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Title: Honor guard rallies crowd to Ark. veteran’s burial Mourners pay respects to warrior
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URL Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news ... -crowd-to-ark-veterans-burial/
Published: Mar 6, 2011
Author: unk
Post Date: 2011-03-07 17:37:48 by Mad Dog
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SHERWOOD, Ark. | More than 300 people showed up for the funeral of an airman most of them didn’t know Friday, drawn to the cemetery after members of an honor guard feared no one would show up to attend the burial of a veteran thought to be homeless and without a family. Leroy Earl Brumbaugh died two weeks ago at age 74, but until his relatives contacted the funeral home sometime last week, it appeared the only ones planning to attend Friday’s graveside service at the Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery were veterans, active members of the Army and Air Force and a patriotic group of motorcycle riders. “We don’t know what his circumstances were in life or how he ended up where he was, but it’s the same as someone killed in Afghanistan,” said Mark Taylor, a former captain of the Arkansas Patriot Guard Riders who still rides with the group. “We are strangers to them, and they are strangers to us, but for that one day, we’re brothers.” Jim Bradburn, funeral director of the Little Rock Funeral Home, said he had not been able to contact anyone who knew Mr. Brumbaugh, not even family. “Nobody had any numbers on the family, and the numbers they did have were disconnected,” he said. U.S. Air Force honor guard members carry a casket containing the remains of Vietnam veteran Leroy Earl Brumbaugh at Arkansas Veterans Cemetery in North Little Rock, Ark., on Friday. Hundreds of people attended his funeral. Mr. Brumbaugh served 20 years in the Air Force. (Associated Press) As it turns out, Mr. Brumbaugh did have a family, and they had heard about the airman’s death about a week after he died — reaching out to a bartender after not hearing from him for a while. “I would call him every week, and two weeks ago he wasn’t there,” said Mr. Brumbaugh’s daughter, Tina. “So last week I called the bar he used to always go to and they told me the news.” By the time the family made arrangements to travel from south Arkansas to Sherwood for the service, veterans groups had used a chain of e-mails to help the honor guard line up veterans from the Army and Air Force to attend. Mr. Bradburn said a family’s late discovery of a pending funeral is not that unusual, but that Friday’s service was by far its largest for a relatively unknown veteran. “I think a large part of why so many people came out was because they were honoring a soldier who had put 20 years in and felt it was the right thing to do,” he said. Bob Oldham, chief of public affairs at the Little Rock Air Force Base, said anyone who served in the military would agree that a veteran should never be buried without their comrades present, even if they were never acquainted. “You always want to see one of the nation’s warriors surrounded by friends,” he said. “If you’re wearing a uniform, you’re a friend.” Mr. Brumbaugh’s family said he had served 20 years in the Air Force as a flight simulator technician. He served during Vietnam and traveled briefly overseas to Japan. He exited honorably from service as a tech sergeant in 1975. He had been living most recently with a friend in Hot Springs. “He was a very kindhearted individual,” said his ex-wife, Gladys Popso. “He was the biggest jokester you’d ever met.” The funeral attracted the Arkansas Patriot Guard Riders, which attends funeral services of fallen veterans at the request of the veteran’s family and shields mourning families from protesters during a ceremony, if needed. The U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to bar members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church from protesting outside military funerals, but the Riders weren’t needed Friday as a shield as only mourners gathered.
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#1. To: little man, All (#0)
You can be sure that little "man" did NOT attend this man's funeral. (little "man" wouldn't waste his time on some AIR FORCE member! It's not like he was an actual "warrior" in little "man's" "mind".) In fact, showing respect and honor to this AIR FORCE veteran makes the little "man" "angry". Did this man "steal" his valor little "man"? You are vile low life TRASH you little pissant chickenhawk poseur. I piss on you little "man".
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
. Not a word from you so called "patriots". Of course most of you libTURD filth, (and WE ALL know who YOU are), are just absolute FRAUDS.
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Mad Dog resting in the Wisconsin Capitol after a hard day servicing Republican Wisconsin State Legislators in their private rest room.
