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Friends,
First I want to say that I am not a pacifist! In fact I wanted to be in the Navy like my uncle Joe had been not on no damn submarine though. My third cousin won the medal of honor, John New of Mobile and lost his life I think Pele lieu in WWII. He saved some officers in a cave by throwing himself on a grenade after it rolled too far into the cave for him to throw back out after a Jap tossed it in on him.
My uncle Gary was scared of the water and wound up a frogman in the Marine Corps during Korea, my Dad wanted to run a boat in the Vietnam war but wasn't able to because of most likely me. I'm not sure about that I just assume my sister and I were the reason he wasn't able to do what he told me he wanted to do.
My Grandfather Wooley was general superintendant in Panama City in WWII building liberty ships- 1 a month I might ad! We had someone in the "Rainbow division" in WWI as well I just don't have the name. Lost his toes or feet in France so I've been told from the bitter cold.
My grandmother Wooley used to have a sword that had blood stains on it supposedly from the Civil War but I was to ADHD to really pay attention! LOL!
I wish I had looked closely at that sword, I wish I knew where it was my youngest son would flip over that because he loves swordsmanship and we both Love the Tom cruise movie in which he plays an American Lieut. advising the Japanese in the 1870's!
In fact who knows if I ever get the money I'd love to find out through ancestry.com just where it leads because A man named Peter Wooley wrote journals and being a store owner from Virginia sailed with John Paul Jones the father of our Navy. They fought together after the American revolution for Catherine The Great before Jones passing and return to America. I don't know what happened to the journals Wooley wrote. Supposedly they are in the Smithsonian. Related? I doubt it. I wish.
The bottom-line is I was against the second Iraq war but NOT finding and killing those responsible for the 9/11 attacks that we all get a feeling in our chests about- I do!
Thank God for the hero on the plane that said, **** this let's roll! I'm not quoting him or any of those passengers but I'm sure they were not thinking much of dieing if they overheard what their intended destination was to be.
Did they ever (Government) release the actual intended target? I don't know. could have been the Capital or The White house and that my friends would have been all the more terrible on what is right there with Pearl.
In fact some including myself almost feel it was worse because they were civilian targets in a sneak attack.
As for the current situation in Afghanistan? This country either controls territory or it doesn't- Cronkite would let us know and we should have daily news reports on the exact nature of what territory we control and what we don't.
I'm a democrat and for Obama but let's establish some lines in that place call it a victory and get the Hell out! Sooner than later. Use all this Technology we have to monitor the Tora Bora mountains and the borders like we should be doing our own and to Hell with it!
I don't feel good about what will happen when we leave but we should leave. I don't think the British, Russians or anyone else that has ever fought in that place has ever wanted to leave as badly as once they got there and they paid a heavy price to leave.
I feel it tore the Soviet Union apart, not Reagan out spending them on defense (nukes) and (ships). I'm just guessing because I haven't researched it in a while.
I can and will because history and not repeating it are my passion well hobby.
Who cares where Al Qaeda is? I do! President Clinton had them running with cruise missles and I'm sure special forces when they could find two of them together but the Taliban?
The Taliban is nonthing but a worthless bunch of women hating bastards that I guess Pakistan will have to handle and we need to support them at all costs, that's why we need to get out of Afghanistan!
If it falls which it will then so be it! Being there for a hundred years or until we as a country fall apart economically and socially over a war we should have called a victory several years ago and left is something we can't fix now or we as I said will suffer as a country or worse.
Let's keep our borders secure. Let people in with papers to make a better life for themselves, don't train any terrorists to fly commercial jets and rebuild our military not dismantle it or leave it weakened by these wars!
The technology gained to what degree I have no way of knowing but as my grandfather Sauce told me once "no one wanted our division because we were over trained so Patton took us"! That tells me our troops have enough experince and it may show in ways we don't want to see if they get frustrated "playing" games with people that could at any minute trun on them.
Let's have a ticker tape parade for our troops coming home in victory because we didn't lose vietnam as some say either the South Vietmanese just couldn't and never would be able to defend against the North!
Our country should do everything old T. Bone Pickens says to do and get "off" oil in now 8 years as he had hoped we could when President Obama took office. Let 'em have their oil and defend Isreal or just go sit down with Iran's President who may be shooting off at the mouth like Saddam was to save his life, place and what control he has over what in my opinion is a worse situation than Saddam had in Iraq due to the extremist Ayetollahs. I hope I'm wrong.
Otherwise we have a chance in our lifetime's to see something Israel may not be able to handle on it's own and that is another holocaust.
Our military needs equipment. It would seem obvious from the news reports you do hear because we aren't using the "cruise missiles" like we were. Question? How many of the damn things did the Bush administration use?
The navy could use these coastal defense ships which are seemingly more in line with a light destroyer on steroids that Austal is building or is waiting to build.
Boeing can build something else and let Alabama have those jobs building those Tankers or putting them together so we can be anywhere in the world as quickly as possible and keep those carriers- every last one and build one and name it the William J Clinton!
I'm sure the whole military considering how long we have millions at work- well it takes what 10 to 1 to support a soldier is ready for a break and the rest of us are too and we are Damn proud of the work they have accomplished but let's not waste our money, resources, lives and equipment on a country that will fall to the Taliban.
There is more to life than living or dieing don't you think? Keep families apart and do it for now on as it seems we are prepared to do and will the country heal from it in a few years? I'm not so sure. The deaths have not been in vain because I think we did the job once or twice already on Alquaeda and we can hunt them down like we were when Bush took office and let them have it with a missile everything we can!
Let's balance a budget again and build some homes for these men and their families coming home and close the loop holes that have drained this country of cash!
Another story for another time that last paragraph is but let's save this country and keep a strong Navy, Army, Air Force and Marine corps that can pound somebody into the ground if need be and use the special forces to hunt those damn terrorists!
Sincerely,
Floyd C. Wooley
P.s.- Wikipedia, read some history and support that organization because without history we all are destined to repeat some mistake or allow the actions of a few to ruin life for us all!
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