Extra Special VETERANS DAY Truthseeker Thread

[LincolnMcGrath]

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[BigMcLargehuge]

1. beat me by that much!

:)

Tuned in.

he's reading my letter tonight. I am Jeff from Derry.

[ralps]

49. Looks like He's reading your letter.

Congratulations!
:yourock:

[LincolnMcGrath]

55. Have you posted that here Jeff?

[BigMcLargehuge]

56. it's in one of the lounge Veterans Day threads

I will repost it here

[MuseRider]

57. Jeff from Derry

Terrific letter, just terrific. Tears and inspiration and the renewed urge to keep up the good fight here. Kudos, you should post it here for all to read.

I am glad I got to hear it, hubby home I had to turn off the show.

[BigMcLargehuge]

71. it's posted below

thanks for your compliments

[TOhioLiberal]

That was the most powerful thing I've ever heard...

God Bless your Grandfather and your Dad.

[Wind Dancer]

75. What a fine letter!

I'm so glad you shared it - we can't ever forget.

:hug:

[The Minus World]

2. Listening.

Best show on AAR.

[LincolnMcGrath]

9. Welcome MagicSpork

Nice to see you here!

[geomon666]

3. Checking In.

And 940 in Miami better not fucking cut him off again like they did last night.

[LincolnMcGrath]

12. Hello again geoman666

Why not stream?

[geomon666]

17. Cause I'm on the worst dialup ever created...

AOHell.

[LincolnMcGrath]

26. bummer

Dial Up :scared: :argh:

[MuseRider]

4. I never get to listen

but I am tonight since I am home alone. I need a set of headphones. This guy is so good.

[geomon666]

13. Don't use headphones

Turn the speakers towards the windows and blast it into the neighborhood. The truth must be heard!! }(

[MuseRider]

41. Sorry

the neighbors are too far away where I live in the semi boonies. Otherwise I would.

[LincolnMcGrath]

14. Hi MuseRider

How are you tonight?

[MuseRider]

40. I am terrific

considering the circumstances. And you?

[LincolnMcGrath]

45. Doing well here

DUer letter on the show now.

[B Calm]

5. I'm here Lincoln.. Truth Seeker B Calm reporting in

[LincolnMcGrath]

16. Hi B Calm

:hi:

[benito]

6. His Limbaugh quote is fake

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/limbaugh2.asp

And now the liberals want to stop President Reagan from selling chemical warfare agents and military equipment to Saddam Hussein and why? Because Saddam "allegedly" gassed a few Kurds in his own country. Mark my words. All of this talk of Saddam Hussein being a "war criminal" or "committing crimes against humanity" is the same old thing. Liberal hate speech! And speaking of poison gas... I say we round up all the drug addicts and gas them too!

Rush Limbaugh, November 3, 1988

[LincolnMcGrath]

19. I had heard it was questionable

Welcome benito :hi:

[alittlelark]

7. I'm here 'til hubby gets home, and we eat dinner!

[LincolnMcGrath]

20. Hello alittlelark

:hi:

[AgadorSparticus]

8. i'm here!

:hi: so the tanks in the streets of LA are true afterall? cripes.

[Mr X]

21. the tanks video

check it out... http://www.michaelmoore.com

[LincolnMcGrath]

27. Thanks Mr.X

Nice to see you tonight.

[AgadorSparticus]

31. un..freakin...believable! does intimidation really work? i just have

never found that it is an effective motivator. it certainly never worked on me. and most people i know, it would just put the fire under their asses to further engage in whatever behavior or activity that the intimidation was meant to curtail. i gotta go find some local protests....

[LincolnMcGrath]

23. Hi AgadorSparticus

:hi: They never call in the troops for the protesters at the planned parenthood clinics do they?

[AgadorSparticus]

37. hi lincoln. the hypocrisy is just overwhelming sometimes.

[LincolnMcGrath]

51. Tommy Chong went to jail for selling glass.

Eric Rudolph went um.....uh.....Eric is AWOL I guess.

