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Captain Kangaroo passed away on January 23, 2004 as age 76, which is odd, because he always looked to be 76. (DOB: 6/27/27) His death reminded me of the following story.

Some people have been a bit offended that the actor, Lee Marvin, is buried in a grave alongside 3- and 4-star generals at Arlington National Cemetery .  His marker gives his name, rank (PVT) and service (USMC).  Nothing else.  Here's a guy who was only a famous movie star who served his time, why the heck does he rate burial with these guys?  Well, following is the amazing answer:



In a time when many Hollywood stars served their country in the armed  forces often in rear echelon posts where they were carefully protected, only to  be trotted out to perform for the cameras in war bond  promotions, Lee Marvin was a genuine hero.  He won the Navy Cross at Iwo Jima.  There is only one higher Naval award...  the  Medal Of Honor!



If that is a surprising comment on the true character of the man, he credits his sergeant with an even greater show of bravery. 

Dialog from "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson":  His guest was Lee Marvin. Johnny said, "Lee, I'll bet a lot of people are unaware that you were a Marine in the initial landing at Iwo Jima ...and that during the course of that action you earned the Navy Cross and were severely wounded." 

 

 

"Yeah, yeah... I got shot square in the bottom and they gave me the Cross for securing a hot spot about halfway up Suribachi.  Bad thing about getting shot up on a mountain is guys gettin' shot hauling you down.  But, Johnny, at Iwo , I served under the bravest man I ever knew... We both got the Cross the same day, but what he did for his Cross made mine look cheap in comparison.  That dumb guy actually stood up on  Red   Beach and directed his troops to move forward and get the hell off the beach. Bullets flying by, with mortar rounds landing everywhere and he stood there as the main target of gunfire so that he could get his men to safety.  He did this on more than one occasion because his men's safety was more important than his own life.

That Sergeant and I have been lifelong friends.  When they brought me off Suribachi, we passed the Sergeant and he lit a smoke and passed it to me, lying on my belly on the litter and said, "Where'd they get you Lee?"  "Well Bob... if you make it home before me, tell Mom to sell the outhouse!"

 

Johnny, I'm not lying, Sergeant  Keeshan was the bravest man I ever knew.  
The Sergeant's name is Bob Keeshan.  You and the world know him as Captain Kangaroo."

 

 

On another note, there was this wimpy little man (who recently passed away) on PBS, gentle and quiet.  Mr. Rogers is another of those you would least suspect of being anything but what he now portrays to our youth.  But Mr. Rogers was a U.S. Navy Seal, combat-proven in Vietnam with over twenty-five confirmed kills to his name.  He wore a long-sleeved sweater on TV, to cover the many tattoos on his forearm and biceps.  He was a master in small arms and hand-to-hand combat, able to disarm or kill in a heartbeat.

 

 

 

After the war Mr. Rogers became an ordained Presbyterian minister and therefore a pacifist.  Vowing to never harm another human and also dedicating the rest of his life to trying to help lead children on the right path in life. He hid away the tattoos and his past life and won our hearts with his quiet wit and charm.

 

America's real heroes don't flaunt what they did; they quietly go about their day-to-day lives, doing what they do best.  They earned our respect and the freedoms that we all enjoy.
Look around and see if you can find one of those heroes in your midst.
Often, they are the ones you'd least suspect, but would most like to have on your side if anything ever happened.

Take the time to thank anyone that has fought for our freedom. With encouragement they could be the next Captain Kangaroo or Mr. Rogers.

 

Send this on, will you please? Nothing will happen to you if you don't, but you will be telling others what a HERO is made of. 

 

1. The Olympics have been hijacked once too often to make a political point and it's obvious that the Communist government of China is using them for that purpose as well.

