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“Old breed? New breed? There’s not a damn bit of difference so long as...”
– Lieutenant General Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller, USMC
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“Let me put it in terms we all can understand. If this same thing [a violent...”
– The Green Berets (1968)
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“Foreign policy decisions are not made by the military. A soldier goes where he...”
– The Green Berets (1968)
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hated666 asked: hey man, you have a big version of that B. A. R. specs?
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metamorphoseandbodhi replied to your post: Wow. Do you have photos of the rifles and bayonets? I had a chance a few years ago to hear the stories from a veteran of WWII but I missed it! >_< I’m still kicking myself for missing an opportunity that I probably will never get again. I actually took some photos when I first got them into my possession in early 2011: the Type 38/97 Sniper rifle...
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metamorphoseandbodhi replied to your photo: A pre-invasion map… AWESOME! I wish I could hear your grandfather’s stories from the the war. D: It would be such an honor. I’d like to make a correction, it’s an original Okinawa map he commandeered. He only had a copy of an Iwo map. But so do I, he died way before I was born so I’ve been piecing together his service since I...
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Walter Reed closing after more than 100 years of... →
Walter Reed Army Medical Center was named after Maj. Walter Reed (1851–1902), an Army physician who led the team that confirmed that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes rather than direct contact. Walter Reed medical center has served hundreds of thousands, from privates to presidents, since it opened in 1909. It retired its ceremonial flags today, July 27, move to a new location in Maryland...
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“There is one front and one battle where everyone in the United States—every man,...”
– President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 28 April 1942
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“We came back to Los Angeles at the end of the war, believing that there was no...”
– Peter Ota, a Japanese-American veteran whose family had been interned for the duration of the war
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US ICBM destroyed after flight 'anomaly' →
An unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile was destroyed in flight early Wednesday due to an “anomaly” shortly after blasting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base, military officials said. Air Force controllers detected a “flight anomaly” and decided to destroy the missile about 5 minutes after launch for safety reasons, the base said in a news release....
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tylerdurden2189 asked: What do you know of resistance efforts to help downed Allied pilots? Thanks.

Splendid blog, by the way. Cheers!
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