09-15-2009, 11:38
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greenberetTFS is offline
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Rest in Peace, Warrior ................... 
Big Teddy
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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09-15-2009, 14:29
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Goggles Pizano is offline
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In pace requiescat SFC Thornsbury.
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You ask; What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.” You ask; What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.-Winston Churchill
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09-15-2009, 16:49
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RIP SFC Thornsbury
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Let us conduct ourselves in such a fashion that all nations wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies. The Virtues of War - Steven Pressfield
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09-15-2009, 18:12
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azmg is offline
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RIP SFC Thornsbury, and thank you for service.
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09-15-2009, 21:56
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Stras is offline
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RIP
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09-15-2009, 22:04
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Defion69 is offline
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RIP brother.
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09-21-2009, 11:38
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Richard is online now
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: NorCal
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Today in West Virginia:
Flags At Half-Staff For WV Green Beret
Charleston Daily Mail, 21 Sep 2009
Flags at state facilities in West Virginia will be lowered to half-staff in honor of a Green Beret from Bridgeport killed in Iraq.
Gov. Joe Manchin has ordered that all state and federal flags be lowered on Monday in honor of Sgt. Duane A. Thornsbury.
The 30-year-old Thornsbury was killed on Sept. 12 when the vehicle he was traveling in rolled over in Baghdad.
Thornsbury was a native of Clinton, Md., who grew up in Bridgeport and enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves in 1996.
He was a member of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force and earned his Green Beret as a weapons sergeant in 2006.
Manchin's office says Thornsbury will be posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and the Meritorious Service Medal.
http://dailymail.com/News/200909210179
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"By and by there was a little stir on the staircase and in the passageway, and in lounged a tall, loose-jointed figure, of an exaggerated Yankee port and demeanor, whom (as being about the homeliest man I ever saw, yet by no means repulsive or disagreeable) it was impossible not to recognize Uncle Abe."
- A Peaceable Man (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Atlantic Monthly, July 1862.
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09-21-2009, 12:44
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BryanK is offline
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RIP SFC Thornsbury. Our states flag has also been lowered to half-staff in honor.
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"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin." - President James Monroe
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09-21-2009, 15:13
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SF_BHT is offline
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Rest in Peace Brother....................
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09-21-2009, 15:37
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ZonieDiver is offline
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia (for now).
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Rest in Peace
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"I took a different route from most and came into Special Forces..." - Col. Nick Rowe
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09-22-2009, 10:09
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Enigma0122 is offline
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Rest in Peace.
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 Colonel Crealock speaking to Colour Sergeant reporting from Isandlwana, " One most remain calm during times of stress". From the movie Zulu Dawn
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