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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Nov 11, 2012 - 08:42pm PT
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Thanks!
To both of you.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Nov 11, 2012 - 08:51pm PT
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"They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them."
"Lest we forget"
For the Fallen
Lawrence Binyon 1914
So giving.....
Susan
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dogtown
Trad climber
Cheyenne, Wyoming and Marshall Islands atoll.
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Nov 11, 2012 - 09:28pm PT
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U.S. Army, 1st of the 9th air mobile Crew chef
1970-73
Fort Ord, California
Vietnam, Central highlands
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Guangzhou
Trad climber
Asia, Indonesia, East Java
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Nov 11, 2012 - 09:55pm PT
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Not sure this is good OPSEC, but here goes. Wink Wink
Okay.. here's the way to do this
Name:
Emmanuel Lacoste
Branch of Service:
U.S. Army, Infantry.
Years of Service:
5 years
Where you Basic trained:
Georgia, Benning
Where you were stationed:
Germany, 1-4 Infantry.
KY/TN 101 Airbone.
If in a war where?Bold Text
No real wars, spent a long time wearing a blue hat in Haiti. Main mission was protecting the new president.
We must never forget the sacrifices made by those who served.Bold Text
I agree, but just as important, many were sacrifice who didn't officially serve. Some were just at the wrong place when problems started, others took it on themselves to do their part to end the war. (French Resistance comes to mind.)
Thank you Soldiers!
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Nov 13, 2012 - 03:22am PT
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I'm all for appreciating what veterans go through, and support them getting the best treatment from our system when they return from war. Still...
Maybe its time to get more real about the military and veterans day. Weve been trained by our culture to idolize soldiers. Somehow were supposed to tell ourselves that they are our greatest citizens. Were never supposed to call for cuts in military spending, even as we shut off funds to the poor and helpless within our borders.
Of course when a government wants to recruit people to risk death and dismemberment in foreign lands that propose little or no threat to country, they have to pay them lip service. These soldiers are also used as a political shield so the questionable reasons for war are not questioned. Somehow we werent supporting our troops if we called for them to return from a lame and useless war in Iraq. The troops, of course, arent allowed to call for their own return. We have to do it!
Very few people join the military for self-less sacrificing service to our country, and our country is in zero danger of invasion by other lands. Once someone joins the military they may have an opportunity for heroic action for the sake of others, or also for the most depraved insults to human life and dignity. Many of the worst crimes against humanity in history have been committed by soldiers, sometimes at the request of superiors and politicians, but sometimes by the fog of war which corrupts the better angels of individuals.
So my heart goes out to those people who gone in the military and suffered death, injury or trauma thinking it was for a good cause, whether it was or not. I salute those soldiers who have done heroic deeds that saved comrades, or even better, innocent civilians.
But dont ask me for blind adoration of the military, its actions, or use soldiers as a cover to gain support for the military. I dont buy it. We need a worldwide transformation to make militaries irrelevant, smaller, and eventually unneeded. Our weapons get more and more powerful and we risk killing ALL of each other or being suppressed by robot drones from all knowing governments.
My heroes fight for peace.
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steveA
Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
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Nov 13, 2012 - 08:14am PT
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Steve Arsenault
Army-Sgt.
1967-70
Vietnam -23 months-Central Highlands
2 purple hearts
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Nov 13, 2012 - 09:14am PT
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Good post Karl, but possibly not the best place for it.
Although, freedom of speech and all...
You probably bought the thread some added life.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Nov 13, 2012 - 10:53am PT
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I salute all those who serve in uniform with honor and integrity.
This weekend I went to NYC despite the iffy nature of a recovering disaster area to attend the memorial service of my friend Luce who, among many other fine efforts in life, served during WWII as an airplane mechanic with the Army Air Corps on Guam.
On the flight back yesterday I sat amidst a sea of DMAT personnel returning home after 2 weeks service to Sandy victims.
Although I get a little nervous about Homeland Security having a uniformed army these guys are in the business of saving lives and were to a man (and woman) obviously committed medical people. So lets not forget the service people (like the Coast Guard as well) who are less combat oriented.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Nov 13, 2012 - 11:35am PT
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2 yrs of service in the Army
One of the 1st in the Volunteer Army
Basic training - Fort Polk Louisiana
AIT - Ft. Rucker Alabama - Air Traffic Control
Viet Nam ERA veteran that spent my whole tour doing enroute control on a mountaintop in Southern South Korea (microwave relay station called Brooklyn Site) If any of you chopper pilots out there were stationed in Korea from 74 to 76, my callsign was Mike Sierra
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Roger Brown
climber
Oceano, California
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Nov 13, 2012 - 12:07pm PT
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Gunners Mate First Class
Boot Camp San Diego
Gun School North Chicago
USS Lawrence-Destroyer-East Coast-Europe
USS Hull-Destroyer-Naval Gunfire Support-DMZ Vietnam
USS Benewah-River Assault Group One-Vietnam Delta
5 Years, 7 Months, 19 Days
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Colombia, South America
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Nov 13, 2012 - 12:10pm PT
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Weve been trained by our culture to idolize soldiers. Somehow were supposed to tell ourselves that they are our greatest citizens.
