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Offline GScholz

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Re: Thank God
« Reply #45 on: June 03, 2014, 06:59:45 AM »
It wasn't always like this... Public library in Kabul, Afghanistan, ca. 1950.

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Offline danny76

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Re: Thank God
« Reply #46 on: June 03, 2014, 08:09:54 AM »
My God!! You can see their faces.... and their ANKLES :O
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Re: Thank God
« Reply #47 on: June 03, 2014, 08:26:52 AM »
Before religious extremism they used to have it all...


















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Offline Slate

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Re: Thank God
« Reply #48 on: June 03, 2014, 08:56:31 AM »

    Those pictures make me sad.  :cry 



     I will trade you one lousy soldier that could not do his duty for 5 top notch fighters. Sounds like a good trade for....... :bolt:
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Re: Thank God
« Reply #49 on: June 03, 2014, 09:02:45 AM »
the 5 top notch soldiers got captured just like the lousy soldier.  and they probably spent more years too.


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Re: Thank God
« Reply #50 on: June 03, 2014, 09:03:08 AM »
Looks remarkable like pictures of Rhodesia before and after 1980 :bhead
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Re: Thank God
« Reply #51 on: June 03, 2014, 09:43:16 AM »
I was hearing 13 soldiers died trying to find him... for a desertion.  Wow.  If he has a soul there won't be a punishment better than the one he's already going through.
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Re: Thank God
« Reply #52 on: June 03, 2014, 10:08:38 AM »
Quote from: Triton28 on June 03, 2014, 09:43:16 AM
I was hearing 13 soldiers died trying to find him... for a desertion.  Wow.  If he has a soul there won't be a punishment better than the one he's already going through.

If he had one he would not have abandoned his position, knowing the creed of soldiers to protect their own, he must have been aware that someone would come looking for him and all that entails.

Either the guy was deficient in some way, in which case he has my sympathy, or he was aware of the consequences and did it anyway, in which case he can go to hell
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Offline Cthulhu

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Re: Thank God
« Reply #53 on: June 03, 2014, 11:04:53 AM »
You guys might want to get up to speed on what it cost his fellow soldiers while the military was looking for him. This guy is no hero. Ask the men who lost friends looking for him after he deserted. You won't see the family members of the men who were killed searching for him receiving any condolences at the White House either.

Btw, he was a PFC when he walked away from his post. The Army made him a Sgt. while he was missing. Go figure.
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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Re: Thank God
« Reply #54 on: June 03, 2014, 11:42:14 AM »
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My God they've invented the time machine! Only place in the planet where progression goes backwards.
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Re: Thank God
« Reply #55 on: June 03, 2014, 11:55:27 AM »
Quote from: Cthulhu on June 03, 2014, 11:04:53 AM
Btw, he was a PFC when he walked away from his post. The Army made him a Sgt. while he was missing. Go figure.

Promotion doesn't end in the US military if one is a PoW.
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Re: Thank God
« Reply #56 on: June 03, 2014, 12:04:20 PM »
Quote from: MiloMorai on June 03, 2014, 11:55:27 AM
Promotion doesn't end in the US military if one is a PoW.

How about deserter?
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Offline GScholz

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Re: Thank God
« Reply #57 on: June 03, 2014, 12:06:59 PM »
Quote from: Cthulhu on June 03, 2014, 12:04:20 PM
How about deserter?

That has to be proved first in a military court.
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Offline GScholz

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Re: Thank God
« Reply #58 on: June 03, 2014, 12:10:26 PM »
Quote from: MrRiplEy[H] on June 03, 2014, 11:42:14 AM
My God they've invented the time machine! Only place in the planet where progression goes backwards.

Unfortunately it is common in the post-colonial world.

Mogadishu in Somalia used to look like this back in the '30s before the Italians left. They had electricity and everything.




Now it's like something out of a post-apocalyptic horror film.
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Offline TheCrazyOrange

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Re: Thank God
« Reply #59 on: June 03, 2014, 12:13:39 PM »
Quote from: GScholz on June 03, 2014, 12:06:59 PM
That has to be proved first in a military court.

What's the typical punishment for desertion?


Also, what the hell? What's wrong with that part of the world?
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