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2015-09-15 Home Front: Culture Wars

Chow photo approved by Fort Bliss Public Affairs and Garrison Command.

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-09-15 04:18|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 ISIS are deserting in droves. Putin hides under his bed.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-09-15 06:03|| 2015-09-15 06:03|| Front Page Top

#2 I like it. Not Combat Ready, but what the hell?

Makes me have some hope for a more human world. THAT actually is who and what we are fighting FOR> for what we really love and would be willing to die for.

I can remember my own mother hitching a ride on a troop ship six days out when I was four and she was carrying my little brother. The war was almost over and she wasn't waiting for my Dad to come home...she was going to where he was and he had promised to be waiting when that ship came in fluff replacements. And holding her hand seeing the tears running down her face because she couldn't see him in the crowd of soldiers waiting to transit home....even though he was there. And my dad had brought a Lei made out of candy for me and a Lei of Orchids for my Mom. And I had never seen him before, but he was my Dad. And we had a bomb shelter in the back yard and i started first grade in a quonset hut in sight of the runway. And there were acres and acres of graves in the Punchbowl Crater before they were shipped back to the States. Too many dead to ship back all at once my Dad said.
I didn't know anything about God. But I worshipped my Father when I was small. He was a good man. And I remember my little brother nursing when I was "too big" for a high chair and resented a crib bed when we were in the Philippines when Truman ran against Dewey.
And I remember later going to school in Occupied Japan..

All those memories flooding back seeing these women in uniform...being mothers.

Posted by Tiny Snins1607 2015-09-15 08:26|| 2015-09-15 08:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Anyone one who wants breasts exposed in public is a pervert.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2015-09-15 09:01|| 2015-09-15 09:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Michelangelo to the courtesy phone.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-09-15 09:07|| 2015-09-15 09:07|| Front Page Top

Sadly, I foresee additional F-35 cost overruns.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-09-15 09:33|| 2015-09-15 09:33|| Front Page Top

#6 I guess a letter to Stars and Stripes voicing their support was to blasé.

Posted by Threatle Grundy2774 2015-09-15 09:41|| 2015-09-15 09:41|| Front Page Top

#7 I can remember my own mother hitching a ride on a troop ship six days out when I was four and she was carrying my little brother.

This seems inconsistent with my knowledge of the period, though I could be wrong.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-09-15 11:43|| 2015-09-15 11:43|| Front Page Top

#8 To show my solidarity with these brave women, I will go over there to be photographed breast feeding with them, too.

Posted by gorb 2015-09-15 12:57|| 2015-09-15 12:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Non-deployable.

Who gets to take their place?

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-09-15 14:55|| 2015-09-15 14:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Yes, stand at ease Corporal Smith. Let us start at the beginning please. You were absent from duty yesterday afternoon and late for formation this morning because your what hurts....?

Posted by Besoeker 2015-09-15 15:01|| 2015-09-15 15:01|| Front Page Top

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