Just want to say Hi to all the grate people I have had the pleasure of corresponding with this past month or so, Hi Gypsy, johnman, pappy, grdaed, exp, tiger, josef, Andy, eric and all heads everyweir and hope one day our paths may cross.
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Our buddy! Come back to us safe and sound-for those pancakes at FreeWorld's place, ok? Am with MOM-am loving the hat with the uniform!!!!!
Be safe.
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Samuel Clemens
Don't leave home without it.
Yea my SYF hat I never leave home without it. Wanted to put this out there pictures are more personal than just words or avatars. Got about two more months on this trip.
run run run for the roses
Good ol GD ~
Your picture says a thousand words, It is truly beautiful! How about that for a Time Cover ? Thank you for sharing & Stay Safe.
PEACE
Had to look at this photo again
Thank you so much for posting this one. Is such a vivid reminder that no matter how anybody personally feels about this war, the guys there dealing with it first hand are just that. Normal people that we gotta get back home, in one piece.**********************************
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you will still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Samuel Clemens
Thanks groovy people
Hey now- thanks for all your replies to this pic. It really means alot makes one feel close when so far away. 43 days left on a 15 month turn. If there's snow in MO when I get back think doing naked snow angels would be appropriate, well maybe til the cops come and take me away, ho ho he he they're coming to take me away haha to the funny farm aaaa woops anyway thanks. I wonder how much has changed, like will I be shot on sight for lighting a smoke.
say can I have some of your purple berrys,- yes I've been eating them 6-7 weeks now, haven't got sick once, probably keep us both alive.
Goddamn....
Thank YOU, brother....that picture is great. STAY SAFE & I sure hope to meet you someday SOON!!! In the meantime - if you get any down time and wanna listen to theCAUSE's latest show for some good relaxation...
http://www.archive.org/details/theCAUSE_Halloween2008_PDs
Peace
~ Pappy
www.theCAUSEjams.com
"Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right." - Robert Hunter
hey GOGD
I just happened to be thinking about something else, namely the Blue Star Moms (an organization of local groups of moms who have kids in the service), who are about to start gathering up Christmas stuff for the troops, I think.
I was wondering if, on a small scale, there was something the Tie Die Star Moms and Dads could do/gather/send to make life easier for you guys. If so, speak up and we'll see what we can do.
Keep the shiny side up ! ! ;}>~
Great shot/pic! dead'z everwhere! like it is & should be! tnx. ~ luv ya'z ~d~
Almost done
Got about 17 more days left. Still seems like forever. I do have faith but one tune keeps singing in my head, "Nothings for certain, it can always go wrong", but on a happier note checkedout info for "Gathering of the Vibes" for July 2009. Close to my original home, Any of freak brothers and sisters plan on going? looks to be a good ole east coast bop.
I'm gonna go for it , it's for sure.
Excellent
to hear how short you are. Speaking of the fish cheer, what rhymes with it but starts with a D? Prolly not a bad model for the next couple of weeks or so... Quack!
Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
short-timer!!
damn!!......so small gotta stand on a nickel ta piss ona dime!!. now is not the time to get complacent...nor so anxious you make mistakes......good luck bro!! keep it together and you'll be home soon...when do ya actually retire??
Retirement
johnman- 2yrs 10 months looking forward to it. But still a way's off then who knows will probably start teaching scuba. Maybe I can save the world with a beer can. Any ideas. 20 yrs is enough. Been awfully adventurous though. been all around this world. Think I gonna just do alot of festing and let loose for a while anyway still a few years out. Looking to buy some land and that in Maine. Maybe start a Deadhead refuge lots of heads in Maine, NH, VT. But will probably be in Asscrackistan next year though. Fuck, oh well freedom isn't free.
Of a brand new crescent moon
As much as this place is a real shithole. The sky tonight is really beautiful. Not sure if everyone can see what I'm looking at. Is a cool clear sky here in the land of the crescent moon. It is tonight a crescent moon with Venus in the northwest corner and Jupiter to the north east. It really is a site. If it is like this tomorrow night I'll try to get a picture. It is really bright and clear really something to see. Anyway just thought I throw this out there.
Counting stars by candlelight
Some are dim but one is bright
The spiral light on Venus
Rising first and shining best
Oh, from the north-west corner
Of a brand new crescent moon
it is nice!
i was trying for some pictures last nite also... tonite is suppose to be better, an album cover shot!!
good luck, you guys...
we're socked in with fog here and missing the whole thing!
Thought this was kinda touching, espcially the part about a "son
especially the part about a "son" I an surely relate. Hope to be home this year for xmas.
The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.
The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the
sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.
Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.
"What are you doing?" I asked without fear,
"Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!"
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts..
To the window that danced with a warm fire's light
Then he sighed and he said "Its really all right,
I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night."
"It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.
No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at ' Pearl on a day in December,"
Then he sighed, "That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers."
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ' Nam ',
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.
I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue... an American flag.
I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.
I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall."
" So go back inside," he said, "harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right."
"But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
"Give you money," I asked, "or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son."
Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
"Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us."
brother
an old and dear friend sent me this same poem recently in email and i was trying to figure out how to send it to you. thank you for beating me to it. where ever you are this Christmas God bless you and keep you safe. thank you for your commitment......................." but only in the blood of brave men can freedom be measured "