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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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Went to a reunion with some old retired Navy guys. Didn’t know so many team guys were going to be there. Felt really honored to be invited. Was given the challenge coin, and one of the guys is doing metal work and made about 15 of the bottle openers just for the reunion. I was really honored to be given one. Coronado is much the same, but it is also different, but it’s been 30 years too. A great weekend with great friends.
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When James Elliott Williams enlisted in the Navy in 1947, World War II was over, and the South Carolina native probably thought he might have a career no different, better, or worse than any other enlisted sailor. History would have other ideas. He just wanted to join the Navy, so bad in fact, he was only 16 when he enlisted. He and a county clerk altered his birth certificate to make him old enough to join. That was just the first bold move of his career.

It's notable that the most decorated enlisted sailor in Navy history isn't a SEAL or anything like that, he was a Boatswains Mate.

Williams was the Petty Officer in charge of overseeing patrols in the Mekong Delta as the Vietnam War was heating up in 1966 and 1967. At the time in his career when other NCOs would be seeking a quiet place to end their enlistment, Williams was tossing ammunition over his shoulder and telling junior sailors everything was going to be okay – and it was, because Williams was going to see to that.

That's what happened on Oct. 31, 1966, when Williams' two boat patrol was ambushed by two enemy boats on the river. He collected his "19-year-old and scared to death" gunners, and directed a return fire that destroyed one boat and sent the other running away for dear life. It wouldn't get away, as the sailors chased the damaged enemy boat right into...

An enemy stronghold.

Suddenly, they were outnumbered 65-to-1. The VC opened up on the Americans with withering AK-47 and RPG fire. You can probably guess what happened next.

Williams led his boat and its crew into the enemy formation, with fortified bunkers shooting at them from the riverbanks, enemy boats swirling around them, and all kinds of different ordnance being thrown their way. As he attacked enemy sampans, junks, and other river craft, he called in for help from UH-1B Huey helicopters as the night fell on the South Vietnamese inlet where Williams and his crew were absolutely laying waste to the Viet Cong.

For three hours, Williams and company fought and wrecked an entire hub of VC shipping and supply along with the 65 boats and untold manpower defending it. The Navy wrecking crew killed 1,000 enemy troops in the process while disrupting the VC supply lines in the entire region.

Aside from the Medal of Honor he earned on that day, Williams other awards and decorations include the Navy Cross, the Silver Star with gold star, the Legion of Merit with combat V, the Navy and Marine Corps Medal with gold star, the Bronze Star with combat V and two gold stars, the Purple Heart with two gold stars, and a ton of other unit commendations and service medals.

He left the military as a Boatswain's Mate First Class, E-6, but was made an honorary Chief in 1977.
 
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Another Antifa arrest. Another professor
FUCK! 😶🧐 .......ADD: I think I’m getting crankier in my old age, SHIT pisses me off and I just say what I say now, it NEVER was and I never was this way really before. Brought up that way, my first “cuss” word was “SHIT!!”... about Jr. or High School age, back yard, religiously barefoot stepped on a thumbtack in the grass outside our open back door, Mom (shocked) heard it, said “I’ve NEVER heard you talk that way!”, I said “It hurt, Mom, couldn’t help it!”. Now this stuff flows easier than it ever did, specially nowadays. 🤙🤔.... FUCK! is the short version for here 🤔.
 
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In England at that time Liberals were called Socialists. Orwell‘s beliefs bear little resemblance to what the Bolshevik Democrats are calling socialism. If you can’t see them acting out almost everything Orwell warned about then you haven’t read a word.

You might want to look that up again.

He fought for the communist side in the spanish civil war. I could go on, but the thread has moved on.
 
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Pol Espargaro on his way to His and KTM's first ever Pole Position in the Premier Class of MotoGP. KTM had their first win last week by Brad Binder in his 3rd GP race now their 1st Pole..... this is only the 4th year they've been racing in the Premier Class. Amazing accomplishment for any manufacturer considering the level of competition.

Performance wise these GP bikes are 300-350hp and weight about 350lbs w/o the rider who's typically 150-175lbs. Top speed on the fastest track is near 220mph.

Fits with KTM, you need a rebuild after every ride with them anyway :)
 
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Again, you haven’t read his books, and you’re not paying attention if you don’t see them playing out. A lot of people (including a lot of Americans, fought with the PF against the fascists in the 1930s, including communists and anarchists, but that doesn’t make you one. In the 1930s it was fascists who were totalitarian. They were defeated. The communists are just if not more totalitarian than the fascists. Take your bullshit leftism somewhere else.
 
When you're riding on the extreme edges of acceleration, cornering, and braking tractions at extreme adrenaline levels it happens.

Zarco's irrational move in the last race could have killed a few riders. Those type of incidents are the dangerous ones, not racing incidents like Espargaro and Oliveira's.

And one of the things you need as a rider at those levels is control of not only the bike but yourself, there can be no red mist. Do that one time too often and there are 10 guys waiting in line, and 5 of them are likely better then you are if given the chance.
 
Again, you haven’t read his books, and you’re not paying attention if you don’t see them playing out. A lot of people (including a lot of Americans, fought with the PF against the fascists in the 1930s, including communists and anarchists, but that doesn’t make you one. In the 1930s it was fascists who were totalitarian. They were defeated. The communists are just if not more totalitarian than the fascists. Take your bullshit leftism somewhere else.

Sorry read the books. He was a commie.....a follower of lenin, and after learning of the horrid things Stalin did to his people he switched sides. A champion of the down trodden, favored distribution of wealth, and in fact lived "homeless" for a while just to see what it was like.

None of this diminishes his work, or the comments on 1984.....just know the man.
 
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