Wow! His smile made me smile
What a GREAT and very fitting picture for *photo du jour*, especially in light of the escalating madness in the big *sandbox* our troops have to deal with…
a brief moment in time when everything is RIGHT in his world, captured on film.
Bless his heart...he deserves it!
It also made me a wee bit sad at the same time, for all the ones that have gone before him, and again, I could not help but think of Spc. Keith *Matt* Maupin, the only unaccounted for U. S. soldier, still missing in Iraq. Google his name and say a prayer for him.
God Bless America, and God Bless our Troops!!
(Clears throat and stands tall)
OOH-RAH
Good Ole American YEE-Hawd! (be afraid moo-hama-MF, be very afraid) (My kind of folks- Marines with first names like ‘Lossie’, ‘Lacy’, and ‘BobbyJoe’ and my dear Francisco)
Copperhead Road
(Steve Earle)
Well my name’s John Lee Pettimore
Same as my daddy and his daddy before
You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here
He only came to town about twice a year
He’d buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line
Everybody knew that he made moonshine
Now the revenue man wanted Grandaddy bad
He headed up the holler with everything he had
It’s before my time but I’ve been told
He never came back from Copperhead Road
Now Daddy ran the whiskey in a big block Dodge
Bought it at an auction at the Mason’s Lodge
Johnson County Sheriff painted on the side
Just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside
Well him and my uncle tore that engine down
I still remember that rumblin’ sound
Well the sheriff came around in the middle of the night
Heard mama cryin’, knew something wasn’t right
He was headed down to Knoxville with the weekly load
You could smell the whiskey burnin’ down Copperhead Road
I volunteered for the (Marines) on my birthday
They draft the white trash first,’round here anyway
I done two tours of duty in Vietnam
And I came home with a brand new plan
I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico
I plant it up the holler down Copperhead Road
Well the D.E.A.’s got a chopper in the air
I wake up screaming like I’m back over there
I learned a thing or two from ol’ Charlie don’t you know
You better stay away from Copperhead Road
What a great smile! Lucky guy, he deserves all he can gather for his service.
The Hobo
It’s the smile. sob!
Even without the girl, I wish I could be there with him.
Too many years.
nice picture,he deserves it.
What can I say? Chicks dig men in uniform.
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