11-23-2011, 12:44
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Philadelphia,Pa.
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REASON'S
A man always has two good reasons for doing anything--- a good reason, and the real reason. Special Forces does things for the right reason.
SGM. Richard E. Pegram
U S Army Special Forces
KIA. 8/23/1968 Vietnam
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11-23-2011, 13:43
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#122
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Quiet Professional (RIP)
Join Date: May 2007
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Gone but not forgotten...
SGM. Richard E. Pegram
U S Army Special Forces
KIA. 8/23/1968 Vietnam
God Bless,Rest in Peace Warrior........... 
He was just a simple soldier and his ranks are growing thin
But his presence should remind us; we may need his like again,
For when countries are in conflict, then we find the soldier's part
Is to clean up all the troubles that the politicians start.
If we cannot do him honor while he's here to hear the praise,
Then at least let's give him homage at the ending of his days......... .
Perhaps just a simple headline in the paper that might say:
OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING, FOR A SOLDIER DIED TODAY. (author unknown)
The passing of our soldiers often go unnoticed and unsung by most of the world, remembered only by family and friends. Wish it were not so. May he RIP, his family will be in my thoughts and prayers.........
I realize it's a Canadian song,however I believe most appropriate for this occasion...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrkgV5bl7kQ
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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12-29-2011, 08:09
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#123
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Raeford
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The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you figure out why.
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"The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you figure out why." - Mark Twain
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12-30-2011, 00:21
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#124
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SF Candidate
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Ft. Bragg, NC
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
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12-30-2011, 05:18
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#125
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Quote:
Originally Posted by average321
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell
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"We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." – Winston Churchill
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01-06-2012, 20:53
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#126
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Guerrilla Chief
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“America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace.” – Ronald Reagan
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Heroes are often the most ordinary of men. - Henry David Thoreau.
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05-18-2012, 21:20
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#127
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Area Commander
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Location: Lone Star
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The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph
The greater the struggle, the more glorious the triumph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p98KAEif3bI
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"we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope" Rom. 5:3-4
"So we can suffer, and in suffering we know who we are" David Goggins
"Aide-toi, Dieu t'aidera " Jehanne, la Pucelle
Der, der Geld verliert, verliert einiges;
Der, der einen Freund verliert, verliert viel mehr;
Der, der das Vertrauen verliert, verliert alles.
INDNJC
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05-20-2012, 12:19
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#128
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: USA
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A man at his best. You are not so born. Strive daily to develop yourself in your person, in your calling, until perfection is attained: the fullness of your every gift, of your every faculty. You will know it in the improvement of your taste, in the clarification of your thinking, in the maturity of your judgement, in the control of your will. Some never attain the perfect, something always being lacking, and others are late in coming to themselves. The man complete, wise in speech, wise in action, is admitted, yea, he is welcomed into that rare fellowship of those who understand.
Baltasar Gracian
The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can carry a message to Garcia.
Elbert Hubbard, A Message to Garcia
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“Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings
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05-28-2012, 01:13
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#129
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
Calvin Coolidge
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05-29-2012, 02:26
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#130
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Area Commander
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Lone Star
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Once more into the fray
Into the last good fight I'll ever know
Live and die on this day
Live and die on this day
From The Grey. Since folks here are fond of FOG slugging it out with grizzly bear, wolves, giant spider  etc., I highly recommend the flick. The poem would make total sense then
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"we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope" Rom. 5:3-4
"So we can suffer, and in suffering we know who we are" David Goggins
"Aide-toi, Dieu t'aidera " Jehanne, la Pucelle
Der, der Geld verliert, verliert einiges;
Der, der einen Freund verliert, verliert viel mehr;
Der, der das Vertrauen verliert, verliert alles.
INDNJC
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05-29-2012, 13:46
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#131
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Guerrilla
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The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you figure out why." - Mark Twain
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05-29-2012, 13:53
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Area Commander
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“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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06-20-2012, 15:17
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Guerrilla Chief
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"It is most usually the stupid and ambitious, rather than the virtuous and wise, who seek and try to assume high office." Marsilius of Padua (14th century political philosopher)
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Heroes are often the most ordinary of men. - Henry David Thoreau.
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08-08-2012, 11:18
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#134
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"All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved."
-Sun Tzu
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08-08-2012, 13:45
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#135
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RIP Quiet Professional
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"I did wut?" Randy Travis
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