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2009/10/25 06:24:18
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Executing Exarch
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The article is self explanatory...He is the most amazing soldier of all time...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill
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DR:80+S(GT)G++M++B-I++Pwmhd05#+D+++A+++/sWD-R++T(Ot)DM+
How is it they live in such harmony - the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Warhammer 40K:
 Alpha Legion - 15,000 pts For the Emperor!
 WAAAGH! Skullhooka - 14,000 pts
 Biel Tan Strikeforce - 11,000 pts
"The Eldar get no attention because the average male does not like confetti blasters, shimmer shields or sparkle lasers."
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2009/10/25 06:26:02
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Boosting Black Templar Biker
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You're mistaken, the two greatest soldiers of all time were Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart.
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2009/10/25 06:28:51
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Executing Exarch
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Why do you lie?
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DR:80+S(GT)G++M++B-I++Pwmhd05#+D+++A+++/sWD-R++T(Ot)DM+
How is it they live in such harmony - the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Warhammer 40K:
Alpha Legion - 15,000 pts For the Emperor!
WAAAGH! Skullhooka - 14,000 pts
Biel Tan Strikeforce - 11,000 pts
"The Eldar get no attention because the average male does not like confetti blasters, shimmer shields or sparkle lasers."
-Illeix |
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2009/10/25 06:32:06
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Boosting Black Templar Biker
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I speak naught but the truth.
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2009/10/25 08:18:02
Subject: Re:Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
Cozy cockpit of an Archer ARC-5S
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Eh, those two aren't that special.
Audie Murphy on the other hand!
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Fatum Iustum Stultorum
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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2009/10/25 12:38:05
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Rampaging Furioso Blood Angel Dreadnought
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I doubt highly the bestest soldiery badass of all time. BUT, he's a badder man than I would care to tangle with.
And leading a charge with a claymore in WWII? He's lucky he survived, or he would instead be remembered as a friggin moron. But in any case, I see him as being just awesome.
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2009/10/25 13:28:43
Subject: Re:Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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You forgot this guy...
Although I agree, Audie was badder (or at least, crazier). Well Audie was recognized as such. Chesty was hard-as-nails nasty.
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2009/10/25 17:46:37
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Incorporating Wet-Blending
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Mannahnin wrote:A lot of folks online (and in emails in other parts of life) use pretty mangled English. The idea is that it takes extra effort and time to write properly, and they’d rather save the time. If you can still be understood, what’s the harm? While most of the time a sloppy post CAN be understood, the use of proper grammar, punctuation, and spelling is generally seen as respectable and desirable on most forums. It demonstrates an effort made to be understood, and to make your post an easy and pleasant read. By making this effort, you can often elicit more positive responses from the community, and instantly mark yourself as someone worth talking to.
insaniak wrote: Every time someone threatens violence over the internet as a result of someone's hypothetical actions at the gaming table, the earth shakes infinitisemally in its orbit as millions of eyeballs behind millions of monitors all roll simultaneously.
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2009/10/25 18:25:32
Subject: Re:Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
Cozy cockpit of an Archer ARC-5S
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Cracked is a site full of witches who can't research for gak.
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Fatum Iustum Stultorum
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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2009/10/25 19:51:31
Subject: Re:Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Boosting Black Templar Biker
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BrookM wrote:Eh, those two aren't that special.
Hey BrookM, I am really happy for you to like Audie Murphy, and Imma let you get back to posting pictures of him in a minute, but I just wanted to say Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart are the best soldiers of all time....of all time.
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2009/10/25 20:49:01
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Dwarf High King with New Book of Grudges
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Who was the dude that basically founded the marine snipers? I can't remember his name, but he fought in Vietnam.
Edit: Carlos Hathcock. Bonus points for looking like R. Lee Ermy.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. |
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2009/10/25 21:27:51
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Boosting Black Templar Biker
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Sweet Madre de Dios, he does look like Señor Ermy.
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2009/10/25 21:51:55
Subject: Re:Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Regular Dakkanaut
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Frak year!
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As if on cue, you hear two people singing from the stairwell, and the door is opened and a pair of very smelly, very dirty guardsmen stumble in, completely drunk, and covered in vomit, and immediately collapse unconsious on the porch. You drag them to their beds, realising that they will not be waking up for some time.  |
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2009/10/25 21:52:17
Subject: Re:Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CAN I BE IN CHARGE FOR A WHILE?
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2009/10/26 00:00:28
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Executing Exarch
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...He took a claymore and a longbow to war...that is more bad ass than a wimpy gun...
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DR:80+S(GT)G++M++B-I++Pwmhd05#+D+++A+++/sWD-R++T(Ot)DM+
How is it they live in such harmony - the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Warhammer 40K:
Alpha Legion - 15,000 pts For the Emperor!
WAAAGH! Skullhooka - 14,000 pts
Biel Tan Strikeforce - 11,000 pts
"The Eldar get no attention because the average male does not like confetti blasters, shimmer shields or sparkle lasers."
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2009/10/26 00:16:57
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Fixture of Dakka
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Hahaha! What a fething maniac! Brilliant!
All the Scot's regiments in WWI fought in kilts, too - what a mad fething war!
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I almost always agree with Albatross, I can't see why anyone wouldn't.
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2009/10/26 01:22:24
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Dwarf High King with New Book of Grudges
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JEB_Stuart wrote:...He took a claymore and a longbow to war...that is more bad ass than a wimpy gun...
But, was he bald and screaming?
