tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post3889974201560138712..comments2024-02-28T20:56:23.768-06:00Comments on Sipsey Street Irregulars: "For Freedom Float the Flags I Love"Dutchman6http://www.blogger.com/profile/09935420042995679958noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-5828587821696769172009-02-23T11:30:00.000-06:002009-02-23T11:30:00.000-06:00Chris Horton,I, too, had a grandfather and some gr...Chris Horton,<BR/><BR/>I, too, had a grandfather and some great uncles (3) fight in WW2 for this country. My other grandfather was too old to fight (well, too old to be drafted - more below), but he had come to this country in 1923 with nothing but the shirt on his back and one gold coin (that my father still has and which I will get someday). He found refuge here from the Russian Revolution, freedom that he valued like only someone who had everything taken from him could. He left his parents and 6 siblings behind, and only got to see 4 of those siblings for a couple weeks in the late 1960s. His parents were quite well to do before the Revolution, his father having built 12 houses with his older sons by hand, and renting them out - only to have the GD Communists take them all away "for the people." <BR/><BR/>I will be damned to Hell if I ever sit back and let the ideological descendants of those bastards back in Russia take from me and my kids the liberties that we have inherited, which my grandfather valued so deeply, and which my other grandfather and great uncles fought for.<BR/>_________________________<BR/>Now the story of "too old to fight." The same great grandfather of mine who lost those houses had a first cousin who was born in 1873. He fought in WW1, which started when he was 41 and ended when he was 45. OK, not the biggest deal in the world. Fast forward to 1941 and the German invasion of the USSR. This guy, age 68, shows up to volunteer. Now understand, the Soviets were DESPERATE for manpower (having lost hundreds of thousands in the opening days of the war, and over 600,000 in an encirclement operation at Smolensk only 4 weeks after the invasion), but even so the officers signing up volunteers laughed and said, "go home, grandfather, we don't need you." However, he was extremely stubborn, and wouldn't leave...so they assigned him to be the driver (and bodyguard) for some general. Not long afterwards, he was crossing a bridge and the Luftwaffe blew it out from under them. They ended up in the drink, and the general couldn't swim. Yes, my 68 year old cousin dragged this guy halfway across a river and saved his life.<BR/><BR/>From such stock I come - I don't give a rat's ass how old I am, I will fight for this nation and its ideals. Not the ideals of the moment (as portrayed by the synchophantic media), but those timeless ideals first lived and written by our Founding Generation. I will not be assimilated by the Oborg.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-4132365888913329122009-02-22T16:59:00.000-06:002009-02-22T16:59:00.000-06:00Thanks for the taste, Mike.While waiting, I'm rere...Thanks for the taste, Mike.<BR/><BR/>While waiting, I'm rereading the New Cambridge History of the Middle Ages. Still in the 7th Century, so I still have some book left.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-92087586467950388552009-02-22T09:09:00.000-06:002009-02-22T09:09:00.000-06:00Glen Beck reporthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mux...Glen Beck report<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mux_-GlgmR8Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01798165109917234087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-87527170945168062932009-02-22T08:46:00.000-06:002009-02-22T08:46:00.000-06:00Here's an angle on the flag. The criminals that ar...Here's an angle on the flag. The criminals that are running this country into the ground and destroying the Constitution for self greed and doing the dirty deed for the people that own them. These people love to have their picture taking with the flag behind them or next to them. The reason they do this is they know how much the flag means to us. They know we know what it stands for so they play along. In doing so they fully admit that they know what the Constitution is all about. These pictures I believe are damning evidence at their treason trials. Proving they knew right from wrong but willing did criminal acts against the Constitution and the oath they took. Anyone think I have a point?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-60116609312941123102009-02-21T23:39:00.000-06:002009-02-21T23:39:00.000-06:00No calumny here - just a hearty 'well done'...No calumny here - just a hearty 'well done'... and many of us, of Celtic ancestry, have a sort of inborn tender spot in the heart for heroes of any nationality who stood firm, no matter the odds, without fear... to do what was right.<BR/>Oddly - for weeks now I have been thinking how prophetic, though not at all eloquent like the verses in your article, were the lyrics of an old Ted Nugent song, "Stormtroopin':... which had nothing at all to do with WWII or paranoia, and everything to do with a direction that he saw our central government heading. The Motor City Madman ( a total second amendment supporter among other good things) wrote these words in 1974-75, over 35 years ago... if you've never heard the song, some of the words are:<BR/><BR/>'In the early morning hours there's a din in the air; <BR/>Mayhem's on the loose. <BR/>Stormtroopers comin', and you better be prepared. <BR/>Got no time to choose. <BR/><BR/>Get ready. Get ready. Get ready. <BR/>Stormtroopers comin'. <BR/>Get ready. <BR/><BR/>Comin' up that street, jackboots steppin' high. <BR/>Got to make your stand. <BR/>They're looking in your windows and listenin' to your phone. <BR/>Keep a gun in your hand.'<BR/><BR/>copyrights, et all, solely Ted Nugent's of course... if you like r&r and want to support the guy, you can still find that track.<BR/><BR/>PS - I also hope to see our role model, MV, at the approaching Birmingham Gun Show...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-80905140011790363112009-02-21T22:11:00.000-06:002009-02-21T22:11:00.000-06:00That's awesome. I'll claim it,fight for it,and eve...That's awesome. I'll claim it,fight for it,and even die for it.<BR/><BR/>My grandfather and great uncles didn't fight and survive in the Pacific and the Bulge to have this Flag and Country spun to what it is today,to be destroyed from within.<BR/><BR/>And I remain ready.<BR/><BR/> CIIIchris hortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15267478743755509478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7575061201749703300.post-57643438047999089592009-02-21T22:04:00.000-06:002009-02-21T22:04:00.000-06:00Now you tell me its part of the book that I have w...Now you tell me its part of the book that I have with intent not read any of because I don't want to spoil it. I wanted to read it from page one to the last and let the book take my on its journey. Full effect no previews.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com