On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:24:48 +0000
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>
>
> Back to your old tactics of adding words and meaning to my post.
> If you cannot accept my explanation of what I wrote AND, at the
> same time, feel the need to add wording to the post, I see no
> point in continuing the discussion. jd
> From: Judy Taylor <
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> > Well JD the tone of your email was negative so I read it as
> something
> > other than a compliment along with the fact
> > that most of the time cute little rich girls are spoiled pagans.
> Do you
> > know of one cute little rich girl celebrity who
> > is a "steadfast" believer in the Lord Jesus Christ? If not then
> this is
> > not a description of Linda. jt.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:06:40 +0
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> > Nothing wrong with being a cute little rich girl, Judy. You have
> > fashioned an argument for no good reason. I do not need lessons
> on
> > wealth and happiness. The contrast between her young life in
> Oregon and
> > the life she now has as a successful doctor's wife has to be
> remarkable.
> > And it my understanding that she rather enjoys her present
> circumstance.
> > You made too much of my second paragraph below.
> >
> > jd
> >
> > From: Judy Taylor <
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> >
> > JD, what's this "cute little rich girl" stuff? Haven't you read
> what
> > Linda has been writing all these years.
> > She has hardly had a "cute little rich girl" life. Anyway money
> doe
s not
> > make anyone happy. Our daughter is
> > married to someone who makes big bucks but is proving to be
> spiritually,
> > emotionally, and morally desolate.
> > Ask her if "rich is where it is at?" She is cute and so are our
> three
> > grandaughters but it is not enough. Hurting
> > ppl hurt other people and seldom hold themselves responsible.
> judyt
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 23:47:25 +0000
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> > I don't consider you as one who is qualified to discuss anything
> > concerning the condition of the heart. You will disagree, of
> course,
> > but you have shown a distinct harshness towards those who disagree
> with
> > you, who are not of the same poltitical party, who do not share
> the same
> > social standing (i.e. the poor blacks in N.O.) . Still, at other
& amp;g t; times,
> > you almost seem human.
> >
> > Your account of the home in Oregon perhaps explains why you
> enjoy, so
> > much, being a cute little rich girl.
> >
> > jd
> >
> > -------------- Original message --------------
> > From: "ShieldsFamily" <
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> >
> > You and your ilk cant tell the difference between war heroes and
> > murderers. Your loss. What a pitiful state of mind. What an
> empty
> > heart. iz
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > From:
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>
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> > Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 12:03 PM
> > To: TruthTalk@mail.innglory.org> > Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Real men kill people
> >
> > real women marry murderers??
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:51:41 +0000
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> > Has he ever killed anyone from a mile and half away?
> >
> > -------------- Original message --------------
> > From: "ShieldsFamily" <
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> > Its great to know there are some real men in Canada, in spite of
> the
> > wimps that run the P.C. government. (In fact, my husband was born
> on a
> > US AF base in Newfoundland. J ) iz
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sniping with the .50 BMG in Afghanistan
> &g
t; New l ong-di stance record set!
> >
> > (The following is from the Canadian newspaper National Post. The
> shooters
> > were using .50 BMG rifles that had Lilja barrels on them outfitted
> with
> > Nightforce 5.5-22x NXS scopes.)
> > OTTAWA BLOCKS U.S. EFFORT TO HONOUR OUR SNIPERS: Canadian snipers
> pose
> > with their 50-calibre rifle at base camp in Kandahar. Five of the
> men,
> > whose names the military withheld for security reasons, were
> nominated
> > for Bronze Stars by the U.S. for their prowess in fighting near
> Gardez.
> > The sixth joined the unit later in the war.
> > Wait due to 'Canadian protocol'
> > A kill from 2,430 metres
> > By Michael Smith and Chris Wattie
> > National Post
> >
> > The United States wants to give two teams of Canadian snipers the
> Bronze
> > Star, a decoration for bravery, for their work in root
ing out < BR>> Taliban and
> > al-Qaeda holdouts in eastern Afghanistan, but Canadian defence
> officials
> > put the medals on hold, the National Post has learned.
> > The five snipers spent 19 days fighting alongside the scout
> platoon of
> > the United States Army's 187th "Rakkasan" brigade last month,
> clearing
> > out diehard fighters from the mountains near Gardez in eastern
> > Afghanistan.
> > The Americans were so impressed by the Canadian snipers that they
> > recommended them for medals after the battle.
> > Sources told the Post that U.S. General Warren Edwards had already
> signed
> > the recommendation for five Bronze Stars for the sniper teams,
> drawn from
> > 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, last
> month.
> > Gen. Edwards, deputy commanding general of coalition land forces
> in
> > Afghanistan, had recommended thre
e Canadians for a Bronz e Star and
> two
> > for a Bronze Star with distinction.
> > The night before the troops were to be awarded the medals, about
> three
> > weeks ago, Canadian military officials in Ottawa put the
> decorations on
> > hold, according to a U.S. Army source in Afghanistan.
> > The Canadian military told their U.S. counterparts to wait before
> > awarding the medals for reasons of "Canadian protocol."
> > Spokesmen for the Department of National Defence would not comment
> on the
> > award last night, but a source within the department said the
> medals are
> > on hold while the military decides whether or not to award the men
> a
> > similar Canadian decoration.
> > However, Dr David Bercuson, director of the Centre of Military
> and
> > Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary, said the real
> reason for
> > the delay was likely offici
al squeamishness .
&g t; > "Canadians don't kill -- they don't even use the word kill; that's
> the
> > problem," he said. "I think the military is not sure that the
> government
> > is prepared to accept the fact, let alone celebrate the fact ...