Right on Karl. Anyone joining the US military in recent times knows EXACTLY what they're signing up to do. And I'm totally against it. Dont want to hear any nonsense about PTSD and how war wasn't as glorious as you'd hoped.
On the other hand, I can forgive people who joined out of patriotism, and claim to have been duped. But those who say they joined because they had no other option because the economy is bad - well, I wouldn't kill people for money, and none of them are as poor as their victims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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MikeL
climber
SANTA CLARA, CA
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Nov 13, 2012 - 12:42pm PT
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One of my little sisters in Iraq:
I appreciate Karl's sentiments. Pain and suffering might seem stupid, but there's hardly any getting around it here in this plane of existence. Many things can be criticized; war and the services as extensions of the politic are among the many.
Veterans Day is also for veterans (as well as for civilians who think it's their duty to back the men and women who are sent into harm's way to do their bidding).
There is little that can be compared to the feelings of community, honor, and duty in a band of brothers and sisters in combat. War and the sense of death all around you brings a clarity about living that might only be approached in climbing, police and fire work, and maybe in critical health care. While you're in those situations, you can hate it, sure, but the experiences can leave a lasting mark on a person that frames the rest of his or her life. Many things are like that, and they are neither good nor bad.
By the way: there really are people who join up because they want to get involved for what they think are larger purposes than material needs. My sister did. Me . . . I wanted to see what I was made of.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Nov 13, 2012 - 12:56pm PT
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I think the military was the perfect thing to get me to grow up. First they kicked my butt, then they gave me responsibility, that's just what a young man (or woman) needs. I'm not saying everybody has to get it that way, but it was the right thing at the right time for me.
Hmmm, I need to give my 22yr old son a call (although he's already more motivated than I was).
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Nov 13, 2012 - 01:50pm PT
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Coz wrote
Thanks for the typical sanctimonious crap Karl.
This thread is to honor vets. Who do fight for peace and freedoms, the very ones u enjoy.
Shameful!
Thanks to my parents who served.
All the team guys I've train the last 25 years and to all those currently in uniform u are hero's and a grateful nation thanks you.
You can thank me for bumping this thread, which I had to pull up from page three. I agree about our parent's service. WW2 was about the last war that had anything to do with protecting America's freedom, although Korea could be perhaps justified as protecting the Korean's freedom.
after that, the veterans have my compassion as victims of our government, not because they are truly fighting for freedom, because they aren't.
And I'd like to see any evidence to the contrary. So why continue this myth that soldiers are these heroes sacrificing themselves so we can be free? It's now a lie and making this our societies narrative only allows the politicians to have cover for stupid wars while getting poor kids to volunteer for something that can rip their lives apart while doing us no good.
It has to stop. Even Afghanistan was a total sham and waste of time. The hijackers were Saudi and the money came from there too. As soon as we leave, the place is going right back to hell and isn't good now.
So stop it. I'm sorry for the state of veterans in this country and do not seek to blame them. They are victims of our corrupt government and military industrial complex. But the guys I know who joined the service did so because they wanted to kick ass, not to save the world, and the guys who joined the service that others tell me about, joined because of the socialistic style benefits that the service provides... subsidized housing, food, health care, and college.
So why do we need a special category of honoring these people? So they will continue to volunteer for the military, getting killed for the interests of big business? I'm done with that and call foul. I'd rather honor Daniel Ellsberg for risking his freedom to get the troops home from vietnam when the government was telling boldface lies about our 'progress' there. Or Bradly Manning, who risked his freedom to out the BS of our current military. These guys actually DID fight for our freedom but found themselves in jail.
I conclude with the words of a super war hero, two time medal of honor winner, General Smedly Butler
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.
I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.
I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.
There isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men" to destroy enemies, its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a "Big Boss" Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned 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 for 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 the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, 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 revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
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MikeL
climber
SANTA CLARA, CA
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Nov 13, 2012 - 01:59pm PT
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So why do we need a special category of honoring these people?
