A thanks to our troops

[Flying Scotsman]

This video comes courtesy of Paddy and it says it all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7TXBuVUQJw

Douggie

[Flying Scotsman]

I am very surprised there is no answer to this song. Way to go ANZAC'S

Douggie

[egneg]

Reminds me of the reception the nam vets got when they came home.

[Flying Scotsman]

You Yanks have to live up to bravery not braverdo. I have seen too many silly hollywood films.
I will listen to the lads who fought in all wars and were crushed with the end result. My father included.. A true warrior but he was very upset with the end and start of political events that came after the second world war. He was a Colonel

Douggie

[egneg]

You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 - 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.
You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come.
He's coming anyway.
And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board.
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses.
And, he kept coming back.... 13 more times..... And took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman,died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise, ID ......May God rest his soul.....

I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we sure were told a whole bunch about some hip-hop Coward

beating the crap out of his "girlfriend"

[Flying Scotsman]

Amen, and I can not say any more. thank you to the troops

Douggie

[Xzessperated]

Douggie here is another song that shows the war is not over when it is over. Many of the soldiers have their lives shattered forever.
Yes we should thank them for our freedom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv24elfqC-I

I will put the lyrics below as our Jimmy is a bit of a screamer...

I left my heart to the sappers 'round Khe Sahn
And I sold my soul with my cigarettes, to a black market man
I've had to Vietnam cold turkey, from the ocean to the silver city
And it's only other vets could understa-and
'Bout the long forgotten dockside guarantees
How there were no V-day heroes in nineteen seventy-three
How we sailed into Sydney Harbour, I saw an old friend but I couldn't kiss her
And she was lined, and I was home to the lucky land
She was like so many more from that time on
Their lives were all so empty, until they'd found there chosen one
And their legs were often open but their minds were always closed
And their hearts were held in fast suburban chains
And the legal pads were yellow, hours long paypackets lean
And the telex writers clattered where the gunships once had been
The carparks made me jumpy and I never stopped the dreams
Or the growing need for speed and novacaine
So I worked across the country from end to end
I tried to find a place to settle down, where my mixed up life could mend
I held a job on an oil-rig, a-flyin' choppers when I could
But the nightlife nearly drove me round the bend
And I've travelled round the world from year to year-ear-ear
And each one found me aimless, one more year the worse for wear
And I've been back to South East Asia, you know the answer sure ain't there
But I'm driftin' north to check things out agai-ai-ain
Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost go-one
And only seven flyin' hours, till I'll be landin' in Hong Kong
And there ain't nothin' like the kisses from a jaded Chinese princess
I'm gonna hit some Hong Kong mattress all night lo-ong
Well the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone

[andym]

Amen Paddy, I have petitioned the Government to make this our National Anthem with no response. My 11 year old daughter knows the words to this but not our national anthem!