/me salutes
Let no one say those soldiers didn't love their country.

Fuck. I mean... just fuck.
When I was in Iraq, I was a cannoneer, and our howitzer was directly in front of the heli-pad.
We hated helicopters with a passion. They would fly in, blow sand everywhere, be so loud you couldn't hear the guy next to you, and blow down everything you had up. We would curse the whole time they were there. But some helicopters we could only stand still and silent for.
Day after day, I would see a HMMWV ambulance would drive up to the pad and wait for a BlackHawk helicopter with a big red "+" painted on it. They would then offload one or a few Marines to be taken to a hospital, likely to be sent home for good. I always felt sad, but in a way, I was happy that they would be going home.
Then there were the days that HMMWV ambulance would drive up and would have twice the usual Marines standing there than normal, and a CH-46 (Chinook) would fly down.
We all knew that could only mean one thing.
From the HMMWV they would pull out one or more stretchers, covered in American flag, and would load it onto the Ch-46, trying to keep the rotor wash from blowing the flag away revealing the body bag beneath.
I don't think that there was anything harder than watching that.
Almost three years later and I still get watery-eyed at news reports like this. Thanks for the good sift, Calvados.

And thank you for your story, MG, from a fellow (potential) bullet-catcher.

and the madness continues.
they loved their country, died horribly, the dollar is worth about the same as the Lithuanian Litas, and Russia is allied with Iran.

Crap I watched this just before I have to teach and now I'm gonna be all weepy in front of my class...

Must plan better...

Whatever you fucks, prolly a chopper full of rapists .. All you fucks did in Iraq, cunts.

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Useless bastards ... -> we rape for our "cunt"-ry ?? fucking animals.

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Pooki, I'm no Sift expert but I love this place and I do believe you've just violated about every policy and intent this site has to offer. This is a site where intelligent people discuss the world, from cheesy commercials to political uprising and everything in-between, and whatever the content at least those of us who come here try to express our opinions with respect. You show none. Your posts are saddening, ignorant, and the only reason I'm responding is to let you know I'll be nominating you for the *ban hammer. kthxbye.

Invocations (ban) cannot be called by Kevlar because Kevlar is not privileged - sorry.

Whoops - sorry, siftbot!

Jesus, pooki, what the fuck?
Someone please ban this asshole.

pooki, yer about to go away

It's possible to launch a perfectly good flame and at least have it be intelligent as well as offensive. Sucknuts up there should take lessons.

I hope when everything is said and done in Iraq, it was worth what those 12 families had to endure.

I'm kinda glad this unseated the Ottoman Gangbang Five as my top vid.

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