck it all of you.

Apparently our friend Nemo is 12 years old. How Patriotic Are You....is an impossible contest and was invented by the Republicans. I love me tons of veterans, I love me some old dead Donna Reed, and I love the AT blog where we have the freedom to discuss any damn thing we want, any ole time we want.

Calling out those who are murdering our kids for oil and demanding our troops be brought home NOW is as patriotic as it gets....you lose the contest, Nemo.

PS Thank you Rep. Vic Snyder for your service to your country.

Read the NY Times article about Donna Reed. That's what it's about, dickweed. Not about spewing your venemous agenda all over this sacred observance. Actually, I'm a bit older than 12. So there, I win. Eat it.

Calling out pussies who ran from military service when they were young, but today send other generations to die for oil = venomous agenda?

Wishing our troops weren't sitting in a meat grinder, wanting them to come home and be safe
= venomous agenda?

Reading the NY Times piece on letters saved by Donna Reed early this morning and comprehending it better than you = venomous agenda?

Seek professional help dear Nemo

>>Elwood, Only a dick like you would bring politics into a day like this. Not everyone can serve in the military, but there are many ways to serve one's country...... You take the fun out of blogging and reading this blog. <<< by Nemo

So your post means adios for Nematode? Great !!

An unnecessary dead solider is everyone's politics, especially those who commanded them to go and yet would not go them selves. Every goddamn Senator and Representative I listed comes away from Congress much wealthier than his/her salary would have provided. War is good bidness, invest your child. Your Congressman needs the wealth.

Dick Cheney drew $150K per year from Haliburton while the draft-dodging sob was negotiating cost-plus Iraqi contracts with them. He was also engineering the pipeline across Kyrgyzstan to be
paid for with U.S. serviceman's blood.

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"I spent thirty-three years and four months in active service in the country's most agile military force, the Marines. I served in all ranks from second Lieutenant to major general. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
Thus I helped make Mexico, and especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the raping of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers and Co. in 1909- 1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras "right" for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
Smedley Butler, USMC, Retired General
Common Sense, November 1935
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Nemo,

eLwood didn't make that list. Darksyde of the Daily Kos did in May, 2006 and I added to it. I reposted his post about Chickenhawks, yesterday, May 24, 2009. Clik (Fourth comment down).

He and I left a couple of names of people who did not serve off the list. Both of us do not consider them Chickenhawks; we do not consider they sent our servicepeople in harm's way for personal aggrandizement, like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. Who are they? President Willian Jefferson Clinton and President Barrack Hussein Obama.

If you want to take someone to task, I started it. I, like Darksyde, do not want a single one of these Chickenhawks, listed or unlisted, to further his hypocrisy and aggrandizement by getting press for being patriotic in participating in public ceremonies today.

Tomorrow, after the day of memorial remembrance is concluded, I will be posting pointers to stories on Rumsfeld and Bush's attitude and justification for invading Iraq as a religious crusade instead of the reasons they gave the U.S. House of Representative, Senate and the U. S. public.

You are welcome to continue to berate me, now and then.
DocHolliday, MM1, RCSS USN 6/1970-6/1976.

If you want to see the price we've paid for Cheney's folly click my blue name and you'll find the faces of those who have fallen in the twin wars we cannot win.

I've been to Dennison, birthplace of Donna Reed. Kinda near Omaha. Got an ethanol plant, a fair number of corn silos. Also a miniature Wal Mart on the north end of town. I don't think there's a billboard or city limit sign talking about Donna. But if you drive thru Mt. Vernon Texas you will spot a faded blue sign noting the birthplace of Dandy Don Meredith...and there's a DDM museum there somewhere, near the back of the Quick Stop.

Now that we know where this pioneer American Idol hailed from, can't we just imagine the homerisms the Dennizens came up with if they were anything like us arkies going apeshit over whatsisname... "Hey, all these soldiers who ordered her pinup...they're going to want to live in Dennison once they get out of the service. Donna lived here ten years ago, why wouldn't they want to bring their RVs here as soon as RVs are invented???"

Conway, go ahead and order some pre-faded city limit placards touting that you were home of Axciom and Kris, as both will be faded away themselves in the not too distant future. Especially if that Mayan Calendar thang is right.

I've been to Dennison, birthplace of Donna Reed. Kinda near Omaha. Got an ethanol plant, a fair number of corn silos. Also a miniature Wal Mart on the north end of town. I don't think there's a billboard or city limit sign talking about Donna. But if you drive thru Mt. Vernon Texas you will spot a faded blue sign noting the birthplace of Dandy Don Meredith...and there's a DDM museum there somewhere, near the back of the Quick Stop.

Now that we know where this pioneer American Idol hailed from, can't we just imagine the homerisms the Dennizens came up with if they were anything like us arkies going apeshit over whatsisname... "Hey, all these soldiers who ordered her pinup...they're going to want to live in Dennison once they get out of the service. Donna lived here ten years ago, why wouldn't they want to bring their RVs here as soon as RVs are invented???"

Conway, go ahead and order some pre-faded city limit placards touting that you were home of Axciom and Kris, as both will be faded away themselves in the not too distant future. Especially if that Mayan Calendar thang is right.