[AgadorSparticus]

63. and the enron bastards are sunbathing in st. tropez.

[ralps]

10. Hi everyone

:loveya:

[LincolnMcGrath]

24. Hi ralps!

:hi:

[quacker]

11. Here!

Checking in from Oregon :)


Kristen

[LincolnMcGrath]

25. Hello again quacker!

How are you tonight?

[quacker]

39. Hello!

I'm ...ok! I live in blue state :eyes:

But I spent the day talking and/or emailing everyone I know trying to spread the word. ;) They are pissed, I'm just helping them along. :pals:

[unkachuck]

15. unka's here....

....in all his radiant beauty.... :)

[LincolnMcGrath]

28. (((donning lead suit)))

Nice to see you uncachuck!

[PoiBoy]

18. PoiBoy checkin' in...

..streaming from Maui..! :hi:

[LincolnMcGrath]

30. Welcome PoiBoy

Hello from Iowa!

[TOhioLiberal]

22. Hi all...

Checking in...

[LincolnMcGrath]

32. Hi TL

How are you doing tonight? :pals:

[TOhioLiberal]

43. Feeling hopeful...

...Had a good interview today...Of course, I've been there before...:shrug:

[LincolnMcGrath]

47. (((Sending good luck vibes)))

I wish you the best, as always.

[Wind Dancer]

29. Checking in!

Hi seekers.

:hi: :grouphug:

[LincolnMcGrath]

33. Hi F D in NC

How are you tonight?

[Wind Dancer]

36. Glad to be here!

Hope you are doing well this evening. :toast:

[LincolnMcGrath]

38. Thanks

Doing well here. :toast:

[cal04]

34. Hi Lincoln, hi all

:hi:

[LincolnMcGrath]

35. Hello cal04

:pals:

[Catherine Vincent]

42. Mike Malloy ROCKS!

He called George W. Bush a PUNK! And I agree with him!

:-)

[LincolnMcGrath]

44. "President Bunny Pants" always cracks me up.

Nice to see you again cat_girl25

[Catherine Vincent]

46. You too, Lincoln.

Was Malloy the one that coined the "bunny pants" name for *?

[LincolnMcGrath]

50. It may have been Bartcop

Have you seen the picture it refers to?

[ralps]

53. Is that the one where * is strapped into his parashute?

[LincolnMcGrath]

59. No

* and pickles dressed as bunnies for easter when Poppy was ruining the econimy.

[crickets]

82. Bzuh?

I missed that. Is there a link for the picture?

[LincolnMcGrath]

83. Lemme look

[LincolnMcGrath]

85. Bunny Pants

[crickets]

107. That's really Dubya and Pickles?!

Bwahahahaha! Oh, man. Thanks for finding that. What a family...

[AgadorSparticus]

48. i was watching saving private ryan before malloy came on.

it's interesting, here in tucson, they are flashing this huge warning sign after the commercials before every lead in---every time. :puke:

i had heard that they were also upset about the violence in the movie. my question is this: are these people that are complaining about saving private ryan the same people who watched the passions of the christ? and took their kids to see that movie? :eyes:

[NightTrain]

52. 10:41 p.m. Just logged on to the webcast five minutes ago.

Howdy, y'all! :hi:

[LincolnMcGrath]

54. Hay NightTrain!

DU letter being read now.

[proud patriot]

58. I'm here

busy as a bee

Wish I could spend more time posting :-(

[LincolnMcGrath]

65. Nice to see you PP

:toast:

[BigMcLargehuge]

60. The letter from Jeff from NH (i.e. me)

Hi Mike

Jeff from Derry, NH here. I hope I am not out of line sending my thoughts on Veterans Day 2004.

I stood in the cold today with a couple of dozen spectators and a few of the surviving veterans of our little town. They wore dress uniforms mostly, and overcoats, to keep their hunched over and frail old bodies protected against the wind beneath a sky the same color as the documentary footage of World War 2 providing most of us with our understanding of their sacrifice.

