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"The War Prayer" by Mark Twain It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles be...

more CountryTunes from one who's not only OUT of tehCountry!!, but he's still out of tune!! =:oP 1. highway20Ride!! ....going down MSR and seeing that poor bicyclist giving about "20" of his countrymen a ride.....down tehHighway. 2. AmrikanHoney!! ....we peek atchoo in your CHU, we leer atchoo in your sleep.... you should shut your webCam off. 3. a lil' more Country thanThat!? it's not hard to imagine a dirt road, or even potholes, hell. Our potholes will blow your ass up!! 4. temporaryHome!! just another stop, right here i'll flop in my temporary... erh, in my CHU!! 5. tillSummer comes around!! in fact, it's already here, even at christmas and newYears!! i should know, i spent both midnights footPatrolling and laying in garbage watching for insurgents to mortar the FOB!! 6. ain'tBack yet!! yes, i feel like i been gone forever too, 7. gimmieThat girl!! the one in theBlackHijab, w/ black gloves to give me handJob or you can use mine!! 8. ain...

(based on real events) ----------------- Location: Kirkuk, Iraq FOB WARRIOR Today being Saturday, it was Wednesday a.m. when I woke up from a brief 2hr rest in cold sweat prodded awake by a recurring nightmare of a Village-scene lived through years ago when I was PublicSafety, My green PX bought sheets were literally wet in sweat and my tucked in PT shirt was getting warmer from urine. I squeezed my bladder to stop but couldn't.  I hopped from bed and quickly changed, put away the wet sheets into theHeavy green laundry bag, inspected and then folded up the heavy sportsTeam logo blanket given to me by KBRbilleting, it too was damp from moisture. After I left theVillage!! years ago I started having nightmares about certain events, of trauma that happened to others, of what I saw and went through Often alone w/ no one else to help me, and over the years theBad dreams melted away and became a distant memory. Until now, when halfway around theWorld while in service to my country, I ...

top 25 Things theHaji chefs will never tell you!! Reply with quoteQuote Modify messageModify WTF i know this is weird, but when I posted these to faceBook it was formatted better, and besides, you have to read from theBottom up!! tongue-out Samuel Flyinghorse tada!! *drumRoll* theSam!!'s top25 Things theDFACchefs Will NeverTell You!! (((insert your own comment here))) lovs, theSam!! Samuel Flyinghorse tS!!t25TtDFACcWNTY!! 24. we recycle as much as we can too ya' know, We roll thePieCrusts w/that ExhaustTubing when that last MRAP got hit by IED, and we preRoll extra PaniniSandwiches w/TireTread, we Still sign for foodShipments with Sgt ButterFingers hand after last years DFAC bombing!! Blank Stare Samuel Flyinghorse tS!!t25TtDFACcWNTY!! 23. Wow, almost 25 to go. This totally strains credibility listing these things, not like Khamed though, when he strains theFruitPuree for morning breakfast, he does so like you stomp grapes but this is Iraq, we let our donkeys help out too!! W...

Distance Education!! Check out tehUndergraduate courses that theNevehGraduated!! is currently taking while on deployment. -Acct101!! Principles of Accounten!! When 1stSergeant gives thePlatoon 5 seconds to break formation and get out of his sight, How many pushups does theLakotaSoldier do?!  (hint-hint, it's as many fingers as ya' got cos thePTFail still is!!) -Acct301!! IntermediateAccounting!! *preReq to BusLaw and as it pertains to ForeignRelations and those stacks of funny money you'll confiscate at various roadside checkPoints while deployed* Useful for when theTerp!! (your Platoons Interpreter) goes round robin round thePlatoon 3x asking for falafel money and you're absolutely positive that by 2nd request from him, you gave him over $50 but when he counts back change after everyone changed their minds, theTerp!! only hands back $10 in iraqiDinar!!..... At least you're rolling in truckloads of money, FUNNY money, but falafel-less and get this. Everyone aroun...

More Headspace from theSam!!'s MySpace account. boy, is he spaced!! ------- Samuel L Flyinghorse wishing that my bodyArmor had built in airconditioner!!, so far, my ACU's have built in food dispensers (pockets) Mood: bummed Samuel L Flyinghorse just a friendly reminder that tehSam!! posts Silliness on MySpace, FaceBook, AlaskaVillageTales!! and now on Twitter!!, Catch one or catch 'em all!! Mood: happy Posted at 10:07 AM Feb 16 view more comment Add comment... Submit 1 comment total show more hide all show Samuel L Flyinghorse still oldSchool!!, cos his girlFriends still slap his hands-just like mrsNye!! Mood: bummed Posted at 2:40 PM Feb 14 view more comment Add comment... Submit 1 comment total show more hide all show Samuel L Flyinghorse If I could dream... mine would be about fields of Falafel, running through acres of falafel!! Mood: amused Posted at 2:39 PM Feb 14 view more comment Add comment... Submit 1 comment total show more hide all show Samuel L Flyinghorse If I...

theSam!! on FACEBOOK!! Samuel Flyinghorse   *woot!!*, got a dryer that actually works!! 2 hours ago Only Friends · Comment · LikeUnlike Write a comment... Samuel Flyinghorse Remove Samuel Flyinghorse .....doesn't qualify me for CIB, our DrillSgt/DS in Ft Benning said what was required to earn CIB. 2 hours ago Only Friends · Comment · LikeUnlike Write a comment... Samuel Flyinghorse Remove Samuel Flyinghorse rumor has it that some of us present on patrol when our Sgt got shot will get CIB/combatInfantryBadge, granted I was Humvee driver that day and 1stLT jumped into vehicle & we picked Sgt up & back to base...... 2 hours ago Only Friends · Comment · LikeUnlike · View Feedback (1)Hide Feedback (1) Michelle Nicole Morado Michelle Nicole Morado oh my goodness...is he alright? are you? is everyone else??? 41 minutes ago · Write a comment... Samuel Flyinghorse Remove Samuel Flyinghorse wow, free wifi at laundry is more reliable than snip...