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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: on November 21, 2003, 10:54:00 am

Title: Gays in the Military
Post by: on November 21, 2003, 10:54:00 am: If gays want to be 'out' in the military, shouldn't they have to prove themselves worthy, as a group, much like the Japanese-American Nisei battalion (http://www.asian-nation.org/442.shtml) did during the seige at Monte Casino (http://www.hawaiischoolreports.com/history/nisei.htm)? This blooding could give them a lot more cred with the naysayers, eh?
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: godsshoeshine on November 21, 2003, 11:54:00 am: 1) segregated battalions are silly
2) there have been plenty of gay people that have fought and died for the this country already. sure, they weren't "out", but i think they have proved themselves
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: on November 21, 2003, 11:59:00 am: What about an airborne battalion of castrating lesbian priestesses? I, for one, would run to the hills. Their unit patch could be a pink pussycat? They could lead in the hunt for Saddam and OBL?
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: markie on November 21, 2003, 12:00:00 pm: I didnt realise the Japanese Americans got to fight. sounds like they got the real choice missions.

Have you ever heard the Billy Bragg song, Everywhere.....
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: on November 21, 2003, 12:07:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by mark e smith:

Have you ever heard the Billy Bragg song, Everywhere.....
No
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: markie on November 21, 2003, 12:09:00 pm: Maybe you would like the album, dont try this at home?

BILLY BRAGG LYRICS
Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â EVERYWHERE LYRICS

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Dig in boys for an extended stay
Those were the final orders to come down that day
Waiting to be saved in the Philippines
You'll wait forever for the young Marines

Now I believe to be here is right
But I have to say that I'm scared tonight
Crouching in this hole with a mouth full of sand
What comes first
the country or the man

Look at those slanted eyes coming up over the hill
Catching us by suprise
it's time to kill or be killed

Over here
over there
it's the same everywhere
A boy cries out for his mama before he dies for his home

All my life I wanted to be
As clever and strong as my best friend Lee
We grew up together along half Moon Bay
Lee was Japanese
born in the USA

When Tommy was fighting Jerry along the River Seine
Me and Lee we wanted to do the same
Then they bombed Pearl Harbor at the break of day
I was headed for these islands when Lee was hauled away

They said look at his slanted eyes

he's guilty as guilty can be
Sent here as enemy spies to sabotage the Land of the Free

I never got home
my platoon was never saved
That little fox hole became my island grave
Lee got out of jail but a prisoner he remained
Till he ended his own life to lose that ball and chain

And they said
Oh Little Slanted Eyes
can't you forgive and forget
And he said
Oh Mr Friendly Ghost
Can you catch water in a net?
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: on November 21, 2003, 12:14:00 pm: Obviously Bragg has heard of the Nisei...
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: markie on November 21, 2003, 12:17:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
Obviously Bragg has heard of the Nisei...
I dont think so, Lee was hauled away and interned for the length of the war. It is written from the perspective of Lee's friend......

"All my life I wanted to be
As clever and strong as my best friend Lee
We grew up together along half Moon Bay
Lee was Japanese
born in the USA"

Read it again,

Master has fallen.
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: mankie on November 21, 2003, 12:19:00 pm: There wouldn't be a US Navy without homosexuals for Gods sake....or a Womens Royal Air Force for that matter.
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: on November 21, 2003, 12:39:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by mankie:
There wouldn't be a US Navy without homosexuals for Gods sake
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Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: mankie on November 21, 2003, 02:18:00 pm: I sez your doodle Navy is full of poofters...gotta problem wiv dat john?

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Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: ggw on November 21, 2003, 02:30:00 pm: Didn't Churchill describe the Royal Navy as "rum, buggery, and the lash...."
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: mankie on November 21, 2003, 03:08:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Didn't Churchill describe the Royal Navy as "rum, buggery, and the lash...."
Rum, sodomy and the lash actually.
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on November 21, 2003, 03:11:00 pm: This guy Churchill must have been a Pogues fan.
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Originally posted by mankie:

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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Didn't Churchill describe the Royal Navy as "rum, buggery, and the lash...."
Rum, sodomy and the lash actually. [/b]
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: ggw on November 21, 2003, 03:12:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by mankie:

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Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Didn't Churchill describe the Royal Navy as "rum, buggery, and the lash...."
Rum, sodomy and the lash actually. [/b]
So it's true that the motto of the Royal Navy was "Never Leave Your Buddy's Behind"
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: flawd101 on November 21, 2003, 04:57:00 pm: gays already have the cost guard and part of the navy.....CUZ THE COST GUARD IS GAY!!!!!!
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: ggw on November 21, 2003, 04:58:00 pm: http://www.costguard.com (http://www.costguard.com)
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: mankie on November 21, 2003, 05:03:00 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
[QB] This guy Churchill must have been a Pogues fan.
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Isn't everyone?
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: flawd101 on November 21, 2003, 05:06:00 pm: *coast guard.....
Title: Re: Gays in the Military
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on November 21, 2003, 05:09:00 pm: I'm not sure that my wife is. But that won't sway me. I've tended to seem to notice men have been bigger fans of the Pogues than women, but that's just from a small sample. Maybe it has to do with how ugly Shane is.

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Originally posted by mankie:

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Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
[QB] This guy Churchill must have been a Pogues fan.
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Isn't everyone? [/b]