Bloody hell, Karl's right. Let's get rid of all the celebrations this country devotes itself to.
National Poverty in America Awareness Month - January
Family Fit Lifestyle Month - January
New York City Restaurant Week - January 16 - February 10, 2012
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month - January
National Personal Trainer Awareness Day - January 2
National Book Blitz Month - January
National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month - January
National Blood Donor Month - January
International Quality of Life Month - January
International Creativity Month - January
National Birth Defects Prevention Month - January
Financial Wellness Month - January
Customer Service Day - January 17
National Trivia Day - January 4
National Glaucoma Awareness Month - January
National Mentoring Month - January
National Personal Trainer Awareness Week - 1st Week in January
National Radon Action Month - January
National Thank Your Customers Week - 1st Week in January
New Year's Day - January 1
Thyroid Awareness Month - January
Women's Self-Empowerment Week - 1st Week in January
Hunt for Happiness Week - 3rd Week in January
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - 3rd Monday in January
Get to Know Your Customer Day - January 20
A National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation - January 20
National Handwriting Day - January 23
Thank Your Mentor Day - January 26
Youth Leadership Month - February
Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month - February
Black History Month - February
National Patient Recognition Week - February 1 - February 7
Library Lovers Month - February
Burn Awareness Month - February
Groundhog Day - February 2
American Heart Month - February
President's Day - 3rd Monday in February
Plant The Seeds Of Greatness Month - February
Aggressive Driving Month - February
National Weddings Month - February
Chinese New Year - February 10
National Parent Leadership Month - February
National Time Management Month - February
Valentine's Day - February 14
Women's Heart Health Week - 1st Week in February
World Marriage Day - 2nd Sunday in February
National Athletic Training Month - March
National Umbrella Month - March
American Red Cross Month - March
March for Babies - March 1 - April 31
National Ethics Awareness Month - March
National Nutrition Month - March
St. Patrick's Day - March 17
National Social Work Month - March
Irish-American Heritage Month - March
Return the Borrowed Books Week - 1st Week in March
National Eye Donor Month - March
National Optimism Month - March
Youth Violence Prevention Week - Last Week in March
Colorectal Cancer Education and Awareness Month - March
Workplace Eye Safety Month - March
Purim - March 7 - March 8, 2012
National Craft Month - March
National Sleep Awareness Week - March 7 - March 13
National Women's History Month - March
Poison Prevention Awareness Month - March
Save Your Vision Month - March
Steroid Abuse Prevention Month - March
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International Women's Day - March 8
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National Children's Craft Day - March 14
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April Fools' Day - April 1
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Earth Day - April 22
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Meditation Month - May
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International Nurses Day - May 12
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Parents Day - 4th Sunday in July
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4th of July - July 4
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Family Reunion Month - July
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UV Safety Month - July
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National Therapeutic Recreation Week - 2nd Week in July
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Neurosurgery Outreach Month - August
National Women's Month - August
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Psoriasis Awareness Month - August
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Coast Guard Day - August 4
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National Aviation Week - August 15 - August 21, 2012
Little League World Series - August 16 - August 26, 2012
Thanks For All The Gifts Week - 3rd Week in August
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Baby Safety Month - September
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month - September
National Cholesterol Education Month - September
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National Preparedness Month - September
National Campus Safety Month - September
National Food Safety Education Month - September
National Emergency Preparedness Week - September 11 - September 17
National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month - September
National Grandparents Day - September 9
College Savings Month - September
Craniofacial Acceptance Month - September
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Healthy Aging Month - September
National Sickle Cell Month - September
Ovarian Cancer Month - September
Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month - September
5-A-Day Month - September
Adult Day Services Week - 3rd Week in September
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National Infant Mortality Awareness Month - September
Labor Day - 1st Monday in September
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Suicide Prevention Week - 1st Week in September
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International Literacy Day - September 8
Patriot Day - September 11
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Halloween - October 31
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Healthcare Central Service and Sterile Processing Week - 2nd Week in October
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National School Lunch Week - 2nd Week in October
Improve Your Home Office Week - 2nd Week in October
World Blindness Awareness Month - October
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Put The Brakes On Fatalities Day - October 10
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Character Counts Week - 3rd Week in October
National Food Bank Week - October 14 - October 20, 2012
Global Handwashing Day - October 15
National Boss Day - October 16
