Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
I scrolled down to read the Raptor story. Wow. Just enough information to make me want to know it all. When do you suppose we nasty civilians will get to see what you all get to play with??
Lance Corporal Williams had a fine showing as well.
Makes you wonder just what the heck one has to do to get the 2nd most important award or the VC? I mean 150 – 1?? Wounded and still trying to fight while he’s being dragged off for treatment? Quite a guy.
Who says this generation is a pallid ghost of our predecessors?
I see shades of Audie Murphy. . .
Wow, a fusilier. I didn’t know there still were such a thing.
Flatlander – I could be wrong, but I don’t think there’s very many privates in the British Army. They are Craftsmen, Guardsmen, Gunners, Troopers, Lancers, Ghurkas, Drivers, Riflemen, etc, and yes, Fusiliers.
fusilier hields proves that one man (with a automatic grenade launcher) *can* make a difference.
Over at Fark, when this was tagged, the wags commented that he used his huge brass balls for cover.
And the Black Knight responds to the Taliban with a “Try that again. I’ll bite your leg off! What? It’s only a flesh wound!”
Fusilier Hields? Look in the dictionary under Man. You’ll see his picture there staring back at you asking what you’ve done today.
Subsunk