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[Woodtroll]

This touched a nerve in me from way back.
I recall those evenings too, Jack.
Dread was the word. Dread and hopelessness.
High school kids who didn’t know the difference from their *** and a hole in the ground awaiting their fate. If your parents couldn’t afford to send you to college Uncle Sam would gladly give you a full ride to the University of Viet Nam.
If you graduated the U of VN they’d send you right back home like you weren’t even gone!
If your number got picked you dreaded the mailman every day after.
You can’t traumatize a generation of youth much more than that.
Yeah, those nights were one hell of a bingo game.
When paired with the nightly news today in Viet Nam body count score, dread was an understatement.
Although we were toughened up with all the World nuclear obliteration by the Red Menace drills in school and TV commercials.
Yeah, today it’s always someone else somewhere else.
B

For those of us old enough to remember them, some things about the good old days weren't so good. This is one of those things, for sure.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

This touched a nerve in me from way back.
I recall those evenings too, Jack.
Dread was the word. Dread and hopelessness.
High school kids who didn’t know the difference from their *** and a hole in the ground awaiting their fate. If your parents couldn’t afford to send you to college Uncle Sam would gladly give you a full ride to the University of Viet Nam.
If you graduated the U of VN they’d send you right back home like you weren’t even gone!
If your number got picked you dreaded the mailman every day after.
You can’t traumatize a generation of youth much more than that.
Yeah, those nights were one hell of a bingo game.
When paired with the nightly news today in Viet Nam body count score, dread was an understatement.
Although we were toughened up with all the World nuclear obliteration by the Red Menace drills in school and TV commercials.
Yeah, today it’s always someone else somewhere else.
B

I had torn my right knee ACL meniscus in HS football. Mine could not be repaired & had to be removed with surgery. Scope surgeries had not been developed yet so I ended up with a scar that looked like the seam on a baseball. When I registered for the draft & they asked about large identifying scars it really hit home what that information was for. “Surgical scar - Right knee” is listed on my ID card, which I still have. I also still have my last Classification card issued before the lottery. It was a long drive home from the Draft Board that day, with plenty of time to think about what my future could bring.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“Be careful, dog. You're about to go to a place you never been before. That **** don't come with seat belts.” — Lingerie, The Beach Bum

 

[Blackthorn]

Stop looking through key holes. It's bad for the eyes...Carson

Red Dust, 1932

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“You see, we don't make our history any more than the Apache makes his weather.” — Sgt. Major Thomas Riordan, Horizon, An American Saga

 

[Hurricane Jack]

"Indians is fightin' for their way of life, the right to live the way they did before we got here - just like our kin fought the British almost a hundred years ago. ‘Cept the Indians is called savages…” — Teaspoon Hunter, The Young Riders

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“When that war ends, and it will end, whether we're one nation or two. They'll all start looking west again, sir. And then these open spaces you mention, that the Aboriginal love so well, that they say they can't live without. Well, sir, they'll all close up in a blink of an eye, sir. That's how it ends here. I believe that's how all the frontier ends.” — Sgt. Major Thomas Riordan, Horizon, An American Saga

 

[Hurricane Jack]

“Hey there fella, heard you were a famous gravedigger. Said you buried a few famous people. Buy you a drink?” — wayfaring stranger

Shouts out to the Barkeeper, “Cognac! Top Shelf!” — Digger (Danny Trejo), The Night They Came Home

 

[TelemarkTumalo]

Lacey:
Where'd you git a *** like this?

Jimmy:
At the gittin' place.

All The Pretty Horses, 2000

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Said to the wayfaring stranger while drinking cognac, “Whoa, whoa, whoa! Easy! Get your moneys worth!” — Digger (Danny Trejo), The Night They Came Home

 

[Ed Bass]

Toots: "Hee hee hee hee..."
Rocco: "What's funny?"
Toots: "Nothin' "
Rocco: "Then why'd you laugh?"
Toots: "I don't know."
Rocco: "Dumbell..."

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Said to the stablehand after putting his horse & gear in the stall,
“I’m going out & get a morning whiskey. If all goes wrong I’ll come back & sleep in that stall.” — Tom Horn, Tom Horn

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

 

[TelemarkTumalo]

The point bein', that even in the contest between man and steer, the issue is not certain

Sheriff Tom Bell
No Country for Old Men

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

“****** hell! You paint me green, make me lie in a coffin with a rotten stinking dead cat, and now you strip me ******* naked!”

Agar, The Great Train Robbery

 

[tamoko]

"First Time?"

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

“…Lemme sum it up real quick: If I answer that question you keep asking me, If I give you the name of the big enchilada, you know then it’s bon voyage, Deano, I mean like permanent! I mean like a ****** in my head, you dig? You’re a mouse fighting a gorilla! Kennedy is as dead as that crab meat, the government’s still breathing and you wanna line up with a dead man???”

—- Dean Andrews (John Candy), JFK

 

[TelemarkTumalo]

Lone Watie: We thought about it for a long time, "Endeavor to persevere." And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union.

The Outlaw Josie Wales