I remember a certain Lee Greenwood song gaining popularity during "Desert Shield/Storm."
I was in 7th grade. My dad was mobilized to go to the Gulf. We (my family) went to lots of parades, prayer circles, and such, tied yellow ribbons, and heard that blessed anthem regurgitated each time. And each time we consumed it wholesale, teary eyed, and ( Read more... )

Some folks I'd love to down beers with (in no particular order):

1. as promised, Yakov Smirnov
2. Either Bush twin
3. Woody Guthrie
4. Khom Chau and his son-in-law
5. aurora_lost
6. Dean's sister in law (HA!)

I'm heading into Baghdad today folks, couple of stops in the green zone and hopefully no wrong turns.

Peace my lambs,

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Sadly my command structure doesn't have a comparable indicator.

Someday I'll post pictures of our glorious chiken coop burning down.
Until then you may watch the pages of qp4. He's far more diligent than i at this posting thing.

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Greece baby!

I've never been good at planning future events ( Read more... )

Everyone has a way of getting ready for the next mission. some method of calming nerves, psyching up, whatever ( Read more... )

Low and behold fuckin PFC Shawn Perkins from my platoon has an LJ. View life at ST Michael through the eyes of my wingman's driver here qp4.

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I love life.

I sat and smoked a cigarette with a real live babylonian next to the euphrates fuckin river! he's our interpreter, and I taught him to ask "who did you vote for?"

Its the cooch of civilization bitches!

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Fuck me ( Read more... )

Picture if you will a quiet scene of a young man, headphones on, cake and whatnot playing, cleaning a rifle and trying to realize whether he feels much at all about his grandfather dieing, and so on to thoughts of mortality, afterlives, reincarnation, how one should approach life, approaching death, whether or not he liked or loved his grandparent ( Read more... )

I just found out my papaw died friday morning. Suck.

here's a fucking quiz.
somthing about five songs i'm digging.

1. Al Green - Belle

2. Nina Simone - Sinner Man

3. Cake - About anything from all of the albums I have. Damn this is a good band.

4. Flaming lips - Virtue

5. David Allen Coe - You Never Call Me By My Name