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
When I went to the USAF Combat Ammunition School (at the time at Sierra AAD in northern CA) one of the things they showed us was the spot where a BLU-82 had cooked off inside a buried earth magazine. The mag itself, of course, was gone and in its place was a 100 ft. wide crater. The concrete facings on the nearest mags had been pulled off by the blast and the mags themselves collapsed. Each of those mags was approximately 200 ft away on either side. I can only imagine what it would have been like to have been under one of those monsters when it went off.
Mike
Nice Ghostbusters reference, by the way.
I agree. 2 pts for the Rick Moranis quote.
Don’t feel bad, they didn’t fit under Hornets…..
Is the MOAB the replacement? (Cool biblical/Utah sounding acronym!)
Hey Mike, glad you liked the pic!
– Larry, your buddy from the HPCA bulletin board.