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That's a great idea! I put one of the standard cigarette lighter cell phone chargers as my boat has such a connector on it. That way when I forgot to charge my phone, I can do it on the boat.

With today's world wide availability of news and instant access to research history and facts it is not hard to check things out for one's self. Independent thought and logic is even more important today than ever before due to the flood half truths and outright lies passed off as truth in modern society. News coverage is slanted hard left over the vast majority of the media with little of the other side's view offered as a balance. While I do not accept anything I see on any network including FOX (that does have a right bias), I must say however they are far more balanced than any other major network, yet everything must be taken with a truck load of salt. All have their own views and these views are colored by a set of filters that are constructed over time by their nurture, environment, education, societal, psychological, and spiritual outlook and experiences. Today too many people depend on information supplied by others as factual rather than filtering them for deliberate bias, deletion, addition, in order to alter the factual content or its perceived content. Independent study often shows a completely different set of facts upon extensive examination of any subject. Since we as free moral agents are responsible for the choices we make, it is our responsibility to do the work that will allow us to make informed decisions, no one said it was going to be easy.

Back to the subject of the thread gun histories which in American history pretty much boils down eventually to Gun ownership and rights. The subject has been hotly debated over the last generation or so. It seems to me to come down to those that believe that each citizen has the right to keep and bear arms for the common defense against those that do not. I personally hope the issue of the interpretation of the Second Amendment never becomes a national crisis because there are few issues that could separate the nation to the extent possible over this issue. The Second Amendment is one of the issues that holds the possibility of sparking major civil strife of the magnitude we the people do not need to witness again in this nation. I hope the leaders of this nation understand that potential conflagration that could engulf our nation and choose to avoid it. That also goes for the common citizens of our nation. We the people must try to understand that men and women of principle can disagree and at times there must be understandings to disagree less such disagreement rend our union beyond repair. For if one side seeks to enforce their interpretation upon others by force they must expect if by no other means than the laws of nature an equal and opposite reaction of force to our everlasting regret.

Sorry to hear about the bad days. I'll pray the good days start out numbering the bad ones. Hope you catch a bunch on the days you are out there! Let us hold up "fishfordollars" in our thoughts and prayers all you Broken Fin Fishing Fools." We have all been there and let's remember all that may have a need while we are at it. Some of us pray and some may not. You do not have to be religious to hold someone in your thoughts. We are all human and we all have needs at times and sometimes we just need to be needed.

I remember that song very well. It fits the period and the feelings of the nation at the time. I'm fortunate because I am still alive while there are many that are not. I have mixed emotions pro and con for many reasons that have nothing to do with your video but all to do with my history having served under both honorable and dishonorable commanders. I have seen government corruption at its worst as well as men sworn to protect the rights of soldiers do the exact opposite. So in the end my loyalty is to my fellow soldiers that wear the uniform and not to the politicians or even the upper ranks or generals if they have forgotten the moral code of humanity and honor. Use the song.

Excellent work Matt!!! It is so inspiring that as a moderator for the Israel military forum, I just linked to it on "you tube" so members from around the world are able to see it.

I have one for you Muddy. A blond was speeding down the highway and was pulled over by a blond female police officer. The blond female officer asked the speeding blond for her driver's license. The blond speeder asked the female officer what does a driver's license look like. The blond female officer said, Well it is about a 2 by 3 and has your picture on it. The blond speeder looked and looked through her purse and finally handed the blond female officer a small mirror. The blond female officer took the mirror looked into it and said Oh, I didn't know you were a fellow officer you can go and handed the mirror back to the blond speeder. Now, my pastor of my church told me that one guys. :

Hope you feel better and they have come a long ways since I had to have my ACL job. My wife was a late blooming athlete in volley ball, a catcher in softball and on a championship team in mixed platform tug of war in Colorado in her 30s. Now she has required both knees to be replaced before turning 60 but despite being five years older than me I can't keep up with her most of the time. So matter what happens doctors have come a long way in joint repair and I hope you are back out their soon enjoying life as I know it's a bummer being laid up. Get well soon.

Prayers on the way.

W1-10 not all wounds are visible to the naked eye but can be the deepest wounds of all. I spent most of my time on active duty in the US Army stationed in Okinawa in the first Drug Suppression unit formed there. There was no SOP on what to do and not to do so we were the ones that wrote the book by trial and error. Boy was there a lot of error. The things you see stay with you, I know, we saw a lot also, like the dead junkies overdosed especially after the Viet Cong sent a batch of Red rock that they cut with strychnine onto the island. We put the word out on the street but not until we televised taking bodies out of buildings did the users believe us and death by strychnine is ugly. We had to deal with the drug dealers and defend our lives. It was not as much of a daily grind as a modern police officer goes through and you are to be honored because you chose to serve and protect your fellow man. Your profession is a most honorable one and there are few that have the strength of character and courage to make the sacrifices the profession takes on your life. I offer you my respect and honor you for your sacrifices. Your profession is hard on family life and limits your social life as well. Two of my former brother-in-laws were Houston police officers, one cousin is a Texas Ranger, my ex-wife was a sheriff's deputy in Texas, and my wife now (when we married) was the first woman to command a full wing in the men's prison system in Colorado. So I have some insight into your life. Know that we are here for you, support you, and anytime you want to, feel free to send me or any of us a personal message (PM).

