THE THREAD!!!

[AW1Steve]

[:D][:D][:D]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Bloody volcano...

Yep... airports closed again (in my country as well)...


Leo "Apollo11"

[Apollo11]

Hi all,




Leo "Apollo11"

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Mynok


Drowning myself in rye and rumination. Bad rye I might...this is not what the good Lord intended as whiskey. Never again will it sully my cupboard.

But it is what it is...and now some good coffee and rest. Perhaps tomorrow will let the light into the tunnel. Light into the darkness. Brightness into the mist of morose.

Or not. C'est la vie.

Trouble getting to sleep last night, so I watched an uplifting movie about humanity and the fine and upstanding virtuous NGOs that protect humanity so well. It was called "Hotel Rwanda". Really uplifting movie....not. [:(]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Bloody volcano...

Yep... airports closed again (in my country as well)...


Leo "Apollo11"

Wow![X(] I'm sorry I laughed in my earlier post! I'd had no idea that the conditions were still bad. (Sorry, my TV's packed and the news blogs I've looked at really haven't gone into that kind of detail.). So again, I sorry for you,Terminus and Dixie, I didn't mean to laugh at you misfortune.[:(]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Mynok


Drowning myself in rye and rumination. Bad rye I might...this is not what the good Lord intended as whiskey. Never again will it sully my cupboard.

But it is what it is...and now some good coffee and rest. Perhaps tomorrow will let the light into the tunnel. Light into the darkness. Brightness into the mist of morose.

Or not. C'est la vie.

Trouble getting to sleep last night, so I watched an uplifting movie about humanity and the fine and upstanding virtuous NGOs that protect humanity so well. It was called "Hotel Rwanda". Really uplifting movie....not. [:(]

I wish that it was fiction, or even simply in the past. But I honestly think that a lot of the NGO's out there don't help with problems, they make them worse.[X(]

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Bloody volcano...

Yep... airports closed again (in my country as well)...


Leo "Apollo11"

Wow![X(] I'm sorry I laughed in my earlier post! I'd had no idea that the conditions were still bad. (Sorry, my TV's packed and the news blogs I've looked at really haven't gone into that kind of detail.). So again, I sorry for you,Terminus and Dixie, I didn't mean to laugh at you misfortune.[:(]

No misfortune mate. It's not affecting me right now.

[Onime No Kyo]

May 9th tithe. [&o]


I know that this date means different things for different people, for some, perhaps nothing at all. For some it's about who won. For others its about how, and with what weapons and tactics. For some, its about politics and ideology. I wanted to tell you what it means for me.

For me, this day is about all the young men and women who never came back. As I look at the photographs of their happy, smiling faces, pictured before the war or during some moment of respite in the action, and I ask myself, who were they? When people speak of the Greatest Generation, I strongly disagree. In those photographs, I do not see people who are any different than myself. I see young people, in the prime of their lives, who wanted to live, love, raise families. Instead, they went to war, and they did not come back.

For me this day is about them. With all my heart I want to thank them for the sacrifice they made so that I, and my often thankless generation, could enjoy the things that we have.

[DuckofTindalos]

Interesting part of this year's Victory Day parade in Moscow was the presence of US and British troops. Wonder what the REAL reaction in the Russian people was to this, as opposed to the one reported by lazy Western media?

I read one comment from a Russian veteran, who said he had no problem with the presence of foreigners in Red Square. "I don't know any Americans, but I was quite happy to eat their sausages at the front".

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Bloody volcano...

Yep... airports closed again (in my country as well)...


Leo "Apollo11"

Wow![X(] I'm sorry I laughed in my earlier post! I'd had no idea that the conditions were still bad. (Sorry, my TV's packed and the news blogs I've looked at really haven't gone into that kind of detail.). So again, I sorry for you,Terminus and Dixie, I didn't mean to laugh at you misfortune.[:(]

No misfortune here. I wasn't referring to airport closures, but that fact that all the ash in the atmosphere probably contributes to making this a cold spring around here...

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Interesting part of this year's Victory Day parade in Moscow was the presence of US and British troops. Wonder what the REAL reaction in the Russian people was to this, as opposed to the one reported by lazy Western media?

I read one comment from a Russian veteran, who said he had no problem with the presence of foreigners in Red Square. "I don't know any Americans, but I was quite happy to eat their sausages at the front".

To the best of my knowledge (from personal meetings with veterans, memoirs, etc) the average Russian had nothing against the average American. They appreciated the lend lease, but the long coming of the Second Front was an old and bitter joke for most. When the allies met on the Elbe, the Russians greeted the Americans as bothers in arms.

I have always thought it a shame that that attitude did not carry over to the higher echelons. I also once posted a picture with comments to that effect. As I recall, that was the first time I was called a Commie on this forum.

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Interesting part of this year's Victory Day parade in Moscow was the presence of US and British troops. Wonder what the REAL reaction in the Russian people was to this, as opposed to the one reported by lazy Western media?

I read one comment from a Russian veteran, who said he had no problem with the presence of foreigners in Red Square. "I don't know any Americans, but I was quite happy to eat their sausages at the front".

From the tidbits I've heard over the years, that is a very common feeling from most of the "common folk" who are on different sides of a fence. I've read the same type of things quoted from Iranian civilians. I'd be willing to bet that the average US citizen would have a slightly less "carefree" attitude about Russian/Iranian/North Korean/etc citizens, due to the overly large impact the media has on typical US people.

I would have been proud to march along side Russian soldiers and sailors in a Victory Day parade if the chance had been there when I was active duty.

