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MdWIldcat55 said:
Great stories.

I know we have some former DI's among this group. I've only been an outside observer as a military correspondent to witness some of the more colorful "Jody Calls." I suspect those have been toned down quite a bit with so many young women in the ranks.
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I was a DI at Knox from 1966-68 and it was a different military. Trainees did not see a female for weeks and Jody was a feature in our cadence.

"I don't know but I've been told, Jody's got your girl and gone"
"Jody's got a girl dressed in red and she makes her living in a bed"

SOUND OFF: ONE TWO, SOUND OFF: THREE FOUR, BRINGING IT ON DOWN ONE TWO (pause) THREE FOUR!!

Those are the mild ones, this is a family forum so I will pass on the others.
 
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Good Sunday Morning D

We have a nice sunny day ahead and pleasant temperatures for July. It is 73° and will ease up to 85° by mid afternoon. Scattered clouds will arrive in the late afternoon giving a 40% chance of isolated thunderstorms. The UV Index is 10 out of 10. The gals on the beach love it.

Wake up time in Colorado Springs is 4:30 AM so get out of bed girl and fall in.
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Sawnee Cat said:
I was a DI at Knox from 1966-68 and it was a different military. Trainees did not see a female for weeks and Jody was a feature in our cadence.

"I don't know but I've been told, Jody's got your girl and gone"
"Jody's got a girl dressed in red and she makes her living in a bed"

SOUND OFF: ONE TWO, SOUND OFF: THREE FOUR, BRINGING IT ON DOWN ONE TWO (pause) THREE FOUR!!

Those are the mild ones, this is a family forum so I will pass on the others.
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Good stuff Sawnee. yeah, I've heard some of the not mild ones myself while covering troops at Ft. Hood or Ft. Bragg or Ft. Campbell...
 
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Good morning D-League. Happy July 3rd! Under other circumstances, maybe this would have been a holiday in that country that never was, the Confederate States of America...

This is the anniversary of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. It was probably the last day the Confederates had a plausible chance to still win the war.

Some of you may know the famous William Faulkner quote about that day when possibilities were lost. Here's the main part of it:

"For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet..."

There's an Episcopal Church in Hedgesville, West Virginia, and in the graveyard around back lies a distant cousin or uncle of mine -- a brother of a direct ancestor - and he was killed on this day in Gettysburg.
 
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Sawnee Cat said:
I was a DI at Knox from 1966-68 and it was a different military. Trainees did not see a female for weeks and Jody was a feature in our cadence.

"I don't know but I've been told, Jody's got your girl and gone"
"Jody's got a girl dressed in red and she makes her living in a bed"


SOUND OFF: ONE TWO, SOUND OFF: THREE FOUR, BRINGING IT ON DOWN ONE TWO (pause) THREE FOUR!!

Those are the mild ones, this is a family forum so I will pass on the others.
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I don't know but I believe, I'll be home by Christmas Eve.
I don't know but I heard rumors, so and so is wearing bloomers.
I don't know but it's been said, better to be dead than red.
And so on, and so on, and so on.

Your father was home when you left. You're Right!
Your mother was home when you left. You're Right!
Your brother was home when you left. You're Right!
Your sister was home when you left. You're Right!
Your girlfriend was home when you left. You're Right!
Jody was there when you left, You're right!
That's the reason you left. You're right!
Sound off! One Two!
Sound Off! Three Four!
Break it on down!
One Two Three Four, One Twooo!- THREE fOUR!
 
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Good morning from Shawanee, TN. It's abut 70°F here.

US mail truck crashed near Claiborne Co/Union Co line early this morning. I got held up for 1.5 hours, said screw it, and took a helluva shortcut to get here. @starchief5 may know the area (Sharp's Chapel). Crazy stuff.

Gonna get some sleep soon and go grocery shopping with daughter.

Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.

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Sawnee Cat said:
I was a DI at Knox from 1966-68 and it was a different military. Trainees did not see a female for weeks and Jody was a feature in our cadence.

"I don't know but I've been told, Jody's got your girl and gone"
"Jody's got a girl dressed in red and she makes her living in a bed"

SOUND OFF: ONE TWO, SOUND OFF: THREE FOUR, BRINGING IT ON DOWN ONE TWO (pause) THREE FOUR!!

Those are the mild ones, this is a family forum so I will pass on the others.
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I'm guessing they're fairly similar to the ones in Full Metal Jacket Link.

Some of my favorites were Party Hard, C-130, Hail O' Hail O' Infantry, and They say that in the Army.

 
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MdWIldcat55 said:
Good morning D-League. Happy July 3rd! Under other circumstances, maybe this would have been a holiday in that country that never was, the Confederate States of America...