You never know. Some guy will take every precaution he perceivably can and sniper round ricochets off three different surfaces through a gun slit and smacks him right in the temple, boom dead. While another guy walks around like he has not a care in the world, ignores the fact that everyone in the world and his dog is shooting at him and he never gets touched; go figure. Such is life. Some believe when it is your time it is your time but I believe there are definite ways of shortening your possibilities like playing soccer in a mine field. I always try to practice due diligence and after that I let God watch over me. He has done more than I could have ever asked or expected as I am still walking around. I never went in country Vietnam although I had orders to do so a couple of times on missions from my unit on Okinawa; those that did go did not come back and are still MIA (presumed dead). Events outside my control at the last minute changed my orders preventing me from being one of the ones deployed both times. You never know why such things happen to you. Perhaps it was my guardian angel working overtime to keep me alive. All any of us can do is live life the best we know how. I hope you are feeling better. Don't you just love when "they" tell you they want to try something to see if it helps? I got a degree in psychology in college and now I really have empathy for those lab rats we used in experiments. Maybe that is why I keep craving cheese.

Muddy, you can always go to the wave or double wave.

Right on Fishbear!!! Things happen, people make mistakes as we are all human. Why one of the guys I grew up with went through some of the worst combat the Marines saw in Vietnam without a scratch, came home to Arkansas and went squirrel hunting with a bunch of his cousins only to blow off one of his fingers due to careless gun handling. He suffered from a case of some serious down home ribbing after he was recovered. He was none the worst for ware except for a slight crimson color from time to time when one of us would chime in together let's go squirrel hunting. You don't have to say what happened, just as Fishbear said we support each other for we have all walked a mile in those shoes. So just join in, W1-10 as you are more than welcome in the Broken Fin Fishing Fools.

500,000 now evacuated last I heard. Eldest son and daughter-in-law are OK so far but she was just found out to be pregnant last week with twins and the stress is causing some serious complications with the pregnancy in this early stage so we are Very worried for her and babies.

Sorry to hear of your loss. Such is more prevalent today now that it is so widely accepted that character does not really matter and that it is only performance that counts. Our society it seems has an ever increasing number of those that believe in the ideology centered on self gratification and it's all about me rather than the ideology that is not mine so I have no right to it, work to earn it and service to others is rewarding. :'(

Hi, LBH since my disease was first thought to be MS and now possibly some form of Polyneourpothy; I did some readying in field. I am sure fishfordollars will have a lot more facts but from my limited understanding "Dystonia" is a movement disorder which sometimes can be quite painful. It is great that they seem to have a handle on what you have fishfordollars and the positive attitude you have makes dealing with the disease a lot easier. Some of your symptoms seem similar to mine as I have random feelings of pain which can often be quite intense but mine are not real it's just that my brain interprets the signals as real. My nervous system in parts of my body is telling my brain there is pain but in fact there is not an actual physical cause so I have to be careful to verify I have not in fact injured myself. It is amazing what we can learn to adapt to live with isn't it fishfordollars? It sounds like you definitely qualify for the Broken Fin Fishing Fools so welcome and if at any time you need anything or even just to talk feel free to contact any of us. We support each other and have been there so you will not be bothering us. You have a sound strategy and a positive approach that is an inspiration to others. Thanks for sharing it.

LBH, prayers for healing and renewal on the way for all!

Sometimes it is hard to tell where the lines are drawn when there are posts that seem on their face to be on a forbidden subject area that are left on the forum like the terror thread a while back. Posting how a forum member should properly question if a thread has violated a forum rule without causing problems, I am sure would be a help to new and even ol members at times.

Reddrooster, I ran across my old unit designation. It was Btry C, 8th BN, 3Rd ADA and they were scheduled to go to Korea so were they close to you?

I post now and again but rarely since I came back to the forum. It just seems to me that there is a different feeling to the atmosphere in the forum than when I originally joined back around the same time as Muddy and Avid. Back then if someone posted on something and you disagreed with the post you posted your points of disagreement with explanations as to why but without sarcasm. There was no calling the post disgusting, or ridiculing the other poster. I remember so many new members back then commenting on how surprised they were that members here could disagree yet be so respectful to each other and how different this forum was in that way to other forums. It can be that way again. Like LBH said "Lead by example guys, rise above, forgive and accept."