2. The Communists' continued repression and oppression of the Tibetan people.

3. The People's Republic of China's blatant disregard of quality control in manufacturing and industry.

4. Their cavalier dismissal of any concerns about the plight of their ethnic minorities.

5. Their systematic harrassment of ALL religious expressions within their borders.

6. Their continued support of the murderous, megalomaniacal monster in control of North Korea.

7. And personally speaking: I'm sick to death of those lousy, atheistic, illegitimate offspring of pigs and dogs being all the younger generation knows about one of the world's most ancient and cultured civilizations. For their destruction of ALL that beauty, wisdom and peace, I condemn them. I abhor them. I castigate them. I would, if I could, cast them into hell's hottest fires!

So don't expect to see yours truly at the Summer Olympics in Beijing.

 

I herewith pledge that from now on, I will NEVER refer to the membership, the supporters or the leaders of any terrorist group as Muslims, Mohammedans, worshippers of Allah, or Islamic. Not nohow, not noway. Why?

Because it is a lie. Those who are part of or who support by funds or recruits Al-Queda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and their ilk are NOT MUSLIMS!!!!!! They are Wahabists, a death cult! Akin to the Thuggees of the 19th century who killed in the name of their goddess Kali. They were NOT HINDUS! And these scumbags are no more Muslim than Adolph Hitler was a practising Jew.

When the driving force of your belief system boils down to "do everything my way or I will kill you horribly", that is NOT Islam, the salient verses and suras of the Q'uran notwithstanding. Our own Old Testament is rife with that kind of primitive misunderstanding of God. So are their Holy writings.

God, by whatever name you call Him and by whatever facets of His infinite Being you can grasp, is always a God of LIFE. And these Wahabists are a people obsessed with death, theirs, yours, mine, everyone's. They are NOT worshippers of God by any name.

They are more like a conglomerate of David Koresh and Jim Jones. Little tinpot dictator wannabes with delusions of godhood.

Not the sort of people you'd want to know socially. Or to introduce your family to. Or to share a neighborhood with. Not even if the "neighborhood" is taken as the planet in its entirety. Can't we send them somewhere they cannot force their brand of tyranny upon us all? Hmmmm...I got a notion. Let's try this. Have Governor Perry declare open season on all Wahabists. Sell Texans (and for these purposes anyone who wants can be considered a Texan for the duration) hunting licenses (the State Parks and Wildlife people will love that!), and let us go take care of the infestation!

YEEHAH! Remember the Alamo....er, I mean 9/11!

Lemme see if I got this straight.

Democrats went to the polls in record numbers here in Texas and more of them wanted Hillary Clinton than wanted Barack Obama. But somehow or other the actual NUMBER of votes going to each is decided at caucauses after the polls close and according to those Barack gets more votes than Hillary. HUH!?

Maybe it's my poor benighted Republican straightforwardness, but I always thought it was supposed to be one person, one vote PERIOD! Silly unsophisticated moi.

Apparently the Democratic Party has figured a way to obviate the will of the people in favor of its own personal choice. Verrrry interestink!

And of course, then there's the party honcho who declared that because a few Democratic higher-ups squabbled publicly that every Democratic voter in two states (Michigan and Florida, I believe) are to be punished by being disenfranchised. Hmmmmm. You know, I'm old enough to remember another time and place that very much the same thing happened with regularity. It was called the Soviet Union and every time the people went to the polls and voted for someone the Party didn't particularly like, they simply negated the vote and told the people "tough cookies". Looks like at least one of our political parties was there taking notes.

I understand that Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama, John McCain and Mitt Romney are all currently engaged in a favored political pastime, viz and to whit: MY political record is more consistent than yours. Of course, they're frequently using language better fitted to the grown-up equivalent of two little kids squabbling over the outcome of a round of cowboys and Indians...Lie down! I shot you dead! No you didn't! Yes I did! NO! YES! etc, etc, ad nauseam.

For what it's worth and just in case someone on one or the other's side ever reads this, here's what I think.

A) I don't give a rat's patootie what you USED to think about an issue. What I want to know is, if you have changed your mind, WHY? What did you learn different from what you knew when you held the old opinion? And what changes in your plan for redressing the wrong have you got in place to activate if you win the Oval Office?

