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2010-08-23 Home Front: Politix

Richard Blabenthal's words are haunting him again.

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-08-23 10:35|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Had he been an enlisted man and welder in the Indiana National Guard he would REALLY be feeling the heat!

Posted by Besoeker 2010-08-23 18:49|| 2010-08-23 18:49|| Front Page Top

#2 going up-river to deliver purple dinosaurs to the tykes ...

The casualty rate in the Potomac Riverine Squadron was unbelievable.

Posted by Pappy 2010-08-23 21:34|| 2010-08-23 21:34|| Front Page Top

#3 "the mosquitoes were unbelievable. As big as....big mosquitos. Left quite a welt"

Posted by Frank G 2010-08-23 21:45|| 2010-08-23 21:45|| Front Page Top

#4 It was a dark and stormy December night at the Washington Navy Yard. The wind was strong, nearly masking the burble of the PBR's engines, Mick Jagger playing on a sailor's radio, and the low-voices curses of the crew as they struggled to bring the tiger-striped-camouflaged bags marked 'Mattel' aboard the heaving boat.

Chief Jones, a burly African-American, looked at the bags and spit around his cigar into the dark water. He surveyed me sourly, clearly not enthused at having a prime example of a Marine Corps reservist on his boat...

- excerpt from Richard Blumenthal's memoir, "Heart of Politics"

Posted by Pappy 2010-08-23 22:26|| 2010-08-23 22:26|| Front Page Top

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