We stood together and listened to the benediction and some short speeches before a row of granite tablets, you know the kind, listing the names of those killed in battle. Our town, like so many others, maintains a memorial for veterans of The Great War, World War 2, Korea/Vietnam, and Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Persian Gulf conflicts.

This year the service at MacGregor Park was different. The chorus from our local high school was in attendance this time to sing God Bless America. I could see that the kids were nervous not only about singing, but nervous reading the names of town residents killed in the service. I know they were thinking that some of their names would stand inscribed on cold stone along with those of past conflicts, as they will undoubtedly be sent off to spill their blood in the hot Persian sands.

Unlike their predecessors though, their war will not be a great mobilization to defend democracy, or truth, justice, and the American way, but to secure our place as apex predator in the global food chain. As they sang I wept, their voices were so innocent, so beautiful, and so unknowing.

I attended this year’s service, as I do every year, to honor my father and late grandfather and thank them for their self-sacrifice. Though neither was killed in combat they carry and carried both the physical and psychological scars of battle, or innocence lost to fire fights and Kamikaze planes, to the jungles of Southeast Asia and to the oceans of the South Pacific.

My grandfather, Jean Paul Bourbeau, was a sailor, Boatswain’s Mate aboard the USS Bunker Hill. A carpenter by trade, he enlisted at 18, and like millions of others of his generation, trudged off to defend America from outside aggression. During the brief interim between basic training and shipping out he met, married, and honeymooned with the woman who would become my Grandmother. They had two days together as a married couple before he departed to join his ship and head to the Pacific.

His job, aside from ferrying officers from one boat to another, was to count and maintain the body bags brought above decks after an attack.

During the invasion of Okinawa his vessel suffered two Kamikaze hits. He was wounded as a piece of a suicide plane entered and exited his belly, taking much of his stomach with it. That day he joined 263 other wounded, 43 missing, and 364 killed aboard his carrier on the casualty list.

He showed me the scar, a jagged angry fold of stitched skin above his belly button, one summer while we were at the beach. He said that the wound didn’t make itself known until he collapsed from internal bleeding. There was too much going on, he said, fires to fight, ammunition to carry, wounded to drag, dead to identify, and body bags prepare.

He was patched up aboard ship and sent to the Bremerton Naval Base in Washington, unconscious. My grandmother was notified and she undertook a solo train trip across country to join him. Upon her arrival the chaplain there told her that Jean Paul wasn’t expected to live for very long. She braced herself and entered. Beneath his bunk lay a coffin, his coffin.

My grandfather languished there for months alternating between morphine induced peace and searing unholy pain, until, eventually, and miraculously, he healed and was sent home. For his trouble he received a Purple Heart and enough pension to buy a small house for his new family.

Jean-Paul Bourbeau worked the looms at Berkshire Hathaway, and later as a carpenter at Paulding Mills. He filled his spare time with digging clams and carpentry work. Being busy meant he didn’t have to think about the past, and to supplement his low pay from the mill.

He lost his mind, a little, in 1954 during Hurricane Carol when the bridge was swept away releasing the ghosts of dead friends and reopening his memories of the chaos of the fighting. Perhaps it was the roaring wind so like the roar of battle, or the rain that pelted him like bullets, he never spoke about it, but he was different from then on, quiet, moody, and distant.

At night he dulled his nightmares with beer, Carling Black Label, and endless hours of television. Staring vacantly into the tube as Lawrence Welk conducted Polka music or the idiots on Hee Haw made slack jawed faces. He stared as if he was standing on some flight deck somewhere, watching for the planes on the horizon. Sometimes he white-knuckled the arms of his recliner.

Jean Paul Bourbeau disappeared on Thanksgiving in 1983 and was later found, as if sleeping, in the backseat of his old Buick behind a restaurant in the North end of New Bedford. At last at peace, he was buried without much fanfare, only a little flag beside his headstone to commemorate an American life.