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Interesting part of this year's Victory Day parade in Moscow was the presence of US and British troops. Wonder what the REAL reaction in the Russian people was to this, as opposed to the one reported by lazy Western media?

I read one comment from a Russian veteran, who said he had no problem with the presence of foreigners in Red Square. "I don't know any Americans, but I was quite happy to eat their sausages at the front".

To the best of my knowledge (from personal meetings with veterans, memoirs, etc) the average Russian had nothing against the average American. They appreciated the lend lease, but the long coming of the Second Front was an old and bitter joke for most. When the allies met on the Elbe, the Russians greeted the Americans as bothers in arms.

I have always thought it a shame that that attitude did not carry over to the higher echelons. I also once posted a picture with comments to that effect. As I recall, that was the first time I was called a Commie on this forum.

I meant Russian people of today.

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Interesting part of this year's Victory Day parade in Moscow was the presence of US and British troops. Wonder what the REAL reaction in the Russian people was to this, as opposed to the one reported by lazy Western media?

I read one comment from a Russian veteran, who said he had no problem with the presence of foreigners in Red Square. "I don't know any Americans, but I was quite happy to eat their sausages at the front".

To the best of my knowledge (from personal meetings with veterans, memoirs, etc) the average Russian had nothing against the average American. They appreciated the lend lease, but the long coming of the Second Front was an old and bitter joke for most. When the allies met on the Elbe, the Russians greeted the Americans as bothers in arms.

I have always thought it a shame that that attitude did not carry over to the higher echelons. I also once posted a picture with comments to that effect. As I recall, that was the first time I was called a Commie on this forum.

Most of the "average fighting men & women" were in their 20's or younger. The higher ups were older and recalled a time period when the "Reds" and the "allies" were at bayonet point with each other. I'm sure I don't need to tell you , of all people , about the allied intervention in the Russian civil war. Less than twenty years had passed, and a great many Russian leaders were participants. Old wounds heal VERY slowly.

I never exchanged shots with Russians during the cold war (RADAR Locks yes, dirty looks yes, bullets and missiles, definately not) but even now when I hear Russian , I can't help an instinctive reactioon to turn and look at the speaker. I imagine my reaction would be even stronger had I actually been fired upon.

My point is that I'm not surprised at the reactions. It takes a VERY long time to accept old enemies as friends.


PS....Someone called you a Commie? [X(][&:]

[DuckofTindalos]

Onime, a question. The Katyusha MRL was supposedly named for a popular song. Is this true, and if so, what's the name of this song?

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Onime, a question. The Katyusha MRL was supposedly named for a popular song. Is this true, and if so, what's the name of this song?

Yep... that's true... [:)]


Leo "Apollo11"

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyusha_%28song%29


And here are the lyrics:

by M. Isakovsky


Katyusha

Apple and pear trees were a-blooming,
Mist (was) creeping on the river.
Katyusha set out on the banks,
On the steep and lofty bank.

She was walking, singing a song
About a grey steppe eagle,
About her true love,
Whose letters she was keeping.

Oh you song! Little song of a maiden,
Head for the bright sun.
And reach for the soldier on the far-away border
Along with greetings from Katyusha.

Let him remember an ordinary girl,
And hear how she sings,
Let him preserve the Motherland,
Same as Katyusha preserves their love.


Катюша

Расцветали яблони и груши,
Поплыли туманы над рекой.
Выходила на берег Катюша,
На высокий берег на крутой.

Выходила, песню заводила
Про степного, сизого орла,
Про того, которого любила,
Про того, чьи письма берегла.

Ой ты, песня, песенка девичья,
Ты лети за ясным солнцем вслед.
И бойцу на дальнем пограничье
От Катюши передай привет.

Пусть он вспомнит девушку простую,
Пусть услышит, как она поет,
Пусть он землю бережет родную,
А любовь Катюша сбережет.


Leo "Apollo11"

[JWE]

Can't say as I ever really knew them. When I had the professional hat on and went here and there, there was always some Russians about; observers, students, participants, sometimes you couldn't tell who was who without the uniform. I do speak Russian (well, I did speak Russian), and gravitated towards them folks and just wanted to gavaryu, you know?

When you learn a man's language, you learn that man's philosophy. Long story, short, I really like Slavs; would be proud to serve in a Russian Arty unit. Think that if they ever get their poopie together, they are a natural for us. Long story shorter, really, really, really like Slavs.

[thegreatwent]

Hi all,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyusha_%28song%29


And here are the lyrics:

by M. Isakovsky


Katyusha

Apple and pear trees were a-blooming,
Mist (was) creeping on the river.
Katyusha set out on the banks,
On the steep and lofty bank.

She was walking, singing a song
About a grey steppe eagle,
About her true love,
Whose letters she was keeping.

Oh you song! Little song of a maiden,
Head for the bright sun.
And reach for the soldier on the far-away border
Along with greetings from Katyusha.

Let him remember an ordinary girl,
And hear how she sings,
Let him preserve the Motherland,
Same as Katyusha preserves their love.


Катюша

Расцветали яблони и груши,
Поплыли туманы над рекой.
Выходила на берег Катюша,
На высокий берег на крутой.

Выходила, песню заводила
Про степного, сизого орла,
Про того, которого любила,
Про того, чьи письма берегла.

Ой ты, песня, песенка девичья,
Ты лети за ясным солнцем вслед.
И бойцу на дальнем пограничье
От Катюши передай привет.

Пусть он вспомнит девушку простую,
Пусть услышит, как она поет,
Пусть он землю бережет родную,
А любовь Катюша сбережет.


Leo "Apollo11"

My ex-wife used to sing that on occasion. But then she was a young pioneer[X(]

[Grollub]

Evening tithe.