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Syd Lexia
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This guy was hardcore.
From here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060527/ap_on_re_us/obit_rudolph
WWII Hero Donald Rudolph Sr. Dies At 85
Sat May 27, 1:15 AM ET
BOVEY, Minn. - Donald E. Rudolph Sr., who received a Medal of Honor for bravery for destroying two Japanese machine gun nests during World War II, has died. He was 85.
Rudolph died Thursday of complications from Alzheimer's disease, said Itasca County Veterans Services Officer Marvin Ott, who spoke with Rudolph's wife, Helen, on Friday. He had been ill for several years.
President Harry S. Truman presented Rudolph with the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military honor, on Aug. 23, 1945.
On Feb. 5 of that year, the young Army sergeant crossed a battlefield on Luzon island in the northern Philippines alone — protecting himself with grenades — when the company that was supposed to be supporting his unit was pinned down. He destroyed two Japanese pillboxes before attacking and neutralizing six others. Then, when his unit came under fire from a tank, he climbed onto the tank and dropped a white phosphorus grenade through the turret, killing the crew.
According to the U.S. Army Center of Military History, "Rudolph cleared a path for an advance which culminated in one of the most decisive victories of the Philippine campaign."
Rudolph, who was struck by shrapnel, was promoted to second lieutenant.
As a recipient of the prestigious medal, Rudolph and his wife attended several presidential inaugurations, where Rudolph met Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton and George W. Bush.
After retiring from the Army in 1963, he worked for the Veterans Administration as a veterans benefit counselor until retiring in 1976.
Rudolph is survived by his wife, a son and three grandchildren.
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Murdar Machene
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I love shit like that. That guy was a bad ass.
There was some book I read about Japanese-American soliders in WWII, this one guy got his arm blown off by an enemy grenade, trying to save his friend, so he just switched hands with his thompson and charged ahead, using the only arm he had left to kick ass.
How bad ass do you have to be to shrug off losing your arm and just shoot with the other one? That's awesome. Those guys are true Americans.
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Kubo
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God damn. If I knew this guy, I would high five him every day in the hopes that his badassedness would rub off on me.
::Salute:: At ease, soldier.
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 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,
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RegalSin
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Personally to hell with WAR. He did hie deed and done it well but the point is he risk his life and still died at a early age not for his country but for a cause. WWII and almost any wars have absolutely no winners.
Great I am not going to go back to any air feild just to fly with a couple of pilots a too be wiped out for some dumb countries cause.
What caused WWI.... Aliiances, Germany and France wanted more land, Asassinations, Genocide
What caused WWII.... Alliances, Hitler rise to power, Germany declars itself as supreme power, and pearl Harbor, Genocide( Not just Jews).
Korean War, Russian help change there goverment to Comunism.
Vietnam, Russia Helping Korea change to Communism.
This stupid MIddle East thing,
People mislead by "Jews" to commit Genocide
Africa, Genocide, USA and others too busy with Middle East to help??WTF
China Genocide of property rights( No kidding just checkout the peeking duck ), USA and others too pust to help China. China and other variants using various company ties to help subtitle there citizens ideas.
Yes it was Heroic but man ether way there was no winner and we will never know unless there is a end.
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Kubo
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| RegalSin wrote: |
| Personally to hell with WAR. He did hie deed and done it well but the point is he risk his life and still died at a early age not for his country but for a cause. WWII and almost any wars have absolutely no winners. |
I take it your a pacifist, so I can kind of, almost, barely understand the completely retarded mindset that all war is bad. That said, there was, indeed, a winning side in World War 2.
Put it to you this way, if the other side won, there'd be a good chance you'd be speaking German. National preservation (among countless other things) is a prize worth fighting for and winning.
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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. |
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Tebor
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| RegalSin wrote: |
\This stupid MIddle East thing,
People mislead by "Jews" to commit Genocide. |
DID WE LEARN NOTHING!?!?!?!?
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Gushoshin
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End of the day,
America's Vets Rocks.* Regal Sin sucks it hard.
*Editors Note, I Love all American vets, but they don't call them "The Greatest Generation" for nothing you know. My Grandfather was a WW2 vet and he always has something cool to say about vets, and life; in general
Have a happy ya guys!
