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My sensitive side asks. Any butterflies hurt in the making of this production?
May 11th, 2007 at 1:44 pmlooks like pat with the mohawk driving the cab
May 11th, 2007 at 2:10 pmDon’t worry Greg. Those were stunt butterflies. They are very hard to train and thus are very precious and highly prized in the entertainment industry.
May 11th, 2007 at 2:25 pmOnly children were hurt.
May 11th, 2007 at 2:37 pm“Back on combat patrol” Pat are you heading back to Iraq?
May 11th, 2007 at 4:23 pmKeep your ass down, bro. I hear rumours it’s dangerous over there. Make sure to pack your cold weather gear, and some extra grid squares.
May 11th, 2007 at 4:24 pmWill you put this site on hold during your trip?
May 11th, 2007 at 4:43 pmiraq??? dude it’s like there is a war going on there
May 11th, 2007 at 5:02 pmTotally, man. Is this the 2nd time you’ve ended up there? Does that mean you’re twice as stupid as someone who’s only gone once?
May 11th, 2007 at 5:23 pmMy son is over there in the 3/6. Do you know who you are riding with yet?
May 11th, 2007 at 5:25 pmSite will be maintained while I’m gone. Won’t be as prolific. Osama B has faster internet in his cave than we do on most smaller, furthest forward camps.
May 11th, 2007 at 5:25 pmWhat kinda infidel are you infidel, allot of smart people are on their 3rd tour.
May 11th, 2007 at 5:32 pmYes! The Site stays active… Thank you Pat. have no fucking clue what its like to be there, so no comment. Just Thank You
Separate note…. Take a look at this
Radical Muslim paramilitary compound flourishes in upper New York state. A Fucking Legal Entity involved in terrorism but HomeLandSecurity FBI CIA is reportedly doing Nothing!!!
May 11th, 2007 at 7:03 pmhttp://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/paul-williams051107.htm
If you look further, NY is not the only place!!!!
Pat,
May 11th, 2007 at 7:40 pmIf you are at Camp Ramadi and have the time……..how about looking up my husband and giving him a big hug and kiss from me?
Just be sure to tell him what’s up first so you don’t get slugged.
Anyway, stay safe. And thank you for this site. Feeling like I have an idea about what the reality is over there helps me deal with this deployment. I respect your courage and your integrity. Please continue being the voice of truth. God bless.
John in PA, oh, is that where Farrakhan’s jailhouse moe slums vacation? Well, they could send down some of the 11th Mountain from Fort Drum so they can practice search and destroy. Kill them over here, kill them over there, kill them everywhere. Oliver North has been talking about jailhouse moe slums for quite a while, he puts the number at ten thousand. He was on last week and I know he meant to say, when listing the cells that have been busted recently, Lackawanna but said North Tonawanda. Now North Tonawanda is a little north of Buffalo like Lackawanna is a little south of Buffalo. I wonder if it was a slip of the tongue, does he know something we don’t know? Wanna’ hear my worse case scenario? If you look at a map of where we have large concentrations of moe slums it’s like they’ve surrounded the Great Lakes. Include Toronto in that ring. Then we have the flying imams. Just an attempt to break us down, get us to where we dare not question what they do. Lower your eyes as we pass by, infidel. Sue the passengers that called airport security. Intimidate us in an attempt to shut us up. They’re setting us up. They’re going to attack us again from within and it will be done by crashing a jet with a dirty nuclear bomb into the middle of each of the Great Lakes. Wonder how long it would take for the lakes to rinse themselves out. They had me working in the S2 from ‘84 to ‘94 with that Guard unit in Buffalo.
May 11th, 2007 at 8:06 pmPat,
Watch your six! Besides your family and us, the unruly harping hordes, you got the distribution and collaboration stuff to finish. Coz we’ll be seriously pissed if that don’t get done, k?
Please tell My Troops they’re on my mind every single day and in my prayers every single night.
You’re included.
May 11th, 2007 at 8:36 pmPat, ditto what Alexa Kim said. I will pray for you every single day while you are gone.
Hope we hear from you when you get a chance. Having never been in anything like that, I don’t know, but I’ll hope anyway.
