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2007-04-15 Europe

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Posted by OldSpook 2007-04-15 03:34|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Fabrizio Quattrocchi is a hero and model for each one of us.
Let's hope his life and death will inspire a new younger generation of Italians and free peoples everywhere. RIP

thanks OldSpook for reminding us.

Posted by RD">RD 2007-04-15 06:21|| 2007-04-15 06:21|| Front Page Top

#2 We're all going to die. The question is, "in what way will we choose to live?" Quattrocchi lived and died like a man. He may have had a lot of things to answer to St. Pete for, but the way his life ended wasn't one of them.

Posted by Mac 2007-04-15 07:07|| 2007-04-15 07:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Truly a Man!

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-15 07:40|| 2007-04-15 07:40|| Front Page Top

#4 If my memory is any good the idea of the expedition to Cuba and similar ones in Central America was to have them enter the Union as pro-alavery states able to elect two pro-alavery states and get N pro-slavery electors for the vote on president.

Had the plan worked (and resistance of Northerrn states to such acquisitions been overcome) Lincoln would have never been elected and abolition would have been delayed for at least 50 years.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-04-15 11:18|| 2007-04-15 11:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Fixing a mitake in previous post:

If my memory is any good the idea of the expedition to Cuba and similar ones in Central America was to have them enter the Union as pro-slavery senators and get N pro-slavery electors for the vote on president.

Had the plan worked (and resistance of Northerrn states to such acquisitions been overcome) Lincoln would have never been elected and abolition would have been delayed for at least 50 years.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-04-15 11:42|| 2007-04-15 11:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Glad we got that mitake cleared up.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-04-15 11:43|| 2007-04-15 11:43|| Front Page Top

#7 No, That was an errorrer.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-04-15 11:45|| 2007-04-15 11:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Isn't a mitake one of those small korean cars?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-04-15 11:47|| 2007-04-15 11:47|| Front Page Top

#9 If you're going to die, die standing up!

I salute Mr Quatrocchi!

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-04-15 12:00|| 2007-04-15 12:00|| Front Page Top

#10 In similar circumstances, knowing I was to die, I would weave a tale to my captors that would haunt them to their dying day--if they still had the nerve to kill me.

The reason being that many such brutes are highly superstitious, and readily believe tales the weirder the better. Djinns, curses, zombies, vampires, anything is fair game to leave the SOBs trembling in their boots.

This is in no way wrong. In fact, some military personnel are trained to do just this if they are captured, as resistance in any form keeps up your morale and dampens the enemy morale.

It should begin as soon as possible after you are captured, and hopefully you won't end up in a position of last minute defiance while facing death.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-04-15 13:43|| 2007-04-15 13:43|| Front Page Top

#11 Death is only the end of this part.

Posted by wxjames 2007-04-15 14:28|| 2007-04-15 14:28|| Front Page Top

#12 The enemy we face today would have to rise far to earn even our contempt.

This is something Bush needs to remember each time he opens his yap about the Religion of Peace [spit].

If you're going to die, die standing up!

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Another thank you to Old Spook for remembering a man who would not let the terrorists win on their terms.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-15 21:16|| 2007-04-15 21:16|| Front Page Top

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