Am I A Hero ??
My friend, Marnie, thanks so and sent me a notice that I have had my name added to list bein looked over for HERO OF THE MONTH at The Veterans Voice magazine..
http://www.theveteransvoice.com/Hero.html
Of course there is a list as long as my arm of folks I'd rather see there, but, I really dont have any choice in the matter..
I'll let ya'll know if I hear any more about this..
Thanks, Marnie..
http://www.theveteransvoice.com/Hero.html
Of course there is a list as long as my arm of folks I'd rather see there, but, I really dont have any choice in the matter..
I'll let ya'll know if I hear any more about this..
Thanks, Marnie..
posted by Wild Bill at 8:16 PM
11 Comments:
your link's bad, wild bill.
WB, good on you, except that I'm not sure you want the extra publicity.
But enjoy the nomination anyway.
Papa Ray
Sorry bout the link, Nanc, but I've tried to fix it but nothin I'm doin helps.. Must be a Blogger SNAFU somewhere in it..
I tried the full link addy in the post and it worked for me tho..
Congratulations, WB!! Hope you win it!! You're a hero to all of us, if that counts any!
I thought about that too, Papa Ray, but our old Unit is for the History Books now and the guys from it in our Yahoo Group will get a kick out of our Unit's name gettin a little spotlight again..
yep, you got our vote WB. Always knew it anyway. Looks good in ink tho!
Heck WB, I have been added to that same list too. Maybe I'll see you there.
WB - I can't find your e-mail address!! Having a blonde day, I suppose.
Thought you might enjoy reading this - you, too, Almtnman. A liberal friend of mind went crazy reading it!!!!!! Sorry for the length of it.
Subject:
The Uncomplicated Rational for Carrying a Firearm!!
By Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason
and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively
interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of
social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have
to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate
your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only ersonal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of
bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more
civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a [armed] mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by
choice or by legislative fiat--it has no validity when most of a
mugger's potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations
lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is
fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on
the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender,
not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The
gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weight lifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a
fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side
means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation...and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act.
"We have taken tolerance to such an extreme that we tolerate the immigration into our country of millions of intolerant people who hate millions of Americans who are already here."
Thomas Sowell
wild bill - i'm going to link you at my main blog, curtains.
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I know a hero when I see a hero .
Wild Bill and Almtnman,
Rest Assured y'all will be honored . It is going to take time to get y'all in The Veterans Voice due to the space she has available. They are trying to put 3 or 4 of my heroes in a month. www.theveteransvoice.com
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