May 11th, 2007 at 9:22 pmOkay Pat. I’ve been waiting for this since 3 weeks now. You had already made it clear you wanted to go back.
So, the moment you’ll arrive on Iraq soil, just for a split second, you’ll feel like you coming home. And then, KABOEM!!! There’s the realisation what you came back for;
Working at the most important thing in your life. GET THE TRUTH OUT IN THE OPEN!!!!
As for people like Rummy, I feel the deepest respect. And very humble. Signing up, going trough bootcamp, knowing you will get deployed “over there” with a big risk getting blown up or even worse. This including al the negative reactions from the damaging leftist storm that is hurting not only the US but Europe as well.
And you, Pat, you could stay in the States, doing the good job you are already doing right now. But no, there is the urge, that itch, that makes you go back.
Man, you are one crazy bastard and, I love you for that!!!! Corp. Rock, Rummy and you, you are my heroes. No big words but ACTION.
The fact that English is not my native language feels like a big handicap to me at this moment. Because I can’t find the right words to describe how I feel, but:
May 12th, 2007 at 4:42 amYou’ve gained my deepest respect.
Pat,
Have a save journey then trip back home… if you want we will set up a pat dollard chat room at Eagles Nest II - where you can type at folks in real time in the states or with brothers & sister in your AO.
till then..
“OH GOD OF POWER AND LOVE, MAKE ME A SOLDIER
WORTHY OF THE GREAT CAUSE IN WHICH I FIGHT.
GIVE ME STRENGTH WHEN THE GOING IS HARD. GIVE ME COURAGE WHEN DANGER IS NEAR.
LEAD ME THROUGH THE PERILS OF THIS WAR TO THE PEACE OF THAT
BETTER WORLD TO WHICH WE HAVE DEDICATED OUR LIVES.
BUT IF THIS SERVICE TO YOU AND TO MY COUNTRY CALLS FOR THE SACRIFICE OF MY LIFE,
I ASK ONLY THAT YOU BE WITH ME IN THAT HOUR,
CONFIDENT THAT YOUR PEACE AWAITS ME IN ETERNITY”.
– Howard Coffin
God Bless and thank you for making the trip to preserve what we have left of our freedoms and sovereign nation.
May 12th, 2007 at 4:55 amPat,
Any chance you can take Paris Hilton with you?
She’ll be begging for jail time after one hour over there …
May 12th, 2007 at 6:03 am“Ilario Pantano Asks for Help”
http://euphoricreality.com/2007/05/10/ilario-pantano-asks-for-help/
May 12th, 2007 at 6:21 amPat,
You are now a combat adrenaline junkey. Everything after that seems changed. It’s the reason I don’t hunt anymore…no sport unless your prey can shoot back.
Keep the stories coming here when you go bro.
May 12th, 2007 at 6:55 amJoe Oliver, that prayer is beautiful!
May 12th, 2007 at 7:49 am“no sport unless your prey can shoot back”
im finding it hard to believe that you ever hunted.
May 12th, 2007 at 8:29 amGood luck and God speed Pat………..My son just called (my 2 week call) and for the first time sounded a little down after 11 months of combat patrols.. These guys get the news like us and see our bullshit congress ,how Iraqi gov.wants to take 2 months off etc.etc,……He said ” Dad ,I am out there every fucking day as a platoon leader,..interegating people,..looking at dead bodies,etc….and these fucking people want to take 2 months off, and keep blowing up shit we have spent billions of dollars building.” He said he knows that we need to be there because he can see it is the training area for terrorists and we need to win,but that it will take a long term commitment of 10 yeras or more and can’t see the American people supporting it that long. . He is a leader and a professional soldier and says he will continue to do his job and his mission but could give a “rat’s ass” for most of the stinking bastards who don’t support the troops………. Well, be safe Pat and keep telling the story …..hopefully it will have a good ending someday………I suppose I am just a proud dad ,and I just pray that the rest of the world could/would see the need to stop the radical terrorist bullshit….
May 12th, 2007 at 11:22 amRoadking -
Heard about the same from my son in a call a few months back, when the d’rats shit started flowing after the first of the year.