Like so many other veterans, when he spoke of his war experiences, it was rare, and vague, and cautionary. He sat on the concrete porch with me a few months before his death, beer in hand, and warned me, “sometimes I think the lucky ones didn’t come back.”

I never understood that until today, watching the old men in their dress uniforms holding back tears for friends lost and horrors past and knowing that for all their sacrifice we haven’t moved ahead. As I listened to the chorus today I thought of my Grandfather, and of my father, and of the countless other veterans whose names sit, inscribed in granite, and of those still among us who battle the nightmares of their past.

And I thought of the kids nervously clutching lyric sheets to America the Beautiful, their innocent worried faces unable to comprehend the lives of the old men listening there, and unaware of their nightmares to come.

I have made it a family tradition to participate in Veterans Day services and remembrances here in New Hampshire, and I intend to teach my son to do the same. The day is far to important to be left to mattress and appliance sales, to lonely old men and cold stone monuments. Our veterans, all veterans, whether serving by circumstance or their own personal choice, deserve more; they deserve our gratitude and our support.

I call my Dad every Veterans Day and thank him, and I thank all the veterans with whom I work personally, and their humility humbles me. My father, Robert Louis DeRego, served in Vietnam from 1961-1964 with the Green Berets. My Grandfather, Jean Paul Bourbeau served aboard the USS Bunker Hill, until wounded, during the invasion of Okinawa, May 11th 1945.

On each Veterans Day I find a poem or poems that express the cost of war and send them to friends and family. This year I send the following.

It Is This Way with Men
by CK Williams

They are pounded into the earth
like nails; move an inch,
they are driven down again.
The earth is sore with them.
It is a spiny fruit
that has lost hope
of being raised and eaten.
It can only ripen and ripen.
And men, they too are wounded.
They too are sifted from their loss
and are without hope. The core
softens. The pure flesh softens
and melts. There are thorns, there
are the dark seeds, and they end.


And this one by Siegfried Sassoon

Does it Matter?

Does it matter?—losing your legs?...
For people will always be kind,
And you need not show that you mind
When the others come in after hunting
To gobble their muffins and eggs.

Does it matter ?—losing your sight?...
There's such splendid work for the blind;
And people will always be kind,
As you sit on the terrace remembering
And turning your face to the light.

Do they matter?—those dreams from the pit?...
You can drink and forget and be glad,
And people won't say that you're mad;
For they'll know you've fought for your country
And no one will worry a bit.

[proud patriot]

64. Thanks for that Big

It warmed my heart

[crickets]

66. Jeff

Now that is fitting tribute to what Veterans Day is truly about. You got me all teared up.

:hug:

[Sparkly]

68. Thank you, Jeff

Other than that I'm speechless. :hug:

[LincolnMcGrath]

69. Hi Sparkly

:pals:

[geomon666]

61. Damn it Mike.

You just had to go and make me cry didn't you. It's cool though. If I can't cry about that then I don't know what for.

[LincolnMcGrath]

72. From a DUer no less!

[crickets]

62. That e-mail was so moving

It was beautiful, but so sad. It made me cry.

edit: Thanks for posting it, BigMcLargehuge.

[BigMcLargehuge]

70. It was my pleasure

thanks for your compliments

[LincolnMcGrath]

73. Hello crickets

That email was a keeper huh!

[crickets]

79. Hi Lincoln!

Absolutely.

[jefferson_dem]

67. Greetings Friends!

Nice to be here. This is my first time checking in on the "official" DU Malloy thread. However, i am a long-time truthseeker from way way back - used to tune into Malloy's late-night rebel-rousing on WSB in ATL during the late 1980s. Some things are just meant to be. Malloy speaking truth to power is among them.

:hi:

[LincolnMcGrath]

74. Welcome jefferson_dem

How are things in the ATL?

[jefferson_dem]

76. A bit wet and cold today, which is actually a sweet treat from the dog

days of Summer. Intown ATL - a little bastion of blue in a sea of red. UGH! Thanks much for the welcome.

[LincolnMcGrath]

77. Lived in Orange Co. FL for a few years myself

It does indeed get hotter than a two $Dollar pistol in the southeast.

