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30 Sep 2004 09:10:43 PM |
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OT: Photoshopped Propoganda Posters |
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| User: "The other Donald" |
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| Title: Re: Photoshopped Propoganda Posters |
30 Sep 2004 04:15:59 PM |
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<stoney@the.net> wrote in message
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http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=3503&start=1&end=10&display=photoshop
I also liked the "Holy CRAP! They're shooting back! Are they allowed to do
that?"
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-Donald in Austin
AA #2104
Apatriot #22
Atheist FF/EMT
.....and ordained minister
Stork pin recipient: May 1, 2003 -Madelyn
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Photoshopped Propoganda Posters |
01 Oct 2004 09:23:44 PM |
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:15:59 GMT, "The other Donald"
<the_donald_13@yehaww2.com> wrote:
<stoney@the.net> wrote in message
news:v3fpl0ptaklvapp4rp69fsmhhocnmvni77@4ax.com...
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=3503&start=1&end=10&display=photoshop
I also liked the "Holy CRAP! They're shooting back! Are they allowed to do
that?"
:))
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Vote for Bush. Why vote for the lesser of two evils?
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| User: "The other Donald" |
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| Title: Re: Photoshopped Propoganda Posters |
30 Sep 2004 04:12:54 PM |
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<stoney@the.net> wrote in message
news:v3fpl0ptaklvapp4rp69fsmhhocnmvni77@4ax.com...
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=3503&start=1&end=10&display=photoshop
This one has always gotten an emotional rise from me. Almost brings a tear:
TinyURL:
http://tinyurl.com/6w7d2
Original:
http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/PD--10087829/sOrig--CAT/sOrigID--8839/Vietnam_Reflections.htm?ui=EADEB5267B3D47C4A8CDAF5CB482BD0A
Both of my mom's brothers are Vietnam vets, one of whom I'm named after
(Donald).
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-Donald in Austin
AA #2104
Apatriot #22
Atheist FF/EMT
.....and ordained minister
Stork pin recipient: May 1, 2003 -Madelyn
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Photoshopped Propoganda Posters |
01 Oct 2004 09:23:28 PM |
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:12:54 GMT, "The other Donald"
<the_donald_13@yehaww2.com> wrote:
<stoney@the.net> wrote in message
news:v3fpl0ptaklvapp4rp69fsmhhocnmvni77@4ax.com...
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=3503&start=1&end=10&display=photoshop
This one has always gotten an emotional rise from me. Almost brings a tear:
Poignant indeed.
TinyURL:
http://tinyurl.com/6w7d2
Original:
http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/PD--10087829/sOrig--CAT/sOrigID--8839/Vietnam_Reflections.htm?ui=EADEB5267B3D47C4A8CDAF5CB482BD0A
Both of my mom's brothers are Vietnam vets, one of whom I'm named after
(Donald).
(I wrote the following in 1998)
Time stealthily passes until something draws attention to it.
It can be a song you haven't heard for awhile that is as familiar as
your heartbeat, and the announcer astounds you by saying when it was
recorded. "Has it been that long?" you say to yourself.
Changes and events can also measure time. Not long ago, I
started a search for a large photograph of both ships I was on. I got
nowhere until a person told me about a Naval Vessel Register website.
It took some digging, but I found references to the first
ship I was on.
In the course of my investigations I came across a referent
book in the Navy Library back in Washington, D.C.. The book was
thought to be published in 1991 and there was no record of it as being
in print, or out of print via bookstore computer databases. However,
there was publisher data, so I called the publisher. One question the
publisher had was if the book was a cruise book, or not. Between the
type of ship and the title of the book this was unclear.
The publisher thought the book was sub-contracted to a smaller
publisher and would try to do some digging and come up with the
author. I never heard back from them, so I called the Navy library
as, from the site, it wasn't clear if the book was on the shelf
available for inter-library loan, or they had several copies for sale.
I was told that the book was available for loan, but the book could
not leave the public library I had it sent to.
I arranged for the loan and when it arrived I went in to look
at it. Yes, on the Navy website it was listed in the Cruise book
section, but the title made things ambiguous. The title was accurate.
It was both a history and a cruise book. Looking at the photographs
brought back a lot of memories. Of course, the pictures of the last
crew from 1991 didn't mean much, except for an event, which does mark
the time passage.
There was joy and sadness. In 1985, to commemorate the 25th
anniversary of "Site One," which was the designator of the site the
ships occupied, a memorial was set up on the Castle Library grounds in
Dunoon, Scotland. Last February/March I was back in Dunoon for a few
short hours. I was probably less than 200 yards from that memorial
during my search for another obelisk, but, of course, I was unaware of
it.
In the book, there was even a section of a letter that a
former crew member had written to the Navy's "All Hands" magazine
chiding them for doing a story on another dry dock that rarely had any
usage. He listed statistics and honors that the ship accrued
during its long and illustrious life. The ship carried no guns, or
torpedoes, but its efforts were more deadly. While I was there, we
were fully aware that Russia had ICBM's dialed in. The standing joke
was if the balloon ever went up, we would paint a bullseye
at the center of the ship, flood [sink so the wingwalls, upright
walls, were five feet above sea level] all the way down and score the
missile hit.