Unfortunately they cannot complete thier mission in a vacuum, and in this age of global instant communication they are exposed to opinions and information that are designed to cause them to question thier actions, to question thier mission and to question the decisions that put them in a position that risks thier own life and limb. We know how the MSM and the d’rats are eager to see an American defeat (THEY WILL GO TO HELL FOR THIS) and that in fact he has to face not only an enemy on the ground in battle but he also has to face the enemy as it uses the media and legislation as it tries to shape the opinion of the conflict to its favor. The strength that is in him that allowed him to become a warrior has to be called upon again to not accept the defeatist actions of those that have chosen to oppose his mission, those that in fact are willing to sacrifice him and his fellow troops for thier own political power gain. He is going to have to have the strength to face two enemies. Fucking sucks doesn’t it.
Armed uprising against our enemies domestically does not seem out of the question when we really see what is happening.
Your son is a warrior for a just cause.
Steve in NC
May 12th, 2007 at 12:24 pmDear roadking,
I sense that you feel a little down as well after talking on the phone to your son.
I can only imagine how it must feel, knowing what he is fighting for but being confronted with the “stinking bastards who don’t support the troops” in your country.
So, here is a link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Yc3wYJOtI&mode=related&search=
I hope it will give you some strength.
With a hug from The Netherlands.
May 12th, 2007 at 12:31 pmSteve in N.C.
May 12th, 2007 at 12:44 pmThanks for the re-assuring words…….it helps !
John Cunningham…
No need to attack from within - they’ve already found our achilles heel…
http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2007/05/123beta_very_bu.html
May 12th, 2007 at 2:16 pmJeanet, thank you also for your words,thoughts and the link…Yes ,I was feeling a little down. It makes me feel good to know that blogs like Pat’s are being read worldwide, The Netherlands, because that’s what it is going to take,a worldwide effort through honest reporting, to rid the world this scourge………
May 12th, 2007 at 2:20 pmIf you will be anywhere near Hurricaine Point say “Hi” to my son with the 3/7.
May 12th, 2007 at 2:53 pmsuek, the operative word there was ‘reasonable’. What part of islam is not reasonable don’t they understand?
May 13th, 2007 at 3:37 amRoad King,
While watching the History Channel’s series on “The Presidents”, it said Lincolns support was worse than dismal a couple months before Sherman’s march to the sea and the tide turned in the civil War. If he’d had MSM back then and listened to it, Sherman may not have made that campaign, but, he stuck to his plan and saw it through despite the protests. I’m praying that the troops aren’t fallling into that “who wants to be the last killed in this war” frame of mind a lot of our troops had at the end of the Vietnam War. As long as there is Veto power for the Commander in Chief, their missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and the rest of the world will be noble. The wimps on this will never reach the 2/3’s vote needed for defeat, and so far the Dem’s popularity is almost as bad or worse as Bush’s at about 35%. Our troops missions are safe for a year or so and the 2008 election looks good so far to extend that mission, the Dem’s can’t find a winable candidate so far.
Chad,
Sorry you doubt I ever hunted, not much I can do about that. I was raised on Venicen, Elk meat etc., and hunted before and after Nam. I noticed something missing and it was more work than sport, after talking to some other Vets that noticed the change, they pegged the missing ingredient and it made sense to me. The one style of hunt that got a bit of that adreneline rush back was hunting White Tail deer in the brush tunnels around the Big Horn River with pistols, no room to use a rifle. The deer would not bolt until we were almost on top of them and antlers is all one saw coming, a split second to shot or a stint in the ER. The gamble went from getting skunked on a hunt to possible harm, loved it. Chad, just translate it to I’m just lazy.
May 14th, 2007 at 6:30 amPat,
all I can say is you will be missed while gone, we are all glad the site will be maintained, but I will be the troops that are in the sand box now are likely glad as heel that you are going back, knowing how much support you have helped them realize they have here stateside. Watch you six, I’m willing to guaranty the troops will help with that as well…
Semper Fidelis
May 14th, 2007 at 7:48 am