This is the anniversary of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. It was probably the last day the Confederates had a plausible chance to still win the war.

Some of you may know the famous William Faulkner quote about that day when possibilities were lost. Here's the main part of it:

"For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet..."

There's an Episcopal Church in Hedgesville, West Virginia, and in the graveyard around back lies a distant cousin or uncle of mine -- a brother of a direct ancestor - and he was killed on this day in Gettysburg.
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Thank God the other circumstances never occurred.
 
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berniecarbo said:
Here's one our DI liked,

Birdie birdie in the snow
Broken wing and broken toe
Took him in and fed him bread
Then crushed his f@@@@@@ head
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Yeah, that's in the spirit of what I recall, Bernie.

I suppose that's a piece of color and history lost to our military today. Some bruised snowflake recruit would call PETA if that were said today, and the New York Times would do a five-part series on the brutality of it all.
 
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vhcat70 said:
Thank God the other circumstances never occurred.
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The Civil war was bad for families in this area. My great grandfather's two brothers lived in what was then called Elko, KY (in Mammoth Cave National Park). They left the same day for the Civil War. One went to Nashville to join the CSA and one went to Owensboro to join the Union. John Jack (the Union guy) told his brother that the next time "I will see you will be over the barrel of a gun". They survived the war and came back home and built houses next to each other. They just did not discuss the war.

My second great grandfather, David M.C. Edwards joined the 6th Reg. CSA and fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Chickamauga, Atlanta and Savannah. Late in the war he was wounded so badly that the Union forces sent him to Owensboro via barge and released him to his family. After the war he found life as a Confederate soldier too hard in Kentucky, so he told his wife he was going to Utah to get a place and he would send for her. He never was heard from again and there are no records that he ever got to Utah.

Two thirds of Kentuckians joined the Union; however, after the war Kentucky was treated like we had succeeded. One of my Union ancestors came home to fine that the Union Army had burned his house, stole all the stock and left his family destitute and depending on others for food and housing. Plus there are some horrible stories during the war of the Union forces taking people away and no one ever hearing from them again.

Please don't take my word for it:

17. Another reign of terror. - In 1864 the deeds of cruelty and outrage on the part of some Federal officers elevated to power in Kentucky produced a terror among the people equal to that caused by the raiding guerrillas. Chief among the men who were guilty of these inhuman deeds were generals high in official authority and in command both in East and West Kentucky. Under orders of these, many prisoners, without trial, were taken out of their prison-houses, led away and shot to death by squads of soldiers. Many peaceful citizens were arrested and cast into prison, and heavy sums of money extorted from some of them under military duress. The pretexts for these acts were usually alleged to be retaliation for the outrages of the guerrillas. Often the innocent suffered.

This is from "History of Kentucky" 1891. They will not tell you stuff like that today, it reflect poorly on the victors.
 
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Bert Higginbotha said:
The Civil war was bad for families in this area. My great grandfather's two brothers lived in what was then called Elko, KY (in Mammoth Cave National Park). They left the same day for the Civil War. One went to Nashville to join the CSA and one went to Owensboro to join the Union. John Jack (the Union guy) told his brother that the next time "I will see you will be over the barrel of a gun". They survived the war and came back home and built houses next to each other. They just did not discuss the war.

My second great grandfather, David M.C. Edwards joined the 6th Reg. CSA and fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Chickamauga, Atlanta and Savannah. Late in the war he was wounded so badly that the Union forces sent him to Owensboro via barge and released him to his family. After the war he found life as a Confederate soldier too hard in Kentucky, so he told his wife he was going to Utah to get a place and he would send for her. He never was heard from again and there are no records that he ever got to Utah.

Two thirds of Kentuckians joined the Union; however, after the war Kentucky was treated like we had succeeded. One of my Union ancestors came home to fine that the Union Army had burned his house, stole all the stock and left his family destitute and depending on others for food and housing. Plus there are some horrible stories during the war of the Union forces taking people away and no one ever hearing from them again.

Please don't take my word for it:

17. Another reign of terror. - In 1864 the deeds of cruelty and outrage on the part of some Federal officers elevated to power in Kentucky produced a terror among the people equal to that caused by the raiding guerrillas. Chief among the men who were guilty of these inhuman deeds were generals high in official authority and in command both in East and West Kentucky. Under orders of these, many prisoners, without trial, were taken out of their prison-houses, led away and shot to death by squads of soldiers. Many peaceful citizens were arrested and cast into prison, and heavy sums of money extorted from some of them under military duress. The pretexts for these acts were usually alleged to be retaliation for the outrages of the guerrillas. Often the innocent suffered.