Hey, you want to fuck with me in mail. sport; I'll haunt you here. ;-D
. Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
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. Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because as he just admitted, he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
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Heh, I raced bicycles and everyone wore spandex. I'll just love to see you go to a criterium Start/Finish line and go into one of your "Faggot Spandex father fucker" diarrhea of the mouth rants to the dozens of competative, cut throat, muscular bicycle racers waiting to start the race. Hey, if they allowed snuff films, I'd tape that and post it on You Tube. ;-D Nah, I'll let yout doggie owner bag your 'messes." Besides, what are you complaining about? I mean, it was you who asked where I was given the CIB and I merely answered you. That is hardly a boast. ;-D . Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
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. No it's not a "boast" faggot mikey it's a flat out LIE. SOP, (that means "standard operating procedure"), for YOU faggot. Gee a picture of a CIB! That really PROVES alot faggot. Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
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You know what was the interesting thing about that award was I was somewhat annoyed by it. I mean, they gave the combat patch and CIBs for only two stinking months in country for a very small war. I was one of several in my unit who criticized them lowering the time lenght standard for such awards. I was so late in getting my BDUs redone with the new patchs I had the Unit's Sergeant Major dogging me. I actually liked my CIB better. I had to study and practice for the testing for this, and flunked it the first time because the standards are unforgiving, and at that time most of my time in service had been in a support unit working on and crewing a UH-1H helicopter. Had I done a year in country in Vietnam or Iraq, I would feel better about that award. So criticize away. I agree, it was dumb giving us Panama vets this award just to create combat vets walking around with these awards. Something that in this time before Gulf War one was a rare sight indeed. ;-D
YAWN ... the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! . No it's not a "boast" faggot mikey it's a flat out LIE. SOP, (that means "standard operating procedure"), for YOU faggot. Gee a picture of a CIB! That really PROVES alot faggot. Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
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I also had been in country a while doing pre-invasion work, so I never got the gold star in the risers of my jump wongs like those who jumped into tht conflict did. Now, that would of been a real feather in my cap; to get an award for doing a rare combat airborne operation. U.S. Army jump wings from a WW II paratrooper denoting three combat parachute jumps. The star on top denotes having been through jumpmaster school successfully.
YAWN ... the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! . No it's not a "boast" faggot mikey it's a flat out LIE. SOP, (that means "standard operating procedure"), for YOU faggot. Gee a picture of a CIB! That really PROVES alot faggot. Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
I used to look better when I raced and couldn't fit my muscular legs in Levi 501s with my waist size, but yes indeed, I still look studly when I dress to go out on a morning ride around Eugene, OR. ;-D
And FUBAR is all about your life M. Doggie Dawg, so?
Here ya go Doggie, the documentation of that award. ;-D
Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? Otherwise ... YAWN ... the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! . No it's not a "boast" faggot mikey it's a flat out LIE. SOP, (that means "standard operating procedure"), for YOU faggot. Gee a picture of a CIB! That really PROVES alot faggot. Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex. Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? Otherwise ... YAWN ... the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! . No it's not a "boast" faggot mikey it's a flat out LIE. SOP, (that means "standard operating procedure"), for YOU faggot. Gee a picture of a CIB! That really PROVES alot faggot. Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
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You mean, 'a lot.' It does help indeed to post a pictur,e Dawg. When one posts in a forum, ne must be mindful not everyone understands military jargon. The picture was for them, not you. ;-D
ROTFLMAOAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Proof"? LMAO!!!!!!!!!! Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? Otherwise ... YAWN ... the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! . No it's not a "boast" faggot mikey it's a flat out LIE. SOP, (that means "standard operating procedure"), for YOU faggot. Gee a picture of a CIB! That really PROVES alot faggot. Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
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Heehee, this is great, I have you spinning like a top.
That's why I explained "SOP" to you faggot. Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? Otherwise ... YAWN ... the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! . No it's not a "boast" faggot mikey it's a flat out LIE. SOP, (that means "standard operating procedure"), for YOU faggot. Gee a picture of a CIB! That really PROVES alot faggot. Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
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YOU explained SOP to me? Not hardly. You don't even know how to write a proper OP order buddy, so be careful about writing a check with your mouth your ass can't cover. ;-D
. I'm REALLY enjoying showing what a dishonorable LYING libTURD creep you are cornflake gurl! Even the slack jawed drooling libTURDS might be able to see what a foul fraud you are faggot. But the libTURDS at DU sure don't think much of you LIAR. LOL! THAT'S really got to sting, when DU thinks that you are a LYING faggot creep you've got a real problem, well IF you are a craven LYING libTURD like you are faggot. Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? Otherwise ... YAWN ... the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! . Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
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Question: what does 'SALUTE' stand for when writing a SPOT report in the proper format? This is a simple one any 11B (MOS) can tell you from what they learned at Benning while in Infantry AIT. Well?
