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Old January 12th, 2013, 02:53 PM posted to soc.retirement,alt.politics.socialism,alt.politics.socialism.trotsky,alt.horror,rec.travel.europe
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Dangerous Old Men

January 12, 2013

"Everybody knows a Walt Kowalski. He is the grizzled Korean War
veteran Clint Eastwood played in the movie Gran Torino. A man who
spends his days sitting on the porch, keeping his house and yard
immaculate, satisfied to drink his cheap beer while watching his
neighborhood and country go to hell around him. He is an anachronism,
a dinosaur -- part of the old America where you worked hard, took
pride in your work and where you lived, and fought for your country
and what it stood for when called upon. Armed with his M1 Garand
rifle and 1911 .45 pistol he brought back from the war, he put new
meaning in "Get off my lawn."....

As anyone who has seen the movie knows, Kowalski is recently widowed
and terminally ill. He does not have much to live for until he
befriends his young Hmong neighbors. After teaching them what honor
and self-reliance are, he eventually gives his life for them

Fewer have heard of ...

Let us look back at..... , an old man -- seventy-eight years old,

There is also...

....There are over twenty-five million veterans in the United States --
among them many Walt Kowalskis -- and most of them are gun owners.
Some of them remember the horrors of the concentration camps and of
communism. Others are from the Vietnam era and remember what awaited
them when they came home. They see John Kerry, the same man who threw
his medals over the White House fence and was photographed with Jane
Fonda and the North Vietnamese, nominated as secretary of state.....


....there are also many younger combat veterans, many from a lineage of
soldiers. They know that old people can be stubborn, and "the
government threw grandpa in jail because he didn't turn in his guns"
will not go over well....."

google any part if you want to read more
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Old January 12th, 2013, 05:52 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:53:13 -0800 (PST), ¿¨¾'´ÞÝÞÒÐÝ wrote:

Dangerous Old Men

January 12, 2013

"Everybody knows a Walt Kowalski. He is the grizzled Korean War
veteran Clint Eastwood played in the movie Gran Torino.


Talking to the empty chair lost Mittens the election.
bn.
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Old January 12th, 2013, 08:42 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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On 2013-01-12 16:52:42 +0000, Irwell said:

On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:53:13 -0800 (PST), ПЈО'Донован wrote:

Dangerous Old Men

January 12, 2013

"Everybody knows a Walt Kowalski. He is the grizzled Korean War
veteran Clint Eastwood played in the movie Gran Torino.


Talking to the empty chair lost Mittens the election.


That was an easy analysis.
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Old January 12th, 2013, 10:09 PM posted to rec.travel.europe
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Irwell wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:53:13 -0800 (PST), ¿¨¾'´ÞÝÞÒÐÝ wrote:

Dangerous Old Men

January 12, 2013

"Everybody knows a Walt Kowalski. He is the grizzled Korean War
veteran Clint Eastwood played in the movie Gran Torino.


Talking to the empty chair lost Mittens the election.
bn.


For which all USAians have cause to be grateful!!!! (;-)
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Old January 13th, 2013, 10:20 PM posted to soc.retirement,alt.politics.socialism,alt.politics.socialism.trotsky,alt.horror,rec.travel.europe
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Imagine donovan at 84 with a gun in his shaking hands...


"ПЈО'Донован" a écrit dans le message de groupe de
discussion :
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Dangerous Old Men

January 12, 2013

"Everybody knows a Walt Kowalski. He is the grizzled Korean War
veteran Clint Eastwood played in the movie Gran Torino. A man who
spends his days sitting on the porch, keeping his house and yard
immaculate, satisfied to drink his cheap beer while watching his
neighborhood and country go to hell around him. He is an anachronism,
a dinosaur -- part of the old America where you worked hard, took
pride in your work and where you lived, and fought for your country
and what it stood for when called upon. Armed with his M1 Garand
rifle and 1911 .45 pistol he brought back from the war, he put new
meaning in "Get off my lawn."....

As anyone who has seen the movie knows, Kowalski is recently widowed
and terminally ill. He does not have much to live for until he
befriends his young Hmong neighbors. After teaching them what honor
and self-reliance are, he eventually gives his life for them

Fewer have heard of ...

Let us look back at..... , an old man -- seventy-eight years old,

There is also...

...There are over twenty-five million veterans in the United States --
among them many Walt Kowalskis -- and most of them are gun owners.
Some of them remember the horrors of the concentration camps and of
communism. Others are from the Vietnam era and remember what awaited
them when they came home. They see John Kerry, the same man who threw
his medals over the White House fence and was photographed with Jane
Fonda and the North Vietnamese, nominated as secretary of state.....


...there are also many younger combat veterans, many from a lineage of
soldiers. They know that old people can be stubborn, and "the
government threw grandpa in jail because he didn't turn in his guns"
will not go over well....."

google any part if you want to read more


 




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