This is from "History of Kentucky" 1891. They will not tell you stuff like that today, it reflect poorly on the victors.
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Great stories. My ancestors fought for the south with Kentucky and Virginia brigades. And one was involved in an episode that fits with your stuff Bert and Bernie.

When I was about 23 I worked for awhile at the National Archives. While there I researched as well as I could some of my family in the Civil War. I found one record from the Military Authorities occupying Kentucky that noted the arrest in November, 1864 of a man with the same name as my great great grandfather - Joseph Hedges. Apparently somebody snitched on him for showing up outside the polling place in Bracken County and yelling ‘G..D…Abraham Lincoln’ as they put it in the military court proceedings. He was rounded up by Union cavalry and thrown in jail without trial until the war ended the next spring.
 
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berniecarbo said:
www.findagrave.com

Henry Bascom Hicks (1846-1864) - Find a Grave...

18 Year old citizen of Mayfield, Ky. who was executed by General A.E. Payne for refusing to join the Union Army. The inscription on the marker reads: To the memory of Henry Bascomb Hicks Who was shot by order of the Federal Tyrant A E Payne on the streets of Mayfield, Ky. August 24, 1864. He was...
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Thanks. I helps to re-enforces my post.

The South was not the only bad guys in the war.
 
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Bert Higginbotha said:
The Civil war was bad for families in this area. My great grandfather's two brothers lived in what was then called Elko, KY (in Mammoth Cave National Park). They left the same day for the Civil War. One went to Nashville to join the CSA and one went to Owensboro to join the Union. John Jack (the Union guy) told his brother that the next time "I will see you will be over the barrel of a gun". They survived the war and came back home and built houses next to each other. They just did not discuss the war.

My second great grandfather, David M.C. Edwards joined the 6th Reg. CSA and fought at Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Chickamauga, Atlanta and Savannah. Late in the war he was wounded so badly that the Union forces sent him to Owensboro via barge and released him to his family. After the war he found life as a Confederate soldier too hard in Kentucky, so he told his wife he was going to Utah to get a place and he would send for her. He never was heard from again and there are no records that he ever got to Utah.

Two thirds of Kentuckians joined the Union; however, after the war Kentucky was treated like we had succeeded. One of my Union ancestors came home to fine that the Union Army had burned his house, stole all the stock and left his family destitute and depending on others for food and housing. Plus there are some horrible stories during the war of the Union forces taking people away and no one ever hearing from them again.

Please don't take my word for it:

17. Another reign of terror. - In 1864 the deeds of cruelty and outrage on the part of some Federal officers elevated to power in Kentucky produced a terror among the people equal to that caused by the raiding guerrillas. Chief among the men who were guilty of these inhuman deeds were generals high in official authority and in command both in East and West Kentucky. Under orders of these, many prisoners, without trial, were taken out of their prison-houses, led away and shot to death by squads of soldiers. Many peaceful citizens were arrested and cast into prison, and heavy sums of money extorted from some of them under military duress. The pretexts for these acts were usually alleged to be retaliation for the outrages of the guerrillas. Often the innocent suffered.

This is from "History of Kentucky" 1891. They will not tell you stuff like that today, it reflect poorly on the victors.
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Yes, I've seen you write about these subjects before. Not at all good.

Don't know why you quoted my post for it though. I stand by wanting the outcome of July 3 1863 to be as it was. I lost a Union volunteer gr-gr-father in battle in VA in 1864 a month before his 3 years enlistment was up.
 
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vhcat70 said:
Yes, I've seen you write about these subjects before. Not at all good.

Don't know why you quoted my post for it though. I stand by wanting the outcome of July 3 1863 to be as it was. I lost a Union volunteer gr-gr-father in battle in VA in 1864 a month before his 3 years enlistment was up.
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I wrote about it because my families paid the price on both sides of the conflict.

Because my family was on both sides we paid the ultimate price. No matter what side you were on: did you lose?

These subjects are BIG because it ruined my families economic lives. We paid the ultimate price.

Do you not understand? Where in hell do you come from?
 
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Bert Higginbotha said:
I wrote about it because my families paid the price on both sides of the conflict.

Because my family was on both sides we paid the ultimate price. No matter what side you were on: did you lose?

These subjects are BIG because it ruined my families economic lives. We paid the ultimate price.

Do you not understand? Where in hell do you come from?
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I'm fine with what you wrote. I said what happened to your family afterwards was not good. What else should I have said? What is the proper response for you?

I just, and still don't, understand why you quoted me for being glad the Confeds lost at Gettysburg. I should wish that outcome was the opposite?

I'm totally lost at why you're upset with me.
 
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Good morning D-League. Happy 4th. It's a beautiful morning in the east.