You know, Infantry, often called the "Queen of Battle?" The MOS whos's motto is "Follow me."
What you going to do about it faggot? TALK me to death? I'm REALLY enjoying showing what a dishonorable LYING libTURD creep you are cornflake gurl! Even the slack jawed drooling libTURDS might be able to see what a foul fraud you are faggot. But the libTURDS at DU sure don't think much of you LIAR. LOL! THAT'S really got to sting, when DU thinks that you are a LYING faggot creep you've got a real problem, well IF you are a craven LYING libTURD like you are faggot. Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? Otherwise ... YAWN ... the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! . Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
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I think this thread has a scratch in it. Here let me lift the needle.
SALUTE = size, activity, location, unit, time, equipment These are all the requisite information required to forward in a SPOT report, which is information that helps command know important information about aspects of the OPFOR, (opposing forces.) ;-D
Want me to ease back on him and let him spin to a calmer state? ;-D
Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? I'm REALLY enjoying showing what a dishonorable LYING libTURD creep you are cornflake gurl! Even the scum sucking insane libTURDS at DU don't think much of you, in fact they think that you are a LIAR. LOL! THAT'S really got to sting, when DU thinks that you are a LYING faggot creep you've got a real problem, well IF you are a craven LYING libTURD like you are faggot. the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
Living in mouth breather's empty noggins 24/7/365 totally rent free!
I have no opinion on this matter. I was just lifting the needle.
. Is the pilot light indicating "truth", (as you "know" it of course), ON now faggot mikey? I'm REALLY enjoying showing what a dishonorable LYING libTURD creep you are cornflake gurl! Even the scum sucking insane libTURDS at DU don't think much of you, in fact they think that you are a LIAR. LOL! THAT'S really got to sting, when DU thinks that you are a LYING faggot creep you've got a real problem, well IF you are a craven LYING libTURD like you are faggot. the faggot LIAR LIES! Imagine THAT! Faggot mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me. Isn't faggot mikey "special"? I mean for a pitiful ass sucking LIAR, who never served in any branch of the US armed forces. On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex.
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I am having fun slapping the blind man on the ass like a piñata, but I do know that this can be boring to watch if one is not involved. ;-D
Kewl, as he does deserve this.
Nawww, leave them alone I like watching them pull each others hair out......
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning
Here is an easier one; know what SAEDA means? I mean, most units have posters about SAEDA all over the cantonment area.
Actually, I'm having more fun than a kid pulling the legs off a fly.
Give up? SAEDA = subversion and espionage directed against the U.S. Army, and deliberate security violations. It is a program which helps soldiers of all ranks and jobs know what to look for to detect enemy operatives gather intelligence on an Army installation.
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#7. To: Mad Dog (#5)
"On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex."
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"...mikey, the self claimed CIB carrying "veteran", showing the TRUE level of "his" RESPECT and HONOR for the veteran who was the subject of this thread, because he wants to mess with me."
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#15. To: Mad Dog (#12)
"On the plus side, little "man" et. al. think that faggot mikey looks pretty in spandex."
#16. To: Mad Dog (#14)
"SOP, (that means "standard operating procedure"),"
#17. To: Mad Dog (#14)
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j. Panama (Operation JUST CAUSE) - From 20 December 1989 to 31 January 1990, the soldier must have met the criteria prescribed in b and c above. Special forces personnel (less the special forces medical sergeant) are eligible for the CIB effective 20 December 1989. Retroactive awards are not authorized.
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#20. To: Mad Dog (#18)
"Gee a picture of a CIB! That really PROVES alot"
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#28. To: Ferret Mike (#24)
so be careful about writing a check with your mouth your ass can't cover.
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#36. To: A K A Stone (#33)
"I have no opinion on this matter. I was just lifting the needle."
#37. To: A K A Stone (#29)
I think this thread has a scratch in it. Here let me lift the needle.
#38. To: Mad Dog (#34)
#39. To: CZ82 (#37)
"Nawww, leave them alone I like watching them pull each others hair out......"
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