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Track 01 : Texas on the 1630 expressTomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-21-08 02:01 PM
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2. Hell, my family was a clan of ...
immigrant CRIMINALS when they arrived in what is now Angelina County, Texas, in 1630.
Most of them probably should have been taken out and shot.
Thank heavens they didn't arrive just last year.
I am with you 100%, H2S.
http://www.democraticunde...l&address=389x3042765TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-09-05 12:43 AM
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33. Ummm...
You should know that I am from a family that has been in TX since 1630, and I hate what that "man" has done to our state and to our country...
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Aug-09-05 01:28 AM
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48. relax
awtlaw from TX in northbay CA...I know my way around horses, not like some frat boy from CT.
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Aug-09-05 01:22 AM
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46. ID Card
Pretty much everything that he had seen and done. Yes, very scary. I spend a LOT of time in hub-airports - and see a lot of soldiers coming and going...and it is very hard to see these young (and sometimes not so young) men and women going to that awful, terrible place on our behalf... it is just so damn hard sometimes...especially when their wives and children get to go to the gate to seem them off to whatever the future holds for them - may we never see them on the news.
In the airports, if they have sand on their boots and suitcases, they are coming home - if not, they are headed to a place we do not want to imagine.
Viet Nam Vet from TX who hates Bush.
P.S. They actually make the soldiers in uniform take their boots off going thru airport security. How messed up is THAT!!!? What are they fighting for anyway?
http://sync.democraticund...l&address=104x4291926TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-17-06 12:49 AM
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90. There is no link....
I know them.
Google "Mercedes Baker Whittington" and see what happens.
Try to find out find anything of consequence about any of the Bakers except James A III.
Greatest Janitor Ever.
My family has been in what is now known as Texas since 1630.
I know them
http://www.democraticunde...ll&address=364x448048TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Oct-11-07 10:21 PM
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12. Thank you. I am going to bookmark this and learn something.
And I always watch my back.
Except on a Friday night, two weeks ago.
I was walking home from Servino around one or two in the morning.
Weaving along the sidewalk on Main Street, I encountered a dumpster that was just begging to be peed on.
And I was all too willing to oblige.
Never saw or heard the cop car.
He knew me, but asked for my ID as he had radioed in the public urination call.
My ID has a Texas address.
So he drove me home and helped me down the (102) stairs from my parking deck to my front door.
Banged on the door, cop-like.
My just-awakened girlfriend comes to the door and he asked her if I lived there.
She looked straight at me and said, "For the time being".
And that is when my most recent problems began.
http://www.democraticunde...l&address=389x2024958TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Apr-20-07 07:36 PM
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1. I remember when a friend of mine called me and told me he was going to kill himself.
So we drove over to his house and found him surrounded by Houston cops in his front yard, AK47 at his feet and his truck shot full of holes.
I hollered at him from the street and asked him just what the hell did he think he was doing.
He said that he had changed his mind and decided to kill his truck instead of himself.
The cops asked me how I knew what was going on and I told them that we had been in the service together and that I was really worried about him.
They let me go up to him, take his hand and lead him down the driveway like a child.
Then they jumped us both, hog-tied Paul and handcuffed me (for "safety's sake" they would later testify).
Hauled him off to jail.
Paul hanged himself in jail that night.
He did not kill himself.
Vietnam killed him.
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat Apr-21-07 02:12 AM
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11. I can still see his face (without even closing my eyes)
Edited on Sat Apr-21-07 02:20 AM by TomInTib
Looking at me while they were hauling him away.
Looking at me and searching for a little Hope.
All I knew was that I would never see him again.
And I think he knew it.
Paul was a Tunnel Rat, you see.
Then they sent him to Ranger school.
Ballsiest guy I ever knew.
Not brave, just crazy and fearless.
If he had not have died, he probably never would have lived.
Damn, that old Machine just keeps on slashing, gnashing, wasting more of us every day.
http://www.democraticunde...ll&address=389x719819TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sat Mar-17-07 11:42 PM
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10. I cannot figure it out.
Without going into a lot of detail (which would bring me all manner of grief on DU), I have a whole lot of experience regarding this sort of thing.
This business makes no sense to me at all.
Unless DPW will be the contracted operator under AIGGIG.
http://www.democraticunde...l&address=102x2771103TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-29-07 06:15 PM
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7. All here who have been around nukes have been saying the same thing.
Edited on Mon Oct-29-07 06:16 PM by TomInTib
I spent some TDA guarding missiles on Naval warships.
And I will attest to “All security forces assigned are authorized to use deadly force to protect the weapons from any threat .”
Shoot first, figure it out later.
http://www.democraticunde...ll&address=103x317635TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-05-07 08:12 PM
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3. I knew some guys that were in that exercise.
They were SF stationed on a Destroyer Escort with nuke sims (they were guarding said "nukes"). As they were on the starboard rail having a smoke, a Russian sub surface about 100 yards away.
That fucking sub had gone completely undetected by all of those warships.
They said the Brass was crapping in their collective pants.
I didn't believe them until I saw the pics later.
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-05-07 08:45 PM
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5. Seriously.
Heads rolled.
In '72 I was on a DE called the USS Rathburne (since converted to something else) DE1057 (I think), escorting the USS Enterprise in WestPac and pulling the same duty as my friends were. I was on covalescent leave and that is how the Navy let me spend it, instead of going home to patch up.
The Commander was a total asshole named Chang, the first Chinese-born Commander of a US Naval warship.
Same fucking thing happened except it was not a joint exercise.
And the boat I was on had just come out of drydock in Pearl and had a state-of-the-art rubber sonar dome - the first one ever installed. The boat was the designated pinger of the Carrier Group and totally missed it.
They could've sunk the fucking Enterprise.
Chang lost his command over that one.
I want to send you a hilarious Chang story tomorrow. PM me a reminder, if you will.
TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Sep-06-07 12:16 PM
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14. Really?
He was a motherfucker.
I still have a cap (with scrambled-egg bill) I stole from him and the commissioning pennant from that boat is hanging above my desk. I walked off that stinking ship with it wrapped around my right leg. They knew I had it, but I was SEAL and untouchable.
The cap issue made him crazy.
Did you serve under that rat bastard?
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