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Taco-Grinder · Nov 11, 2021

I gots to go to the dentist today.

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A special thanks to our TW50+ veterans, over the years many have become distant friends, and give me something to do everyday by watching and interjection in to this forum!!
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RJ
Thats got to be one of the nicest things I've ever read on TW.
Looking forward to meeting up with you again at EAA Air Venture

Pointeman · Nov 11, 2021

Good Morning. Happy Veterans Day. Forever grateful for those who have served and sacrificed on our behalf. Thank you! You will be in our thoughts and prayers today.
Stay Well…Stay Safe

Tacman19 · Nov 11, 2021

Quick one.
Zim

MTgirl · Nov 11, 2021

Gentlemen and veterans... Thank you

US Marine · Nov 11, 2021

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Quick one.
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US Marine · Nov 11, 2021

Copied from the Military forum "Calling all Marines Past and Present "

WHAT IS A VET?

Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity.

Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking.

What is a vet?

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.

He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.

She is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

He is the POW who went away one person and came back another....or didn't come back AT ALL.

He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat....but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.

He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.

He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.

He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb of the Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket....palsied now and aggravatingly slow.... who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being.... a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.

So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You.

That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.

Remember November 11th is Veterans Day

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.

It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag."

Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC
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dewayne · Nov 11, 2021

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In my Will I will leave you my deer antler collection.
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wait a minute Dan. i just assumed those would be mine

dewayne · Nov 11, 2021

Good Morning

Lurkin · Nov 11, 2021

dewayne said: ↑

wait a minute Dan. i just assumed those would be mine
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Ass-U-Me

MTgirl · Nov 11, 2021

Lurkin said: ↑

"Real" lefty, or one that has quite alot of ambidextrous built in due to society norms?
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i am a true lefty.
i throw left, bat left, write left, guitar left (tried right but wasn't getting anywhere, switched left made as much progress in 2 weeks as i had 6 months playing right), fork and knife in the left hand (i switch my knife to my left to cut and then fork back to left to pick up the food, fish left
the only things i do righty is my computer mouse but thats more from job norms. having a left handed desk set up when you have a 200 sheet set of architectural drawings rolled out on the desk (usually 36"w x 24"h and bound on the left 24" edge) you need to be sitting on the free side of the paper not the bound side so it makes sense to have the drawings on your left and mouse on your right or everything is too far out of reach and just wonky
and that reminds me of another lefty thing - back in the olden days when i was in college and learning to be a drafter I had a left handed set up for my drafting arm. and i always did my drawings right to left to avoid smudging
this would be a right handed drafting desk

Lurkin · Nov 11, 2021

MTgirl said: ↑

i am a true lefty.
i throw left, bat left, write left, guitar left (tried right but wasn't getting anywhere, switched left made as much progress in 2 weeks as i had 6 months playing right), fork and knife in the left hand (i switch my knife to my left to cut and then fork back to left to pick up the food, fish left
the only things i do righty is my computer mouse but thats more from job norms. having a left handed desk set up when you have a 200 sheet set of architectural drawings rolled out on the desk (usually 36"w x 24"h and bound on the left 24" edge) you need to be sitting on the free side of the paper not the bound side so it makes sense to have the drawings on your left and mouse on your right or everything is too far out of reach and just wonky
and that reminds me of another lefty thing - back in the olden days when i was in college and learning to be a drafter I had a left handed set up for my drafting arm. and i always did my drawings right to left to avoid smudging
this would be a right handed drafting desk

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"smudging" is the worst for just about anything. I am more on the ambi side, I write left, bat right, but throw left (?), rackets I can switch if I want, if I learn anything new I try to learn it right just since it's easier to get stuff for it. I learned to golf right handed.

By "real" I meant the pronounced lefty hook. I'd read some studies before that said the more of a writing hook you have the less ambi you seem to be able to do.

MTgirl · Nov 11, 2021

Lurkin said: ↑

"smudging" is the worst for just about anything. I am more on the ambi side, I write left, bat right, but throw left (?), rackets I can switch if I want, if I learn anything new I try to learn it right just since it's easier to get stuff for it. I learned to golf right handed.

By "real" I meant the pronounced lefty hook. I'd read some studies before that said the more of a writing hook you have the less ambi you seem to be able to do.
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Yeah, I don't do the wonky pen grip. And I've been told my penmanship looks righty

CVYota · Nov 11, 2021

MTgirl said: ↑

Gentlemen and veterans... Thank you

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RBF

Tacman19 · Nov 11, 2021

I did not reenlist.
Zim

dewayne · Nov 11, 2021

feeling good today,rest in peace Dusty Hill

Tacman19 · Nov 11, 2021

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Yeah, I don't do the wonky pen grip. And I've been told my penmanship looks righty

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Don’t know why, but I can write in cursive, with both Hands, forward on the right, and in reverse on the left all at the same time.
Strange.
Zim

Taco-Grinder · Nov 11, 2021

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wait a minute Dan. i just assumed those would be mine
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You get the 2 wall mounts.

And the garage fridge filled with Yellow Labels, but you have to share with @MoneyMan55

Taco-Grinder · Nov 11, 2021

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feeling good today,rest in peace Dusty Hill
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And another one

https://youtu.be/6c7d8BYJy8I

CVYota · Nov 11, 2021

Tacman19 said: ↑

I did not reenlist.
Zim

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Cool, is that your backyard?

CVYota · Nov 11, 2021

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