Also, I've not heard of this man before, but 109 confirmed sniper kills?
wiki wrote:SSG Adelbert F. Waldron, or Adelbert F. Waldron III, (March 14, 1933 – October 18, 1995) was a United States Army sniper serving during the Vietnam War (9th Infantry Div.) who is little known, but who currently holds the record for the highest number of confirmed kills for any American sniper in history; 109.[1] The legendary Carlos Hathcock had 93 confirmed kills, Eric R. England had 98 and Chuck Mawhinney had 103—all were members of the US Marine Corps. However, despite Hathcock and Mawhinney being fairly well known, Waldron and England are all but unheard of. Waldron also was one of the few two time recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross, both awarded for separate actions in 1969. He is buried in Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California, Columbarium A (shelter F), Court B, Row B, Site 37.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. |
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2009/10/26 04:12:02
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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dogma wrote:Also, I've not heard of this man before, but 109 confirmed sniper kills?
Bah, it has to be Simo Hayha for the win.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Hayha
The guy had 505 confirmed sniper kills, around 200 more with a submachine gun, for a total in excess of 700 kills. And he did it in less than 100 days of fighting during the Winter War.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2009/10/26 04:39:32
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Boosting Black Templar Biker
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Everyone knows the USSR fudged the numbers to be awesome. Its why their economy collapsed.
Bam, History Lesson in two sentences.
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2009/10/26 04:43:40
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Da Head Honcho Boss Grot
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Why would the USSR inflate the number of their people killed?  It would make them look worse.
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2009/10/26 04:49:00
Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
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2009/10/26 04:52:38
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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Marshal2Crusaders wrote:Everyone knows the USSR fudged the numbers to be awesome. Its why their economy collapsed.
Bam, History Lesson in two sentences.
Hayha was Finnish and was shooting Russians. Bam history lesson in one sentence.
There are actually a couple of snipers that are claimed to have more kills, but they're discredited because their claims emerged long after the fighting, and are Russian and therefore pretty dodgy.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2009/10/26 08:03:17
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Boosting Black Templar Biker
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Oh feth, I am a tool. Who has two thumbs and is a fething idiot? This guy!
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2009/10/26 08:39:05
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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Marshal2Crusaders wrote:Oh feth, I am a tool. Who has two thumbs and is a fething idiot? This guy!
 Happens to everyone.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2009/10/26 10:37:54
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Wrathful Warlord Titan Commander
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JEB_Stuart wrote:...He took a claymore and a longbow to war...that is more bad ass than a wimpy gun...
Not a bad choice given that the Webley Revolver was Standard Issue to British Officers at the time. The Wembley was said at the time to be " capable of pentrating tin from 10 yards, but that was about it" Damm pop gun, pass the sword laddie!
I would also profer this gentleman as being rather handy. He was known to have faced down a Panzer kneeling in front of it repeatedly firing a PIAT at the bugger and was to be seen running arround Arnhem at a later stage firing a 2" mortar from the hip, an action bizarre enough to be mentioned in German reports!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henry_Cain He was also Jeremy Clarksons farther-in-law who later did a very interesting documentry on him and Victoria Cross recipients.
Also don't for get Cnl. Richard Sharpe of the South Essex bloody fine fellow (for a ranker!) 
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2009/10/26 11:09:10
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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Wars do not make one great.
Any soldier that does his/her part, risks all to keep us free, they are great.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2009/10/26 11:13:13
Subject: Re:Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Highlord with a Blackstone Fortress
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Another vote for Major Cain, someone who hipshoots a mortar for real makes Chuck Norris and other 'heroes' look like wimps.
However there are some Gurkha VC citations, and the Aussie one from Vietnam which sound just as impressive. Then you get to Wittmann's Death Ride and you have to begin again, we tend to forget what the Germans got up to except the bad stuff, but some of their heroes racked up stupidly high kill tallies, and not just with a sniper rifle. But its not the kill tallies, its the moves that count, which is why I would have to go with Wittmann.
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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.
It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. |
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2009/10/26 18:24:42
Subject: Re:Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Excellent Exalted Champion of Chaos
Grim Forgotten Nihilist Forest.
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My vote is for Hitler. He survived a gas attack and looking straight into the eyes of Britains one man firing sqaud. Forget the fellows name. Then comes back to attack his enemy. That is pretty hardcore.
Or anyone that survived WW1, That was a awfull war between the life those men lived in the trenches and getting gassed/shelled to hell.
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This message was edited 3 times. Last update was at 2009/10/26 18:33:30
I've sold so many armies. :(
Aeldari 3kpts  
Slaves to Darkness.3k  
Word Bearers 2500k  
Daemons of Chaos  
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2009/10/26 18:27:48
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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Dear god you can't be serious.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2009/10/26 18:32:47
Subject: Re:Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Excellent Exalted Champion of Chaos
Grim Forgotten Nihilist Forest.
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I do have a point, but I can see why you disagree with my Idea Frazzled.
I mean the man did survive a gas attack. So did my great grandpa actually, he lost a lung in WW1 and knew just enough German to ask for help.
*He was in the Canadian Army of cource*
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2009/10/26 18:35:17
I've sold so many armies. :(
Aeldari 3kpts
Slaves to Darkness.3k
Word Bearers 2500k
Daemons of Chaos
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2009/10/26 18:37:39
Subject: Most Amazing Soldier Ever...
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Da Head Honcho Boss Grot
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I'm sure Hitler did a fine job in WW1, but a war hero that does not make, much less the "Most Amazing Soldier Ever".
In fact, it doesn't even make him the "Most Amazing Soldier Who Later Became a Dictator That Killed Tens of Millions", because Mao beats him.
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Anuvver fing - when they do sumfing, they try to make it look like somfink else to confuse everybody. When one of them wants to lord it over the uvvers, 'e says "I'm very speshul so'z you gotta worship me", or "I know summink wot you lot don't know, so yer better lissen good". Da funny fing is, arf of 'em believe it and da over arf don't, so 'e 'as to hit 'em all anyway or run fer it.
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