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It's appreciation like this that make the troops know that what they are fighting for is worth it.JaWarrenJaHooker said:It's stories like this that should remind us all to thank @koopdog for his service more often
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Grandpa was always pissed about the Indianapolis. He was sailing back from the Phillipines and was within a day's sail from the Indianapolis when it was sunk. The Navy lost track of the ship and didn't notify anyone. They could've saved many of those men. The Indianapolis angered him at 90.
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GrundleStiltzkin said:
And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’…
Your next president and the commander in chief of the most powerful nation ever to exist, ladies and gentleman.
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I didn't see TRUMP in that gif
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No shit retardPurpleJ said:I didn't see TRUMP in that gif
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AEB said:
Grandpa was always pissed about the Indianapolis. He was sailing back from the Phillipines and was within a day's sail from the Indianapolis when it was sunk. The Navy lost track of the ship and didn't notify anyone. They could've saved many of those men. The Indianapolis angered him at 90.
AEB said:Grandpa was always pissed about the Indianapolis. He was sailing back from the Phillipines and was within a day's sail from the Indianapolis when it was sunk. The Navy lost track of the ship and didn't notify anyone. They could've saved many of those men. The Indianapolis angered him at 90.
Death eventually finds us all, AEB. Quint knew he'd have to face the shark someday. He wanted it that way. -
I believe I might have even been the one that first mentioned it.GrundleStiltzkin said:Where's that movie monologue thread we? had a while back? That's number one natch. Rutger Hauer's in Blade Runner up there too.
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Are you knew here? Race Bannon steals with impunityBaseman said:
Credit Baseman, Fucko.RaceBannon said:Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away.
Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces.
You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.
At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”
And does it again!