What was so deadly about an unarmed ship? Simple. The ship
was 513 feet long and had a lift capacity of 32,000 tons. It
routinely raised submarines out of the water for repair and could have
dry-docked a submarine tender. It was a mobile advanced repair
facility with full capabilities. The crew `turned and burned', at
times pulling off astonishing feats. I recall that we were
decommissioned for a three-month refit period. The basin, where the
sub sits, had over half the submarine cradle missing and was full of
equipment, lumber and other items.
The Commander of the whole site [COMSUBRON14-Commander
Submarine Squadron-14] got a radio transmission from a sub with a
poisoned reactor. He took a look at us and radioed the sub that
minimum time before it could be docked was one week. An officer came
into the crew's lounge about 9 p.m., turned on the lights, and
turned off the movie projector. He told everyone that it was time to
get to work as there was a sub coming in with a poisoned reactor. The
Shore Patrol [Military Police] was sent to pull the crew out of the
bars and their various homes. Even Chief Petty Officers were
carrying lumber and doing whatever needed to be done. The cranes were
busy yanking stuff out of the basin and stacking it anywhere on the
fifty-foot tall wingwalls.
Carpenters got busy rebuilding that cradle. It all had to be done,
and done right, or that sub could topple when it was lifted out of the
water. The way this was done was the dry dock sank until only
five-foot of the wingwalls remained above water. Tugs positioned
the submarine and then 2-1/2 inch nylon line wrapped around large
motorized capstans reeled it in. 15,000 g.p.m. pumps then pumped the
water from the basin and the dry-dock rose, renewed, from Davy Jones's
Locker. The Commodore had indicated a minimum time of one week. By
0730 the following morning that sub was resting comfortably in its
cradle. For that item we crew received the Battle Efficiency Ribbon.
The crew worked hard and played hard. The full component of
personnel was only 165. Sub crews were about 100, while there was
1,500 on the sub tender. In the enlisted club there were booths
surrounding the postage stamp dance floor. This area was
known as "Docker's Corner." No one sat in that area, without
invitation, if the "dockers" were there, in any numbers. One time the
beer cans were pyramided and a person off the tender threw a beer can
knocking the pile over. I just closed my eyes, visualizing
carnage. The individual was told to leave before his ***** got kicked.
He left. Some time later he came back and set a half a case of beer
on the table. He was told to leave. Some time later he came back and
set another half case on the table. Someone kicked a chair
out for him and told him to have a seat.
Times change. That dry dock was new construction being towed
to the Pacific when the war ended. It was then mothballed in Florida
until 1961 when it was towed to Holy Loch, Scotland. The townspeople
were up in arms as this meant the targeting of the area by Russian
nukes. In 1991 the long saga of a valiant, and unglamorous, ship came
to an end when it was decommissioned. It was the end of that book and
the starting of another, for it was not scrapped like the Guided
Missile Destroyer I was on. It was sold and the appearances are that
it is still in use, for something. The records do not say what.
The dry dock was built in an era of multiple segregation. The
era of race segregation ended within ten years of its construction.
It took another forty plus years to end gender discrimination. Yes,
in some of those photos there are females lined up in their dress
blues. What was once the Crew's Lounge was converted to female
berthing. So that ship saw the full gamut of discrimination, and in
it's last year and a half, it saw the end as well.
There remains little of that sub base. The buildings in town
were sold and converted and all the buildings just off the dock were
torn down. Oh, the pier with the Shore Patrol shack and British
Customs shack at the land end is still there, as is the
building at the far end where the crew waited for the small craft to
transport them to the anchored ships. The new asphalt covered
parking lot that was wrestled from the sea just before I left is time
cracked and weather-beaten. Barges and cranes with magnets are
busy pulling steel from underneath where the ships were anchored. The
mounds of metal must be from the early days as when I was there in the
mid-70's we operated under stringent British law. According to a
newspaper, the cleanup was estimated to take three years, of which one
has past. When that is done, the only remnant of thirty years will be
the memorial and in the memories of the people who were there. In a
snippet of time, only the plaque will remain and the ghostly shouts of
the wind.
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Vote for Bush. Why vote for the lesser of two evils?
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: Photoshopped Propoganda Posters |
30 Sep 2004 02:15:25 PM |
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<stoney@the.net> wrote in message
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Cute! :)
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
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| User: "GlennGlenn" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Photoshopped Propoganda Posters |
30 Sep 2004 02:55:12 PM |
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In article <v3fpl0ptaklvapp4rp69fsmhhocnmvni77@4ax.com>,
<stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=3503&start=
1&end=10&display=photoshop
Remember: Homer is where the hate is!
http://www.worth1000.com/view.asp?entry=139891&display=photoshop
Excellent. Thanks for the link.
--
GlennGlenn -- aa#825 --
I am not famous, I am notorious. And if I am rich, it is because I have taken
my wages in people.
‹ Quentin Crisp
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Photoshopped Propoganda Posters |
01 Oct 2004 09:15:00 PM |
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:55:12 GMT, GlennGlenn
<dipthotdipthot@yahoo.yahoo.com.com> wrote:
In article <v3fpl0ptaklvapp4rp69fsmhhocnmvni77@4ax.com>,
<stoney@the.net> wrote:
http://www.worth1000.com/cache/contest/contestcache.asp?contest_id=3503&start=
1&end=10&display=photoshop
Remember: Homer is where the hate is!
http://www.worth1000.com/view.asp?entry=139891&display=photoshop
Excellent. Thanks for the link.
Welcome.
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Vote for Bush. Why vote for the lesser of two evils?
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