> that
> > Canadian soldiers do sometimes end up killing people."
> > Many of the U.S. scouts who worked directly with the Canadian
> snipers
> > were incensed that the Canadians did not get the Bronze Star, the
> medal
> > for bravery the U.S. military usually gives foreign soldiers
> serving
> > alongside its troops.
> > The snipers themselves, all of whom spoke on condition their names
> not be
> > printed, have said they would prefer to receive a medal from their
> peers
> > in the field rather than from National Defence Headquarters in
> Ottawa.
> > Dr. Bercuson said there should be no objection to Canadians
&g
t; receiving a
> > U .S. decoration: As recently as the Gulf War, two Canadian CF-18
> pilots
> > were given the Bronze Star.
> > He said the medals would be a badly needed boost to the morale of
> the
> > almost 900 Canadian soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan,
> especially
> > after four of their comrades were killed and eight others wounded
> in last
> > week's friendly fire incident.
> > "Absolutely they should get it," Dr. Bercuson said. "It would be
> good for
> > the morale of the guys and good for the morale of the whole unit,
> and
> > they need a morale boost right now."
> > Canadian snipers were reportedly outstanding in the fighting
> around the
> > mountainous al-Qaeda bastion east of Gardez, code-named Operation
> > Anaconda.
> > The battle pitted the two Canadian sniper teams against an enemy
> that
> > showered the assaulting coalition
troops with mort ars and
& gt; machine-gun
> > fire as soon as they jumped from their helicopters.
> > One member of the team, a corporal from Newfoundland, said on his
> first
> > night in combat he and his partner got an al-Qaeda machine gun in
> their
> > sights as it was hailing bullets down on U.S. troops below.
> Crawling up
> > into a good position, they set up their .50-calibre rifle -- the
> McMillan
> > Tac-50, a weapon the corporal compares to having superhuman power
> in your
> > hands. "Firing it feels like someone slashing you on the back of
> your
> > hockey helmet with a hockey stick." (These are the rifles fitted
> with
> > Lilja .50 caliber barrels and Nightforce NXS scopes.)
> > When he hit his first target, an enemy gunman at a distance of
> 1,700
> > metres, he said all that ran through his mind was locating his
> next
> > target.
> > "All I t hought of was Sept . 11th and all those people who didn't
> have a
> > chance and the American reporter who was taken hostage, murdered
> and his
> > wife getting the videotape of the execution; that is my
> justification."
> > A master corporal from Ontario, the lead sniper of his three-man
> team,
> > said when they first landed in the combat zone "our spider senses
> were
> > tingling.... It was night and we didn't know what to expect."
> > By daylight, after coming under enemy machine-gun fire, he managed
> to
> > ease his rifle barrel between two rocks and quickly located an
> enemy
> > sniper hiding behind a small piece of corrugated steel between two
> trees.
> > He guessed the distance at 1,700 metres and fired one shot through
> the
> > metal, killing the man instantly.
> > He said afterward he remembered thinking: "That's one less bullet
&g
t; that's
> & gt; gonna be coming at us, one less person we have to think about."
> > During the next four days of fighting, the Newfoundland corporal
> set what
> > is believed to be a record for a long-distance shot under combat
> > conditions, hitting an enemy gunman at a distance of 2,430 metres.
> > The days of crawling, shooting and long hours waiting in cover
> left the
> > Canadian snipers exhausted. "You don't realize what you've done to
> your
> > body and how tired you are till it's all done. I think we slept 14
> or 15
> > hours when we got back," the master corporal said.
> > Three of them, along with U.S. special forces soldiers, also
> rescued a
> > company of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division that was pinned down
> by enemy
> > fire on the first day of Operation Anaconda.
> > They also participated in Operation Harpoon, with Canadian troops
> on "the
> >
; whale," a mountain ove rlooking the Shah-e -Kot valley where
> al-Qaeda
> > fighters were putting up stiff resistance.
> > Operation Harpoon, carried out in conjunction with Operation
> Anaconda,
> > consisted of 500 Canadian and 100 U.S. troops under the command of
> > Lieutenant-Colonel Pat Stogran, who leads Canadian Forces in
> Afghanistan
> > in the biggest ground offensive since the Korean War.
> > Lieutenant Justin Overbaugh, of the American scout platoon to
> which the
> > Canadian snipers were attached, said it was a pleasure to work
> with the
> > Canadian troops. "Their professionalism was amazing," Lieut.
> Overbaugh
> > said. "The Canadians were a very large asset to the mission. I
> would have
> > loved to have 12 Canadian sniper teams out there. I'd have no
> problems
> > fighting alongside of them again."
> > He said the Canadian snipers had equipment f
ar superior to theirs.
> Their
> > rifles had longer range than the U.S. weapons and better high-tech
> > sights. Lieut. Overbaugh said if another mission comes up, he will
> > request the Canadian sniper teams be sent with his unit.
> > Senior military officials in Ottawa made a point of praising their
> work
> > at the time. "The sniper teams suppressed enemy mortars and heavy
> > machine-gun positions with deadly accuracy," Vice-Admiral Greg
> Maddison
> > said after Operation Harpoon ended. "Their skills are credited
> with
> > likely having saved many allied lives."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
judyt &n bsp; &nbs p;
>
> >
> > He that says "I know Him" and doesn't keep His Commandments
> > is a liar (1 John 2:4)
> >
> >
> >
> > judyt
>
> >&nbs
p; ;
> > He that says "I know Him" and doesn't keep His Commandments
> is a liar (1 John 2:4)
>
>
> judyt
He that says "I know Him" and doesn't keep His Commandments
is a liar (1 John 2:4)