I'm glad to hear the report of a proactive new doctor fish-fighting-illini and I pray for daily improvement. It is always amazing to me how new specialists can come to such totally different conclusions as I have been through that several times myself. The last test they ran on me was a spinal tap (I hate those) that went to the Mayo Clinic because they have some new test that cost me $28,000 that told me my last specialist was all wrong on his diagnosis of my still un-determined nerve disease. Now they know one more it is not but still don't know exactly what is killing the nerves in my body. I am not sharing that as a woe is me but to say medicine is not an exact science but that it is great to know you have a doctor that is trying to actively find things to help and not waiting to just treat attacks. What works wonders for one person may not help another but to find out what works you often have to try many variations before finding the right combination. My doctor still does not really know what exact disease I have but had the intelligence to keep trying different combinations of drugs that are supposed to treat nerve disease and listened to me when I told her how they were affecting me. We tried different combinations and dosages till now finally after five years I am at the most stable, have the least pain, and highest satisfaction of life I have had since my first major attack ten years ago (with no major attacks also). It may take some time, frustration, heartache, tears, and a lot of prays but your daughter and your family will come through this. There are many people holding all of you up in their thoughts and prayers for both support and healing.

Hey, reddrooster, I just remembered something funny that happed during training at Fort Bliss in 1971. We had a Marine Lt. in our class and you know how when the power is turned off on a launcher rack of HAWKs they sit nose down well the instructor told our Marine to verify that all the birds were properly secured on the launcher. So what does this guy do? He walks up to the first launcher arm and pulls down the T-handle on the front of the launcher arm and the missile starts sliding forward. This Marine Lt. freaks out, grabs hold of the front of the missile and is trying to hold the missile on to the launcher while screaming for help. The instructor gets on his radio and calls for the little missile carrier that loads the missiles onto the launchers while the rest of us are rolling around on the ground laughing. For the rest of you a HAWK weighs 1400 pounds and had slid a few inches and stopped on its own as there was no way you could hold one on if it had really wanted to come off on its own weight. The Marine was grunting, straining but actually holding nothing but he did learn the front T-latch is all that holds the missile on to the front of the launcher so it is a bad thing to release it with the missile pointing down. Fortunately the warheads had not been armed yet because rather than laughing the rest of us would have been running when that thing started to slide.

HAWK (Homing All the Way Killer) was my first MOS in the Army as a new 2Lt. on Okinawa, before my Drug Suppression stint. I also was qualified on Nike Hercules both HE and Nukes. If I had stayed in the green machine my next duty station was to be Korea during 1973 but then the Army lost my Voluntary Indefinite Papers. Suddenly I went from a long timer to a short timer when I didn't resign new six year papers. The specialist asked me what that meant and I told him that meant that if the Army found the originals after my original release date then they could find me. I had signed up for Voluntary Indefinite when I was working for an extremely honest and honorably Brigadier General I would have gone to hell and back for when I first entered the Army but I now was under a Full Bird Colonel that was known for pulling strings to send (volunteer) his own men on suicide missions if he did not like them to Vietnam, a drunk, incompetent and an ego maniac. He had a friend of mine killed and he almost killed me. Enough Said.

Steven Segal has tried and done what most have only thought about. Each of us has a path and choices along that path for the good of others or the good of self. We are all responsible for the choices we make along this path of our life as we do affect others both for the positive and negative along the way. I respect Steven Segal for the courage he has shown in making choices that were his to make. Too many spend too much time criticizing others choices on their paths and not enough on making wise choices along their own journey which is witnessed by the carnage left in their wake. If all mankind followed the simple principle of putting others first would this world not be a better place? Alas evil and selfishness rule far too many in this life and there are those that while they try to practice putting others first stand in the breech between those that would rule the weak by force not out of anger, greed, or hate toward their foe by out of love for the weak and the selfish for the weak need protection and it is bad for the selfish to get their way. These do not want conflict but conflict resolution. If the selfish choose to strike with force they have already lost the battle for they have damaged themselves. I have never met Segal but I have studied martial arts, spiritual and religious beliefs as well as personally witnessed things beyond what my university science training and degree can explain. Each of us has to find our own answers in life and must answer for the choices we make along life's path. Considering the implications of we are born, we live life, we die, and then what (many disagree here) I believe we should choose wisely but in the end the choice is yours to make.

If you can find a good used Remington 700 rifle in .308, .270, or .30-06 and you should be set for most shooting and hunting situations as they are the most used and chosen all-round hunting cartridges that you will be able to find that will not cost you a fortune to buy. The .30-06 is usually the limit most people can handle in the recoil department without getting into trouble with recoil. The .308 and .270 kick less and work great on deer. If you have doubts about recoil go to a gun range as hunting season is approaching and ask if those with the rifles in the calibers you are interested in will allow you to fire a couple of rounds. You want enough gun but you do not want to over gun your ability to handle the recoil as shooting it accurately is far more important than caliber size. If you are mostly going to be shooting at the range and then a little deer hunting as mentioned a .243 will work also. Depending on your budget you can get something like a T/C Pro Hunter single shot with interchangeable barrels. With that you can get a .22 LR barrel for cheap practice and then any caliber barrel you want to hunt with to start and perhaps move up to larger cartridges later by simply just purchasing a new barrel and not a whole new rifle. You have to try things and find out what fits you, what you like, and what works for you and your budget. I hope that helped some and not just confused you. Just take your time.