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\This stupid MIddle East thing,
People mislead by "Jews" to commit Genocide.
Tebor Wrote:
DID WE LEARN NOTHING!?!?!?!? |
Tebor, i almost pissed my pants laughing at your too true Chunk of wisdom
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RegalSin
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So what if I use the word Jew. You have the words World War, Japanese, and Germany.
What I am sappose to say Israeli( how did I spell that ). I mean that is the overall word and there society is lead by Religion.
True Americans my but. America is a makemup word and will nefver be the same. All my life I had to deal with Whats your background, are you this and are you that and so did my sister and my mother and father.
No to hell with American pride this guy just wanted to help and not do his dutie and run away but really help like no diffrent today where everybody else. If you ever seen these ppeople right now in the Middle East alot of them are not built for war and they would have been artists, farmers, writers, and maybe even musican but now over like 10,000 people from the USA or united was killed just to help some rich Israeli or binnie hat guy kill of all the sand folks.
Thinking back on it that scene in Star Wars where Anikens Mother died and he Slaughtered all the Bandits is no diffrent then this world and USA bombing Muslim people and then the Churchies come along to bring the crap Religion to them So we can have anothjer set of self killing Darkskinned based people killing of each other and asking god for help.
Yes a tear rolls down my eye thinking about these times of war but the truth is they all could have been avoided.
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B.B.King
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You are by far, THE stupidest person, I have ever encountered.
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RegalSin
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| B.B.King wrote: |
| You are by far, THE stupidest person, I have ever encountered. |
Why is that now or you jsut Jelous 
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Sock
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There was this quote in a Magic novel I read, it went something like; "Mishra had always wanted attention, but Urza found it best to ignore him until he tired himself out". Heed the advice, ya all.
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Syd Lexia
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Ignoring the problem only makes things worse though. Maybe Mishra and Urza wouldn't have had The Brothers' War if Urza had tried to deal with him instead of ignoring him. I'm not saying that we should take course of action here, mind you, I'm just saying the source material may not be the best example.
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Sock
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You know, I didn't expect anyone to look into the context of my post. See, it's the internet. Ignore him, he'll get bored, and leave, or do something drastic, then we can ban him. If we knew the bloke in person, the problem would just manifest itself. But since we know him on this here internet, we can take liberties.
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Syd Lexia
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Agreed. But if Triskelions march upon SydLexia.com headquarters, I am going to be quite upset. And surprised.
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Cattivo
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| Agreed. But if Triskelions march upon SydLexia.com headquarters, I am going to be quite upset. And surprised. |
Best Star Trek reference ever
Anyway, I think Regal is seriously challenging my tenets as an historian. His statements are so outrageous and historically inaccurate, that I can't even bother debating him. What's the point?
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Syd Lexia
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| Cattivo wrote: |
| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| Agreed. But if Triskelions march upon SydLexia.com headquarters, I am going to be quite upset. And surprised. |
Best Star Trek reference ever |
Well, only the planet was called Triskelion was the planet in that episode, I believe its inhabitants were called Thralls. And while Captain Kirk kicked all sorts of ass in that episode, I was actually making an M:TG reference, since Sock brought up Mishra and Uzra:
My apologies. I will try to make a good Star Trek:TOS reference in earnest in the future.
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Cattivo
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Yeah, I was wondering if you were still refering to that, but I don't know anything about Magic the Gathering, and I thought, "What are the chances that two fictional worlds used the same made up word?" Guess the chances were better than what I thought.
Oh wait, is it really a made up word? Bah, who cares.
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Lady_Satine
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion
And to prove this hasn't gotten too far off-topic, it mentions the Third Reich heh.
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Juffo-Wup
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Hasn't this thread derailed already '?
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Dr. Jeebus
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While the image on the Magic card can't be the definition, Triskellion must be a word. Magic used, it, Star Trek used it, and it's the name of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters.
Upon use of a dictionary, however, I'm wrong.
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Syd Lexia
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| Dr. Jeebus wrote: |
While the image on the Magic card can't be the definition, Triskellion (sic) must be a word. Magic used, it, Star Trek used it, and it's the name of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s headquarters.
Upon use of a dictionary, however, I'm wrong. |
I take it you didn't follow the Wikipedia link listed above...
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