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Ateo
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| Quote: | Originally posted by captkw
most folks don't know that we had hand to hand combat on "Dutch harbor and Attu" |
Did someone mention Dutch Harbor? Here I am in Dutch:
OK. Sorry for the hijack!!!
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captkw
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Ateo
Hola,,What the Hell where you doing out There ?? Talk about being in the boonies..Holy crap !! its not a highjack at all,,,its all about the great
north west !!!
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Ateo
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I went to work in a crab processing plant. The crabbers went on strike so I went to Longshoreman's Union and worked as a Stevedore. Hardest work of
my life. Also walked the docs looking for a job on a crabber.
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Signs and license plates in Mexico? Shirley you jest. Loose aluminum? Free building materials?
A Lot To See And A Lot To Do
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Ahoy Capitan...Check the map above. Attu is ~ 7 degrees west of Semisopochnoi. It doesn't even show on the map of easternmost parts of the USA. It is
a good bar question IF you know the correct answer. Semisopochnoi.
As to your fictitious revisionist history of the battle of Attu, you are 180 degrees off course. The USA was not defending Attu, they were mounting
one of the first amphibious assaults of the Pacific war, against a couple of Japanese units which had occupied the undefended islands a short time
before. Historians disagree about the strategic goals of the Japanese, but tend to agree it was a blow to US morale to have their troops on US owned
soil. There is no disagreement about whose military was attacking the island.
Any hand to hand combat that occurred on Attu was likely during the classic banzai charge the enemy mounted in their failed DEFENSE of the island.
Bots'n! Call the cook to the wheelhouse, the Skipper is way off course!
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
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Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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captkw
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I don't see "Attu" on your map ??? But,, be ashared I know your correct as I'm always off 180...the fighting on "dutch harbor" was fought in thick fog
and we kept them back. we made temp. landing strips and cabins. very little is known about the fighting on "attu" I wasn't even born till 1962 but I
read a lot of books...So, in your own word tell us the ww2 history about this little know fact about the Japanese being on US soil and how with
canek,s help we punched a road up to ALASKA..btw thanks to all candians with that effort and help !!! and sewards "folly" lol
[Edited on 1-25-2014 by captkw]
[Edited on 1-25-2014 by captkw]
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sigh......okay then, maybe a shoe tree instead?
(This shoe tree is on a highway called "The Loneliest Highway in the World." Anyone been there?)
[Edited on 1-26-2014 by Pompano]
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Yes Pompano, I live in Nevada and unfortunately some idiot cut it down in 2011.
Highway 50 'Shoe Tree' Cut Down
Posted: Jan 03, 2011 12:00 PM PST
Channel 2 News
Churchill County deputies are figuring out who cut down the so-called ‘Shoe Tree' along Highway 50 east of Fallon.
The decades old Cottonwood tree is located about 50 miles east of Fallon just beyond the old Pony Express stop at Middlegate Station. "On New Year's
Eve, some patrons came in here and they said, 'hey, did you notice the shoe tree got chopped down' or actually cut down with a chainsaw with what one
guy said. And everybody is in just disbelief. We went and looked out (the window). It's not there anymore," says Greg Del Pepozzo.
Churchill County Sheriff Ben Trotter says they are looking into the incident. They say a report was filed, but deputies are determining if a crime was
committed. Since it's not on private property, it's likely not a crime, but they are looking into whether it was vandalism. No suspects have been
identified.
The Nevada Tourism on Commission says the tradition started following an argument between newlyweds, during which one tossed the other's shoes in the
tree. When they reconciled, the other reciprocated, and people threw shoes into the tree ever since.
There will be a memorial on February 13th at 2:30pm at the site where the tree once stood.
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Pompano
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silverstriketim, that news saddens me. We 'discovered' that unique tree on our way across Hwy 50 and donated our two pairs of worn sneakers.
Unfortunately, we have lots of mindless and uncaring vandals in our land.
Too bad...
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