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2004-07-09 Home Front: WoT

Veteran gets rude welcome on Bainbridge (via Drudge)

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Posted by war46 2004-07-09 16:11|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Oh yes...those militant republican women in their red, white and blue. I'm sure the folks in Bainbridge would've felt right at home with a parade of brownshirts.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-07-09 8:07:25 PM|| 2004-07-09 8:07:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I've never been confronted w/derision while wearing my uniform at home or in the airport by any LLL morons. Of course most of my travel is from the Carolinas to Detroit and back. There is always a few folks who will shake my hand - usually other vets and old ladies. I also tend to travel w/my wife and son in tow - so I'd be highly surprised if someone would be that stupid to try to confront a Marine in front of his wife & kid. It figures that this guy would get taunted by a bunch of pussies in a crowd where they think they're safe. Typical pussy tactics by pussies.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-07-09 8:59:00 PM|| 2004-07-09 8:59:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 I salute military personnel, especially active-duty/reserve ones who've/are serving, when I see them ... noted "Semper Fi" to a Marine I met at my school ...

Posted by Edward Yee 2004-07-09 9:38:04 PM|| [http://edwardyee.fanworks.net] 2004-07-09 9:38:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Liberal-minded tolerance - what an oxymoron. Emphasis on the moron.

I never met any of these losers either. In fact, when travelling between duty stations I don't recall ever having to pay for a bite to eat at the airports. Often an old-timer or a family with a child in boot camp would intervene, and I'd get some good conversation as well. People in Chicago, Detroit, and Minneapolis were especially nice.

Posted by BH 2004-07-09 11:11:24 PM|| 2004-07-09 11:11:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Jamieson's a LLL columnist for ~~Puget Pravda~~ the Seattle P-I. I'm surprised to the point of shock that the bastard crawled out from under Baghdad Jim McDermott's desk long enough to write even this limp criticism of his fellow moonbats.

I have the misfortune of living on Bainbridge Island, amongst all these fashionably-leftist assholes. Most of the population consists of ex-hippies and radicals who went to law school, joined blue-chip firms in Seattle and got rich, but never gave up the LLL politics. It's like Marin County with a heavier cloud cover.

The local media NEEDS to get lots of letters on this issue - the name of the Bainbridge 2x/week paper is the "Bainbridge Review", and they have a website. The executive director of the Bainbridge Chamber of Commerce also gave a half-assed "explanation" of the incident which was more of a justification, saying that this poor disabled vet was a representative of President Bush (and essentially DESERVED the abuse he got). Give the CoC a little blast as well - I sure as hell intend to.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2004-07-10 1:45:14 AM|| 2004-07-10 1:45:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 http://www.bainbridgereview.com

Here's the link to the local paper. Also has a link to the Chamber of Commerce.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2004-07-10 1:52:30 AM|| 2004-07-10 1:52:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Thank you for the heads up, Ricky. You bet I'm going to send a scathing letter to the editor about this shameful incident. My heart goes out to the soldier.

Posted by rex 2004-07-10 2:05:09 AM|| 2004-07-10 2:05:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Natural selection is not working fast enough in the Island of Bainbridge. Somebody should help mother nature speed up the process.

Posted by Anonymous4724 2004-07-10 3:25:22 AM|| 2004-07-10 3:25:22 AM|| Front Page Top

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