CaptnQunt, your sig is stupid AF

[JackRabbit_Slim]

Qunt, your paragraph sig after every single post is annoying and stupid. I vote that you get rid of it.

That's all.

[CaptQuint]

IDGAF

[JackRabbit_Slim]

Who do you think you are anyway? Some patriot?

[CaptQuint]

Who do you think you are anyway? Some patriot?

Who are you to doubt my patriotism?

[JackRabbit_Slim]

Seems to me.. if you have to put so much effort into espousing your patriotism.. it's likely contrived.

Are you a vet?

[CaptQuint]

Seems to me.. if you have to put so much effort into espousing your patriotism.. it's likely contrived.

Are you a vet?

I am not, I sleep beneath portraits of Teddy Roosevelt and George Washington. If you think it's contrived that's fine.

[CaptQuint]

On this date in 1945, U.S. Marines raised the flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima

[JackRabbit_Slim]

On this date in 1945, U.S. Marines raised the flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima

That flag raising is just as contrived as your patriotism.. it was a choreographed PR stunt.. dumb

[CaptQuint]

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[Stapes]

On this date in 1945, U.S. Marines raised the flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima

That flag raising is just as contrived as your patriotism.. it was a choreographed PR stunt.. dumb

Wrong info again JRS. I can guarantee that there were no PR people in the middle of a battle on Iwo Jima choreographing shit. 3 of those Marines went on to die in action in the day and days that's followed


http://hoaxes.org/photo_database/image/ ... n_iwo_jima


he image of Marines raising an American flag on the peak of Iwo Jima's Mt. Suribachi was taken by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. It is one of the most reproduced images in history, having appeared on a postage stamp (which for years was the biggest selling stamp in U.S. post office history) and also served as the model for the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. However, within days after Rosenthal took it, rumors began to spread that he had staged it. Although these rumors have been repeatedly discredited, they continue to be repeated to the present day.

The rumors can be traced back to the fact -- which Rosenthal never tried to hide -- that he photographed the second flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi, not the first. The marines had raised a flag earlier in the day, under heavy fire. Marine Photographer Louis Lowery managed to get a shot of this event (bottom). But the commanders later decided this first flag should be replaced by a larger one. Rosenthal only arrived at the peak in time to photograph this second flag raising, but he always insisted that he never directed or posed the soldiers in this shot any way.

[Homebrew]

On this date in 1945, U.S. Marines raised the flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima

Now, just where have I seen that .gif before...