World Food Day - October 16
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Kids Care Week - 3rd Week in October
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National Chemistry Week - 3rd Week in October
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YWCA Week Without Violence - 3rd Week in October
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American Diabetes Month - November
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Family Stories Month - November
Educational Support Personnel Day
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World Kindness Week - 2nd Monday in November
Youth Appreciation Week - 2nd Week in November
Veterans Day - November 11
National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week - 2nd Week in November
National Family Volunteer Day - 2nd Saturday in November
Thanksgiving - 4th Thursday in November
Great American Smokeout - 3rd Thursday in November
Humane Society Anniversary Day - November 22
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women - November 25
National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week - December 1 - December 7
Learn A Foreign Language Month - December
National Drugged and Drunk Driving Prevention Month - December
Identity Theft Prevention and Awareness Month - December
National Hand Washing Awareness Month - December
Universal Human Rights Month - December
Tolerance Week - December 1 - December 7
Cancer-Related Fatigue Awareness Month - December
The Christmas Seal Campaign - December
International Calendar Awareness Month - December
International Sharps Injury Prevention and Awareness Month - December
AIDS Awareness Month - December
Read a New Book Month - December
World AIDS Day - December 1
Write to a Friend Month - December
Hand Washing Awareness Week - 1st Week in December
Art and Architecture Month - December
National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month - December
National Made in America Month - December
National Sign-Up for Camp Month - December
National Write a Business Plan Month - December
Operation Santa Paws - December
Safe Toys and Gifts Month - December
Seasonal Depression Awareness Month - December
Chanukah - December 8 - December 15, 2012
Human Rights Week - December 10 - December 17
Las Posadas - December 16 - December 24
Christmas - December 25
Kwanzaa - December 26 - January 1
World Peace Meditation Day - December 31
New Year's Eve - December 31
national depression screeaning day
National Night Out - 1st Tuesday in August
National COPD Awareness Month
National Novel Writing Month
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Nov 13, 2012 - 02:07pm PT
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Just for the record, I'm fine with Veteran's day, although I think that when the president and the media speak of soldiers as the best our society has to offer, it's basically lip service so people will continue to sign up and die for weak reasons.
There's nothing inherently honorable about being a soldier. Throughout history, it has been soldiers (probably following orders) who have committed the the greatest atrocities. The Nazi death camps, millions killed under Pol Pot and in the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 2-3 million South-East Asians killed by the United States in the Vietnam war era, and the rape of Nanjing by the Japanese. All done by Soldiers.
And soldiers just follow orders. There's hardly any evidence of mass refusal and desertion by soldiers in any of the above horrors. So a soldier is only as good as the cause and government who is telling them what to do. Let's fight for the cause of using force only when really needed, not for oil or Israel
peace
Karl
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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Nov 13, 2012 - 02:11pm PT
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Karl.....Really!? On this thread...Really?! Wow!!
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Nov 13, 2012 - 02:23pm PT
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This is the best time of the day the dawn The final cleansing breath unsullied yet By acrid fume or death's cacophony The rank refuse of unchained ambition
And pray, deny me not but know me now Your faithful retainer stands resolute To serve his liege Lord without recompense Perchance to fall and perish namelessly
No flag draped bier or muffled drum to set The cadence for a final dress parade But it was not always thus remember Once you worshipped me and named me a God In many tongues and made offering lest I exact too terrible a tribute
Take heed for I am weary, ancient And decrepit now and my time grows short There are no honorable frays to join Only mean death dealt out in dibs and dabs Or horror unleashed from across oceans
Assail me not with noble policy For I care not at all for platitude And surrender such tedious detail To greater minds than mine and nimbler tongues Singular in their purpose and resolve And presuming to speak for everyman
Oh, for another time, a distant field And there a mortal warrior's lonely grave But duty charges me remain until The end the last battle of the last war
Until that tomorrow render unto me That which is mine my stipend well deserved The fairest flower of your progeny Your sons, your daughters your hopes and your dreams The cruel consequence of your conceit
Warrior, by Steve Earle
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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Nov 13, 2012 - 02:31pm PT
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Ummm..OK,yeah I even agree with what Karl says(wholeheartedly).My whole time in the military I was constantly told "what are you doin' here?You're definitely not the military type".But the thread title is "Thank You Veterans!".Bashing Veterans Day was not really the reasoning for this thread,nor was arguing.
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Michelle
Trad climber
Toshi's Station, picking up power converters.
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Nov 13, 2012 - 02:41pm PT
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Back on track
Michelle
US Army
Ft Jackson, SC BCT
Ft Sam Houston, TX AIT
Medic
Stationed at Ft Bliss, El Paso, other short term conus locations
I loved my job and didn't want to get out. Long story I'm not interested in sharing here today.
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