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re: IM wondering how many degrees everyone is from Kevin Bacon...
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:12 pm to MSCoastTigerGirl
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:12 pm to MSCoastTigerGirl
I'm playing with two of our seniors who are down for the year. I'm excited. I've already warned them I'm terrible.
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Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:12 pm to heartbreakTiger
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i like the battlefields and reading about the civil war but i just feel history doesn't paint it very fairly.
You're right - history is always written by the winners which means it's anything but unbiased. Most of the accounts are whitewashed to ignore the atrocities committed by the winners, and paint the losers as evil. You have to dig to find an accurate version of events.
If you ever want to read something interesting, read up on the Civil War and border conflict in Missouri/Kansas. It started well before the official start of the war, and was incredibly violent.
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:12 pm to Rox
Wanna drink
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:13 pm to semotruman
yep i enjoy stuff about the border war. also love the outlaw josey wales
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:14 pm to heartbreakTiger
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yep i enjoy stuff about the border war. also love the outlaw josey wales
did you see my link on the last page... Battles BC, you'd probably like it.
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:15 pm to gnarkill1529
no doubt, hathcocks stories are pretty amazing as well and i think military channel had him as the best sniper ever.
kinda funny hathcock was number 1 ahead of this guy: the white death
kinda funny hathcock was number 1 ahead of this guy: the white death
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:16 pm to NATidefan
saw it gonna check it out 
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:17 pm to heartbreakTiger
Fun Fact : my Grandfather was in the same platoon as hathcock and said he was the best ever. said he was outside the wire nearly all the time
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:18 pm to gnarkill1529
he is very impressive with the shots that he made and the missions he took but the white death put down 505 soviets in less than 100 days.
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:20 pm to heartbreakTiger
Yeah thats by far just by sheer number the most impressive...but i still say the marine in the fallejuah mission made the most impressive shots
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:20 pm to heartbreakTiger
What yall talking about now? I had to work for a bit.
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:22 pm to chilld28
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What yall talking about now? I had to work for a bit.
Snipers, serial killers, the history channel, etc.
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:23 pm to gnarkill1529
while the soviets were probably an easier target than insurgents or the vietcong hiding in the jungle 505 is insane. also he was doing this in -40 to -20 temps with iron sights
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:23 pm to NATidefan
I had a cousin on death row in Texas for killing a state trooper over there in the 50's or 60's. I can throw that in for the time being 
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:25 pm to heartbreakTiger
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yep i enjoy stuff about the border war. also love the outlaw josey wales
In our Christmas gift exchange last year, I got my sister-in-law's boyfriend - a West Point grad and career military. I got him a couple of books on the border war. He was really excited, and said they didn't even include the border war in his courses on military history, despite the fact that it was an early example of successful guerilla warfare tactics.
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:25 pm to Rox
Hey Pox 
I've been back for a while. I was only banned for a lil over 48 hours.
I've been back for a while. I was only banned for a lil over 48 hours.
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:26 pm to heartbreakTiger
quote:You damn right
also love the outlaw josey wales
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:26 pm to heartbreakTiger
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iron sights
This makes it hard enough. dont know if you have ever been through basic training or anything but from experience it takes practice to shoot through iron sights...we zero'd our m16's in a 300 meters and tryin to hit a silhouette through iron sights at 300 meters if frickin difficult
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:26 pm to Lee County Tiger
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I'm playing with two of our seniors who are down for the year. I'm excited. I've already warned them I'm terrible.
Does the church you work at have a school?
Posted on 5/14/12 at 11:27 pm to MSCoastTigerGirl
quote:It felt like forever.
I've been back for a while. I was only banned for a lil over 48 hours.
I must have missed you the couple of IM threads that I jumped in.
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