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1 minute ago, Armybrat said:

45 years ago one of the dads on our Little League team had been a member of the Hitler Youth in his younger days. 
Served in the German Army postwar.
Good guy & a friend.

I went to military school for a couple years in high school (early 90s in Harlingen).  My freshman English teacher was an old German who was in the Hitler youth. Mr. Graf.  He had some interesting stories.  He said pretty much every German teen had to join the Hitler Youth (boys -- the girls had a companion organization.  Listening to him talk about pre-war rise of Nazis, war, and post-war Germany was very interesting.  He lived in a rural town in Bavaria.  He was not commissioned to fight like some Hitler youth were at the end because he worked on his family farm in the countryside of southern Germany.

Almost all the Marines who ran the place were combat veterans.  Mostly Korea and Vietnam. We had several older staff who were World War II vets and fought all over the Pacific.  I loved talking to them about the war.  They were proud of their service and would talk in detail about the campaigns they fought, without getting into the nightmarish parts.  They all faced very tough battle conditions regardless of war.  One was a vet of both WWII and Korea.  He said Guadalcanal and Chosin reservoir were the worst conditions imaginable.  The old Marines taught us history and it was very heavy on Marine Corps battles.

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3 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

I went to military school for a couple years in high school (early 90s in Harlingen).  

Almost all the Marines who ran the place were combat veterans.  Mostly Korea and Vietnam. We had several older staff who were World War II vets and fought all over the Pacific.  I loved talking to them about the war.  They were proud of their service and would talk in detail about the campaigns they fought, without getting into the nightmarish parts.  They all faced very tough battle conditions regardless of war.  One was a vet of both WWII and Korea.  He said Guadalcanal and Chosin reservoir were the worst conditions imaginable.  The old Marines taught us history and it was very heavy on Marine Corps battles.

My dad was on staff there that same time.  He served in Vietnam as a young infantry officer fresh out of college.  Rarely talked to me about it, and when he did, it was mostly logistical/historical, and never really personal.  I remember when I was a young and stupid kid, I asked him, "Dad, did you kill anyone in Vietnam?"  He didn't answer.  I've always felt bad about asking him that question.  I know from my mom that on a couple occasions when he opened up to her about what he experienced, he was crying.

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That would’ve been fascinating for me too. 
Growing up as an Army brat, all the stories I heard were from that branch of the military. 
And a few of the stories were of the Korean War which was currently going on at the time. 
The Army hospital on our post had a lot of recovering casualties from that conflict as patients. 
I & my brother delivered the Miami Herald newspaper to some of those wards.
So seeing some of the troops all bandaged up, some as amputees, brought that war close to home for me.

When my dad was a kid in a very small rural Missouri town over a century ago, he was friends with two Civil War veterans, one of whom was a survivor of the infamous Andersonville prison in Georgia. 

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8 minutes ago, South Austin said:

My dad was on staff there that same time.  He served in Vietnam as a young infantry officer fresh out of college.  Rarely talked to me about it, and when he did, it was mostly logistical/historical, and never really personal.  I remember when I was a young and stupid kid, I asked him, "Dad, did you kill anyone in Vietnam?"  He didn't answer.  I've always felt bad about asking him that question.  I know from my mom that on a couple occasions when he opened up to her about what he experienced, he was crying.

I bet I knew him.  The staff was pretty small and most were NCOs.  One of the reasons the school got into some trouble in the late 90s.  Not enough adult supervision.

Yeah, none of them talked about killing.  Though most probably did as every Marine is a rifleman.  They talked about the history.  And they talked about the tough conditions. But not about blood and gore stuff.

There was a black vet there named Sgt Major Lee, who was kind of in charge of security.  Rumor was he had a massive kill count in Viet Nam.  But that may have just been rumors made up by high school kids.

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1 minute ago, Frank Drebin said:

I bet I knew him.  The staff was pretty small and most were NCOs.  One of the reasons the school got into some trouble in the late 90s.  Not enough adult supervision.

Yeah, none of them talked about killing.  Though most probably did as every Marine is a rifleman.  They talked about the history.  And they talked about the tough conditions. But not about blood and gore stuff.

There was a black vet there named Sgt Major Lee, who was kind of in charge of security.  Rumor was he had a massive kill count in Viet Nam.  But that may have just been rumors made up by high school kids.

I got to spend a lot of time with Gunny Ski when I visited my parents in Harlingen on breaks from college.  I loved that guy.  So did my dad.

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12 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I got to spend a lot of time with Gunny Ski when I visited my parents in Harlingen on breaks from college.  I loved that guy.  So did my dad.

He was everyone's favorite.  One of the funniest men I ever met.  He loved drinking his warm Lone Star beer.

