| Author |
Message |
King
Title: CTE
Joined: Apr 27 2008
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Posts: 1506
|
Good Luck, Come home safely in One Piece
|
|
|
  |
|
|
scamrock
Title: Space Bastard
Joined: Jan 26 2008
Location: Planet Druidia
Posts: 2392
|
I'm gonna go ahead and thank you for your service. You are a better person than I am, and its people like you that try and make the world better for the rest of us.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
|
| scamrock wrote: |
| I'm gonna go ahead and thank you for your service. You are a better person than I am, and its people like you that try and make the world better for the rest of us. |
QFT
|
|
|
   |
|
|
Kubo
Joined: Aug 24 2005
Location: Mount Holly, NJ
Posts: 1062
|
Although I don't think anyone on this forum is one of the mentioned "miserable creatures," I do think that my favorite quote is appropriate here, as a kudos to sideway.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -J.S. Mill
|
 Thou, because I am wroth, be not dismayed, for I shall win the strife, whoever circle round within for the defence. This their insolence is not new, for of old they used it at a less secret gate, which still is found without a bolt. Above it thou didst see the dead inscription; and already on this side of it
descends the steep, passing without escort through the circles,
One such that by him the city shall be opened to us. |
|
 |
|
|
Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
|
| Kubo wrote: |
Although I don't think anyone on this forum is one of the mentioned "miserable creatures," I do think that my favorite quote is appropriate here, as a kudos to sideway.
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." -J.S. Mill |
My Grandpa has that on a plaque, it's got two knights about to joust engraved on it. 
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
Location: Lake Michigan
Posts: 3332
|
Kubo, that's my favorite quote from that great individualist & utilitarian.
|
|
|
|
|
|
nihilisticglee
Joined: Oct 12 2007
Posts: 821
|
good luck man, come home safe
|
|
|
|
|
|
drewbocop
Joined: Jun 20 2008
Location: Michigan
Posts: 802
|
Good luck brother.
Oh, and bring me back some of that bomb ass heroin. 
|
| Rycona wrote: |
| Now that rainbows are confiscate of the Gay Empire Or Whatever©, they're suspect to foul play. People follow it expecting a pot of gold and a leprechaun, but all they find is a mannequin with a melted ass and a bloody rubber inside... and a leprechaun. |
|
|
|
|
|
DarknessDeku
Title: Deku Scrub
Joined: Dec 08 2007
Location: The Forest
Posts: 3285
|
|
|
|
|
Penguin_Doomsday
Title: The penguins are comin-
Joined: Oct 21 2008
Posts: 137
|
Good luck man! 
|
I don't have a signature. Sorry. Try again later.. probably not though. |
|
|
|
|
Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
Posts: 4844
|
This is not something I say, EVER, for personal reasons, but I truly mean it when I say God Bless You, and I wish you nothing but the best safety, health, and luck!
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Shut up, Dorn
Title: White Chocolate
Joined: Jan 04 2008
Location: Grate Whyte Norf
Posts: 1179
|
Thanks for defending my country, man. Come back in one piece, and you will be the hero of all of Hyrule!
|
|
|
|
|
|
sidewaydriver
2010 SLF Tag Champ
Title: ( ͡� 
Joined: May 11 2008
Posts: 6160
|
Hey guys, just letting you know I made it here, been here for almost two weeks now. Besides getting mortared, it ain't so bad. Not a lot of chances to get online though, seeing all the new threads that I can't catch up on is driving me crazy. I think the site should shut down till I get back. Where's Space Fury when I need him? Iraq would be an easy opponent for him. Anyway, that's about all the time I have, just letting you all know I'm not dead. See ya.
|
Shake it, Quake it, Space Kaboom. |
|
|
|
|
SoldierHawk
Moderator
Title: Warrior-Poet
Joined: Jan 15 2009
Location: San Diego, CA
Posts: 6113
|
Good to hear, Sideway. I hope the mortars weren't too close--or that you at least got your CIB/CAB out of the deal (or the equivalent for the service you're in.)
Continue to stay safe. We're all thinking of you.
|
| William Shakespeare wrote: |
| Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. |
|
|
|
|
|
Ermac
Title: Thread Killer
Joined: Aug 04 2008
Location: Outworld
Posts: 1512
|
just hang in there man, everything should get easier with time
|
|
|
|
|
|
drewbocop
Joined: Jun 20 2008
Location: Michigan
Posts: 802
|
Don't sweat it too much obviously. I have three friends in Iraq right now and one in Germany in the AF. They are getting by for sure. My closest friend fixes helicopters in the Marines, wiring and stuff, he says the worst part is the boredom. But he still manages to stay pretty sane. More computer time will come, he's online quite a bit nowadays.
|
| Rycona wrote: |
| Now that rainbows are confiscate of the Gay Empire Or Whatever©, they're suspect to foul play. People follow it expecting a pot of gold and a leprechaun, but all they find is a mannequin with a melted ass and a bloody rubber inside... and a leprechaun. |
|
|
|
|
|
Cameron
Title: :O � O:
Joined: Feb 01 2008
Location: St. Louis, MO
Posts: 4637
|
| Ermac wrote: |
| just hang in there man, everything should get easier with time |
Seconded. Good luck, sideway. You're out there doing what I could never possibly have the courage to do, and for that, I commend you.
|
|
|
|
|
|
IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
Posts: 1691
|
Good luck to you, and may The Force be with you.
|
"Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it’s because they sat there that they were able to do it."
"Fighting in a basement offers a lot of difficulties, number one being, you're fighting in a basement."
"You're Not So Tough Without Your Veggie!" |
|
|
|
|
|
|
