God Bless Our Hero's

Yeah! Whooo!

Lets use crippled vets to sell our product!
Huzzah!

Thats almost as vulture/ghoul opportunistic & schitty as that hick-music vendor that sang: "Nine...'Levin"

Nothing like capitalizing off the misery and mutilation of our servicemen to make a cracker feel proud I guess.

Maybe we should boost the VA budget and provide advanced VA services instead of using them as circus freaks to sell a corporate product...but that might raise taxes...

Oh, But hey, according to GOP cheerleader Hankster, I'm just a Lefty Looney, so don't listen to me. I'm just being facetious.

It must suck to be irie

What the [censored] are you talking about?

Seems to me that you would want a testimonial from someone that has benefited from a charity.

As a Vietnam Vet I salute you.

Salute !

And the winner of the 1st Annual of the Week Award goes to.....

Irie!!!!!!

Worlds biggest douche award goes to Irie

Irie? Not even close.

World's Biggest Douche Award would have to go to someone like Kim Jong-il, Bush, Chavez, or some other bone headed world leader that shoved their own head up their ass. It's too early to include Obama at this point - but one never know who will be in the running 4 years from now....

Saddam was a good candidate until his head fell off.

The Iranian leader would have to get some votes, too. He's really a douche.

Mr. Adkins asks as he sings, "I hope I didn't die in vain." Of course you didn't die you flatulating sphincter, you're on stage singing. You have no right to sing in the first person as if you were a soldier that did the dirty work. Mister Irie isn't so far off the mark. Honoring those who died is honorable, glorifying those who died is self-serving.

That's it. It is settled. Irie and English Peter have no way to deny they are anything but total retards. Perhaps you two should pursue some sort of charity to help you fix your ass backward thinking. I can't seem to figure out how that is capitalizing on anything except patriotism. Here's to the pinky out with a short cup of idiocy. At no point did anything either of you said make any sense and we are all stupider for having read your words. May god have mercy on your souls

English Petes' response invoked some thought, but over all I also lost a few brain cells and realized English Pete's is a douche bag

Pud-

Capitalizing on patriotism. I understand how you are not able to figure it out, but please, do not include the many thoughtful people on this site as being "stupider" due to your lack of philosophical achievement.

Nicely done video, Welcome Nanookwillie and thank you for your service....

Mf

Wow tough crowd here.

Where did you serve America SirCharles Pete?

It's still ok if you did not serve at all.

We protected your freedoms and right to disagree for you.

There is no political or money hidden agenda behind honoring and glorifying our troops, past, present and future. That video was a worthy tribute to them, nothing more, nothing less.

Thank you Mr. Magicfly.

It's "Nanook" but some guy on here from Alaska "stold" my name. LOL.

Peace.

You did check out the Dark side before threading here?

Mf

I guess some folks will never understand showing appreciation for the people who die to protect us and our way of life. A lot of people (English Pete) just can't seem to wrap their minds around the concept and think that everyone is out for themselves. Believe it or not, there are plenty of folks who do though. It so happens that the most vocal about it are what you (English Pete) refer to as "hicks" or "rednecks" or "flatulating sphincters." It is OK though. Most of us who serve do it knowing full well that there are those out there that may never understand. Preservation of our great and special country take precedence over your narrow minded point of view. Ignorance is a tolerated trait. After all, you can't get mad at the ones that don't know any better. I would encourage everyone, including you English Pete, to explore something other than first world countries to fully understand how great we really have it. All the more reason to show support and appreciation for our service men and women. I don't know if you noticed, but the choir in that video is from Westpoint. I suppose they are uneducated, narrow minded individuals too? I suspect if they felt they were being exploited they wouldn't be volunteering to do something like that.

WOW! i knew Irie and englishpete are a couple of dipsh!ts, but this takes the cake!

Really?

really what?

I guess my narrow minded hick ass can't seem to grasp what it is that made you say that.

no worries.....i betcha if we had a narrow minded hick competition it would be a close call. but seriously, my truck is bigger then yours i have never voted for a dem and i will go to my grave with never voting for a dem. i smoke shibby, so therefore people think me a lib.

Your truck might be bigger than mine. Unless it is a Ranger. I used to smoke "experimentally" and my vote did not get placed for the dem since I tried to register too late. So you might be right about it being a close race and being considered a Lib.

its all good....im kinda weird and hard to label.

Really

Good to see you around again Rick.

