07-19-2010, 16:55
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Nick Bacon MOH
The Full article can be locate here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...071802808.html
Nick Bacon, who enlisted in the Army at 17 to escape his life as a farm laborer and who went on to receive the nation's highest military decoration for his courage in combat during the Vietnam War, died July 17 of cancer at his home in Rose Bud, Ark. He was 64.
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07-19-2010, 17:08
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Area Commander
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Rest in Peace, Sir...this grateful nation shall not forget you.
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07-19-2010, 17:43
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Gold Star Father
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Rest in Peace, Warrior. Thank you for your service and your sacrifice, and for the inspiration you have had on so many. You will ALWAYS be missed and NEVER forgotten.
molon labe
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07-19-2010, 17:50
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"I hated picking cotton and that other stuff," he said. "I've done my share of it. And I'll guarantee you one thing: I've never, ever went back to it once I was old enough to hold a man's job."
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I agree with him. Army was easier than picking cotton.
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07-20-2010, 03:53
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Location: 18 yrs upstate NY, 30 yrs South Florida, 20 yrs Conch Republic, now chasing G-Kids in NOVA & UK
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RIP Warrior, Vaya con Dios..
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07-20-2010, 05:19
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God Bless,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....
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SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
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07-20-2010, 07:02
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Area Commander
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Rest In Peace Warrior.
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07-20-2010, 10:22
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Adios warrior
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07-20-2010, 16:21
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RIP
Rest In Peace
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07-22-2010, 23:45
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Quiet Professional
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Rest In Peace.
Rest In Peace, Nick and THANK YOU for your sacrifice....tom kelly
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07-23-2010, 07:13
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Guerrilla Chief
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Rest in Peace
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Understand the problem; pull your weight. Appreciate. Be completely honest and trustworthy in all things. - Jeff Cooper
Practice honesty and integrity; rescue the man who has been wronged from the hands of his oppressor; do not exploit the stranger, the orphan, the widow; do no violence; shed no innocent blood in this place. Jer 22:3
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke
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07-28-2010, 03:02
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Guerrilla
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Nick Bacon MOH
Rest in Peace. Thank you for your service and bravery.
Sincerely,
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"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed." William Ernest Henley
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