Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

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The HK thing was photoshopped by some guy on Glocktalk about 1000 internet generations ago.

 

So you are saying someone bought a physical catalog - with that VERY picture on it - off of Ebay that had a photoshopped cover? Are you related to Gunkid by chance?

 

I think I just peed a little.

 

The Jolie pic could be titled - "Young obama auditions for the first episode of Soul Train"........

 

Oh Snap !!!

 

When my ship anchored n Mombasa, Kenya once, a few of us went out into the outlying areas and met the real folks - not the Indians who ran the merchant shops in town. We felt much better buying our trinkets (wood carvings and such) from the people making them, than paying the 'middleman'. The people appreciated that too - got them more money than the Indians gave them.
Whenever I travelled, I'd get out away from the 'tourist traps'. I enjoyed meeting the people who lived there.
Mombasa was far from being 'deepest darkest Africa' though..... take away the huge tusks over the main drag, and it looks exactly like Quincy, Florida.

 

The Ninth

 

Some may think of it as an old piece of bunting....

One not only stands for the colours as a colour party passes by, but stands at attention....He knows that, and is doing the best that a man of his age and condition can do. The pity of it is...that the custom is not more generally known, nor the reasons for observing it, understood. But, my guess is, that given the numbers of a younger generation of servicwomen and servicemen who have served in the Gulf wars, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, the custom may hopefully experience something of a comeback.

What to the seated may just be entertainment....to an elderly man in a wheelchair, standing as the colour party passes, is an act of remembrance and respect, therein lies the difference.

It puts me in mind of a poem that I recall from my childhood....

 

Things seem to have gotten better here when it comes to soldiers and flags passing in parades. The last couple I took the kids to the vast majority actually shocked me by standing. Course I don't know if they stood for the flag or because the M1A2 rolling behind it pretty much commands one to stand and take notice.

2011 Memorial Day Parade - Lima, Ohio - YouTube

 

RR, I think you just found your bugout vehicle right there!
You might want to change the color from desert to urban or woodland but I don't see anyone stopping you in that.

 

Brings a tear to my eye every time too