Dear Flub-

I will make this as simple as possible - watch the following video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0IONAupqP0

Now, raise your hand (and try not to hit yourself in the face when you do) to answer the following questions:

Was this program interrupted by commercial sponsors?

Were there any movie/rock/country/wannabe tv stars attending?

Did any of the people in attendance pay an admission fee?

I could go on, but even you might have a 4 watt bulb glowing over your head by now. Unless you can show that the original event was completely donated, and I mean down to the electric bill being waived and the evian water was free to the attendees, it does not honor soldiers like the video I just posted. It was a FOR PROFIT EVENT, and those profits did not go to the honorable men and women either in attendance or in service.

Capitalizing on patriotism. Have a coke and a smile.

i am curious as to why any of what you have said matters......i enjoy fishing and respect fishing....i happen to make a living off of fishing(not commercial fishing) does that make me wrong? no it doesnt. you are a dick head.

Boobie-

Are you somehow better than the deckhand of a commercial fishing boat that is "just making a living."

More to the original point, do you make a living at the expense of the servicemen and women of your country?

Please, do not lower your illumination level to that of Grub, I have "higher" hopes for you.

i have to admit, that was pretty funny

seeing as you bonk native fish....i dont think you get what im talking about

English Pete,

You still continue to not get it. While I will agree that your video had no commercial breaks and had no wannabe rock stars and tv stars, there is a HUGE point that you fail to notice. Every one of those people there have paid an admission fee. It is called being the family member of a serviceman. Everyone of those people spent countless days of their lives without that man so that he may attend to his country's calling. Everyone of those people missed countless birthday's, either his own or his children's or his wife's. Shall I continue? How about the years of time that man had most likely accumulated away from his family? You are a tool and there is no way about it. If a music star puts on a display of appreciation by showing it at a large for profit benefit, what difference does it make? So what. Somebody made a buck off it. Does that make the performance any less grateful? You seem to look passed the point of the performance and see only the bad. You sir, are a pessimist and will not see anything otherwise. Too bad.

You seem to be avid in the art of looking things up on the web. Perhaps you should spare a moment of your trolling to do a search on how the same individual that performed in the video, also performs for the USO and visits troops overseas. Oh yeah, the USO is not for profit but rather a group that collects donations in any shape or form for the benefit of service men and women. Try not to break your pinky while sipping your hot cup o' tea at your computer in your warm house in your free country while looking it up.

Hey Dewb/son-

Will you be calling in sick this monday?

well, duh....

Thanks for your service Nanook. And up yours EP! I served 8 years from 62 - 69. No I never made it to "country" but would have willingly gone. I saw plenty of Nam vets happy to attend concerts on Okinawa and gladly paid or had someone pay for them so the entertainers could appear. I proudly toast and honor the fallen heroes, a few were friends, they are all loved! They will never be forgotten! The kind mentioned below will be forgotten, you can count on it!

John Stuart Mill, said, "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. THE PERSON who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

It's a small world Jhook !

God bless you and thanks for your service too. Nice to talk with you again. I spent two years on that Okinawa rock at NAVCOMSTA Okinawa and at the Naval Message Center in Naha.



Too bad I got spit on when I got home after two years in the Gulf Of Tonkin.

Apparently still some spitters out there.

Oh well. God bless them too.

Deleted by me since author proven not real per below.

More on the supposed Andy Rooney piece: http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/bigcars.asp

LOL... even the guy that supposedly said that said it was "racist and sexist".

God Bless our heros?

This is actually typical GOP style these days.

Nice hat. Not.

Nice hat. Not.

Aww if he's really a hippie he must be OK.

Cool vid!

Hey Nanook....
I checked out the link to your ship. A bit bigger than the one I was on.
Another member of the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club and the Brownwater Navy here. I was part of the recommissioning crew and an RD3 on the USS Carronade IFS-1 from '65 - '67. With 8 rocket launchers, 2 twin 40s and a 5' 38, the Carronade had a lot of fire power for it's size.
As the ship only had 12 ft. draft, we could get in close to shore in support of the ground forces, primarily Marines, that came under attack.
Here's Wiki link with some info about the ship:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Carronade_(LFR-1)

Hey Shipmate.

We carried Recon's and Seal Team's so I know what you guys did. Except for maybe the times hitting the beach in Mike Boat's our stuff was a cakewalk compared to yours.

Glad you made it home safe !

Rick