Here's to the generation that started the Revolution, including my great-great (etc.) grandfather Joseph Hedges, then of Frederick, Maryland: "During the steady progression from discontent of a colony to the freedom and independence of a nation, with splendid patriotism he renounced' his allegiance to George III. and served his country from September, 1777, to December, 1780, in the companies of Captains Ward and Comb, Regiment of Foot, Continental Troops, commanded by Colonel Oliver Spencer. After the Revolutionary war, in common with many of the settlers on the Atlantic coast, he determined to emigrate to the wilderness of Kentucky..." from a book about the early settlers of Kentucky.
 
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TheFrontRunner said:
The first avatar for woodford was Pittsburgh pirates old player just like baller, look at how he acts when anyone disagrees with him in the golf thread or the johnny depp thread he started...exactly same behavior, exact silly insults. I almost never get on rafters, saw a couple posters early on too call him out as Baller as well but I already knew. Dude has had at least a dozen accounts I bet. In the political board he was trying to act different than before, get along instead of arguing with long time posters. Sorry to interrupt the D-league, just wanted to let my brother Austin know.
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That’s a complete and utter lie. Why in the world would you make that up? Maybe confused me? Copy a moderator if I’ve had any avatar but this one. Not cool. PS, Pirates? Not a fan. Who is?
 
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vhcat70 said:
I'm fine with what you wrote. I said what happened to your family afterwards was not good. What else should I have said? What is the proper response for you?

I just, and still don't, understand why you quoted me for being glad the Confeds lost at Gettysburg. I should wish that outcome was the opposite?

I'm totally lost at why you're upset with me.
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I am not unset with you, just trying to make my point.
 
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Took a little stroll to pay respects at the grave of one of the Revolutionary War patriots buried about a half a mile from my house in a little plot surrounded by a fence:

Gen. Jeremiah Crabb. The little town where I live dates back to those days, and there are some old houses though my cul-de-sac is 1980s vintage.

Here's his story.

Jeremiah Crabb - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

www.findagrave.com

Gen Jeremiah Crabb (1760-1800) - Find a Grave...

General Crabb, the son of Henry Wright Crabb was born in Maryland in 1760, and served in the Revolutionary War as a 2nd lieutenant in the First Maryland Regiment. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant on December 15, 1777, serving well until forced to resign because of poor health brought about by...
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Good morning and Happy 4th of July from Shawnee, TN. We're already at 81°F with partly cloudy skies. Expecting 89°F for our high.

Man, this trip out here flat wore me out. Worst part was waiting at the roadblock on Claiborne/Union County line near the end. Spent 21 hours on the road for what normally equals a 17-hour journey. Key take-way: Screw saving $70 and leave earlier next time. Lesson learned.

Went over to Middlesboro with my daughter yesterday. Visited a few folks. Shopped for groceries. We plan on grilling out late this afternoon.

Happy Independence Day. Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.

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I am two hours into smoking baby back ribs. What a pain in the butt! But it is July 4th so what are you supposed to do?

The dry rub was hard. I had forgotten to clean the smoker, so I have delayed the meal for two hours as I tried to clean up last fall's mess, GEEZE.

I will blame it on someone other than myself, but I know the culprit. (His name is Bert!)

I hope all of my good friends on the D-League are having a great Fourth of July. I pray for my buddy Don, who started this thread 4,561 pages ago. I hope and pray that we get him back. That is a selfish wish, but that is me.

Also, I want Ymmot to come back and start being a daily "asshole" on the D-League. I love that worthless dude.

In four days I will get to see Austin.
 
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Bert Higginbotha said:
I am two hours into smoking baby back ribs. What a pain in the butt! But it is July 4th so what are you supposed to do?

The dry rub was hard. I had forgotten to clean the smoker, so I have delayed the meal for two hours as I tried to clean up last fall's mess, GEEZE.

I will blame it on someone other than myself, but I know the culprit. (His name is Bert!)

I hope all of my good friends on the D-League are having a great Fourth of July. I pray for my buddy Don, who started this thread 4,561 pages ago. I hope and pray that we get him back. That is a selfish wish, but that is me.

Also, I want Ymmot to come back and start being a daily "asshole" on the D-League. I love that worthless dude.

In four days I will get to see Austin.
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Yep, I second bringing Ymmot back.
 
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I received this nice note from a very good friend who lives in Scotland. He was a huge help in my tracing of ancestors on my dad's side because he lives where my family first started and the church graveyards are full of them. He lives in SW Scotland about 15 miles across from Ireland. He has a great sense of humor. Come to think of it they were considered to be committing treason.

Bring back BBUK and Ymmot

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