B) Can you show that it's YOUR mind that's making itself up and not the mindset of the last person to catch your ear?

C) And do any of you have a plan for our future that you haven't privately labeled "TOP SECRET, burn before the media prints it"?  And if so, would you stop wasting our time with your name-calling and mud-slinging and get on with explaining it to us. Guess what, candidates? Most of us out here in Realityland DO have IQ's sufficiently higher than that of a begonia to actually understand what you're positing as a path to a brighter future.

D) If you do not have such a plan, then would you PLEASE shut the H E double hockeysticks up and get off the stage?!

E) For the record, I'm voting for Mike Huckabee in the Primary and if he wins the nomination, then I'll vote for him in Nov. He's the ONLY candidate I've heard so far who actually not only says what he thinks is wrong, but gives you his ideas on how it should be made right. MY kinda man! He may not be the brightest, but at least he isn't insulting my intelligence by yakking about nothing and pretending that it means something! Forget about "hope". Gimme a PLAN that might work to make that hope a reality!!! If I agree, I'll back it AND you.

A man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.

"Very few people were true Nazis "he said,"but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools.

So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories."

We are told again and again by "experts" and talking heads" that Islam is the religion of peace,and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace.

Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.

It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims. The hard quantifiable fact is that the "peaceful majority",  the "silent majority", is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murders of about  20 million people. The peaceful majority were  irrelevant. China 's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And, who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were "peace loving"?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:  Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will  have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Lastly, at the risk of offending, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problem to expand.

So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world wide, read this - think about it - and send it on.

Did my bit. Your turn.

We rarely get a chance to see another country's editorial about the USA.


Read this excerpt from a Romanian Newspaper. The article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title 'C'ntarea Americii, meaning 'Ode To America ' in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentulzilei 'The Daily Event' or 'News of the Day' & nbsp; ~An Ode to America~

Why are Americans so united?  They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color!  They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs.
Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart.
Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the Army, or the Secret Service that they are only a bunch of losers. 
Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. 
Nobody rushed out onto the streets nearby to gape about. 
Instead the Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand.


After the first moments of panic, they raised their flag over the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a government official or the president was passing. On every occasion, they started singing:'God Bless America!'
 
I watched the live broadcast and rerun after rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who gave his life fighting with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that could have killed other hundreds or thousands of people.


How on earth were they able to respond united as one human being?  Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put into a! collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit, which no money can buy.


What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? 
Their land?  Their history? Their economic Power?  Money? 
I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases with the risk of sounding commonplace, I thought things over, I reached but only one conclusion... Only freedom can work such miracles.

Cornel Nistorescu

(This deserves to be passed around the Internet forever.)  It took a person on the outside - looking in - to see what we  take for granted !    GOD BLESS AMERICA ! !

 

 

1. Cows

2. The Constitution

3. The Ten Commandments

C O W S

Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington ? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country.  Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

T H E    C O N S T I T U T I O N

They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq . Why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.

T H E   1 0    C O M M A N D M E N T S

The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this:

You cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery," and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians...It creates a hostile work environment.

E-mail received this AM. Thought y'all might like the giggle. And might think the thought too. 

On the war in Iraq: Don't care why it started. It served to fixate the terrorists on THAT country instead of mine. That's a good thing.

On the upcoming elections: To ALL the politicians out there stumping and harrumphing: SHADDUP already! You clowns keep this up and by the time the Iowa Caucauses are due you won't get anyone but each other to the polls. The rest of us will be fed up!

On "going green": Talk about locking the barn door after all the horses are gone!

On Chinese corruption: Seems the oh so pure and noble communists are just as prone to being bad, bad boys as we of the "corrupt" west. He who laughs last, laughs longest. HAHAHAHAHahAHahAHahAHAHahahAHahahahah ETC.

On Humanity: You're God's bright idea, not mine. I wanted Him to stop with kittens and butterflies, but oh no, He hadda have His "images". And look what he got for all His trouble and care!?

On "LIFE": a great magazine, otherwise more of a disappointment than not, more often than not.