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1 hour ago, Frank Drebin said:

I went to military school for a couple years in high school (early 90s in Harlingen).  My freshman English teacher was an old German who was in the Hitler youth. Mr. Graf.  He had some interesting stories.  He said pretty much every German teen had to join the Hitler Youth (boys -- the girls had a companion organization.  Listening to him talk about pre-war rise of Nazis, war, and post-war Germany was very interesting.  He lived in a rural town in Bavaria.  He was not commissioned to fight like some Hitler youth were at the end because he worked on his family farm in the countryside of southern Germany.

Almost all the Marines who ran the place were combat veterans.  Mostly Korea and Vietnam. We had several older staff who were World War II vets and fought all over the Pacific.  I loved talking to them about the war.  They were proud of their service and would talk in detail about the campaigns they fought, without getting into the nightmarish parts.  They all faced very tough battle conditions regardless of war.  One was a vet of both WWII and Korea.  He said Guadalcanal and Chosin reservoir were the worst conditions imaginable.  The old Marines taught us history and it was very heavy on Marine Corps battles.

That’s what made that school unique down there in the RGV.  All those old Leathernecks who served in the those wars and their experiences in combat and during the Cold War era in general.    Not sure what the faculty looks like now with the Vietnam era vets now very much retired along with some of the later part of the Cold War service members getting there too.   

I had a College Professor who was in the Hitler Youth. His lectures were hard to understand  at times because of his accent.   But when we had a chance to speak to him in a more social setting, his disdain and hate of his  days in the Hitler Youth were very well understood and animated.  

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Carson Beck over Arch and Pavia? 
Sure Jan GIF

Miami is gonna end up 8-4 or 9-3 and miss the playoffs 

I can't see Miami winning 9. That D is going to be worse and Beck is very far from Cam. Add to it Miami lost ALL its WRs and the best parts of a bad defense.  DE (Drafted), DT (free agent) and OLB (drafted) that was 52nd ranked(they were in the 100s for RZ D).

ND is going to throttle them and Florida will too if Lagway is healthy. So that's 2 losses before October.

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1 minute ago, BurntEyes said:

I can't see Miami winning 9. That D is going to be worse and Beck is very far from Cam. Add to it Miami lost ALL its WRs and the best parts of a bad defense.  DE (Drafted), DT (free agent) and OLB (drafted) that was 52nd ranked(they were in the 100s for RZ D).

ND is going to throttle them and Florida will too if Lagway is healthy. So that's 2 losses before October.

Can’t discount the game winning FG that Bert shanks wide left 

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52 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Just a fucking hideous collection of the most generic or garish shit that one would find untouched in the corner of an Academy or Wal Mart. I wouldn't buy a Texas box of this shit for $40. Ugly and fucking trash. 

I'm pretty fucking embarrassed Texas licensed our brand for our own version of this stupid shit. 

 

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Pathetic. 

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2 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I'm pretty fucking embarrassed Texas licensed our brand for our own version of this stupid shit. 

 

Same, but hilarious - do you want a 1993 SWC champions shirt or a 2005 NATIONAL champions shirt? 

Posted
4 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

I went to military school for a couple years in high school (early 90s in Harlingen).  My freshman English teacher was an old German who was in the Hitler youth. Mr. Graf.  He had some interesting stories.  He said pretty much every German teen had to join the Hitler Youth (boys -- the girls had a companion organization.  Listening to him talk about pre-war rise of Nazis, war, and post-war Germany was very interesting.  He lived in a rural town in Bavaria.  He was not commissioned to fight like some Hitler youth were at the end because he worked on his family farm in the countryside of southern Germany.

Almost all the Marines who ran the place were combat veterans.  Mostly Korea and Vietnam. We had several older staff who were World War II vets and fought all over the Pacific.  I loved talking to them about the war.  They were proud of their service and would talk in detail about the campaigns they fought, without getting into the nightmarish parts.  They all faced very tough battle conditions regardless of war.  One was a vet of both WWII and Korea.  He said Guadalcanal and Chosin reservoir were the worst conditions imaginable.  The old Marines taught us history and it was very heavy on Marine Corps battles.

Love stories like this but the bold section made me lol slightly.

Posted
4 hours ago, Frank Drebin said:

I went to military school for a couple years in high school (early 90s in Harlingen).  My freshman English teacher was an old German who was in the Hitler youth.  

My great-great-grandfather was an old Indian fighter. My great-great-grandmother was an old Indian.

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This is not what an objective account looks like 

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1 hour ago, nnm said:

 

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I actually feel sorry for Reed.  They do this every year.  

Alright, who wants to guess what someone with a handle like "EmilyOfEastTexas" looks like? Just how Box is that Face?

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Oof. And thats with heavy makeup and a filter. That's a woman who's been rode hard and put away and road hard and never been put away. 

In related news, I didn't know Jack Elam had a daughter...because why would I?

 

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Posted
13 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

UmYzLnBuZw

I'm Nikolas Van Helsing, professor of proctology and other related tendencies. A graduate of the University of Rangoon . . . and assorted night classes at the Knoxville Tennessee school of faith healing.

You may be a little over qualified for this job.

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