[Wind Dancer]

78. Welcome, he does it better than anyone!

I'm so glad he's back, jefferson dem.

:hi:

[Kool Kitty]

80. Greetings, fellow truthseekers!

I missed the first half-hour, but luckily got in soon enough to hear the Veteran's day article that Mike read. Very powerful.

[LincolnMcGrath]

81. HI Kool Kitty!

:pals:

[AgadorSparticus]

84. are you listening to this 13 yr old?? good god, is she ahead of the bell

curve, or what? i never thought about politics or the state of the nation at that age. at that age, my friends and i were engrossed in madonna's virgin tour and how missy blair got sent home for wearing that tshirt to school. that lasted for quite a few months.

IAE, kudos to her parents. they certainly did something right. i know i'd be darn tootin proud if she was my kid.

[LincolnMcGrath]

87. Bless her young heart!

I had a fundy southern baptsit history teacher who cherred when John Lennon was shot.

[AgadorSparticus]

89. how can anyone cheer when someone is murdered?

[LincolnMcGrath]

93. He said the Beatles were responsible for everthing wrong with

America. Drugs, Hippies, Free Love etc.

Little did he know that I started forming my politcal ideals right then and there. Never forgot it. Never will.

[AgadorSparticus]

99. wow, can we say scapegoat? lordy......

:wow::wow::wow:

[Liberal_Dog]

86. Present And Accounted For

nt

[LincolnMcGrath]

88. Nice to see you again Liberal_ Dog

:hi:

[Liberal_Dog]

101. Thanks, Lincoln

Great show tonight. The callers have been excellent.

[TOhioLiberal]

90. Why oh why...

is there a fahrenhype 911 commercial on AAR????

[Nik Jam]

92. i heard it too

I just asked myself the same thing.

I wonder if Malloy or anyone else is aware of this.

[LincolnMcGrath]

95. Welcome Nik Jam

Maybe they slipped one in on the AAR ad folks.

[LincolnMcGrath]

94. PUKE

:puke:

[TOhioLiberal]

97. I complained about it...

...on the Air America website.

[Ilsa]

91. Overstock.com ad on AAR just hyped Fahrenhype 9-11!!!

What the hell is AAR doing? Don't they screen the ads?

BTW, hello fellow truthseekers! :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[LincolnMcGrath]

96. Hello Ilsa!

Start flooding them with emails.

[Liberal_Dog]

103. Yeah, That Ad Caught Me By Surprise Too

eom

[proud patriot]

98. great Caller , former teacher

tells Mike he could be a great teacher.

[King_Crimson]

100. I'm Here...

but you wouldn't know it was me!! :evilgrin:

[LincolnMcGrath]

102. Hello Howl........Sorry King_Crimson

:evilgrin:

[proud patriot]

104. It's going to take some getting used to ,, all these new names

:crazy:

[proud patriot]

105. argh....gonzales

x(

[antonialee839]

106. Hello Everybody

Better late than never

[TOhioLiberal]

108. Hi tonia...

Good to see ya again.

[antonialee839]

110. Hi TL

:hug:

[proud patriot]

109. Hi Tonia

:hug:

[antonialee839]

111. Hi proud patriot

:hug:

[0rganism]

112. The Democratic party is dead, and will soon start to stink

I'm afraid he might be right. Let's hope for a massive restructuring and retooling to fight the battle we should have been fighting 20 years ago.

[Swamp Rat]

113. I'm glad he's hammering Gonzales.

:kick: ASS Mike!

[ralps]

114. Hi Swamp Rat

How are you doing?
:hi:

[Swamp Rat]

115. Hi ralps

I'm fine, and you? I've been listening while doing homework. :hi:

[ralps]

116. I'm doing great after listening to Mike.

Is it alright with you if I send your "who would Jesus bomb" picture to some family members?

[Swamp Rat]

117. This collage is for anyone and everyone.

I'm going to make a bumpersticker of it for myself.