Walter Cronkite

Discussion in 'General Mayhem' started by Nauseous, Jul 17, 2009.

  1. Nauseous

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    Dead at 92.
     
  2. BIGMAMA

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    he was pervert into role playing as a little boy being caught sniffing panties by the babysitter..

    oh wait, damn that was not him... it was another old news guy.. Tom something - never mind.

    was he on anyone's "death prediction" list? I would like to add Vanilla Ice to mine. And Cher and Tommy Lee Jones.
     
  3. Joeslogic

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    Army Private Aaron Fairbairn



    Just a kid who liked to go four wheeling, thoughts of becoming a mechanic. Just out of High School soooooo much he never lived and experienced in life.
     
  5. TravisBean

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    End of an era

    R. I. P. Walter Cronkite. He was the greatest newsman of all time. At one time, a public poll showed that if he ran for president, he would have won.
     
  6. Joeslogic

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    Gunnery Sgt. Michael Burghardt 8 lives left



    Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US soldiers... He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. "You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision," he explained. So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term "the longest walk," stepping gingerly into a 5 foot deep and 8 foot wide crater.

    The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his 7 inch knife to probe the ground. "I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs," he says. "That's when I knew I was screwed."

    Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt. Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet. "A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded," he recalled. "As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me.' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down."

    His colleagues cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there. "My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down," says Sgt Burghardt. "I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a real sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.'" As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. "I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher." He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. "I flipped them one. It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week.'"
     
  7. Joeslogic

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    Gunnery Sgt. Michael Burghardt 8 lives left



    Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US soldiers... He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. "You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision," he explained. So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term "the longest walk," stepping gingerly into a 5 foot deep and 8 foot wide crater.

    The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his 7 inch knife to probe the ground. "I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs," he says. "That's when I knew I was screwed."

    Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt. Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet. "A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded," he recalled. "As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me.' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down."

    His colleagues cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there. "My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down," says Sgt Burghardt. "I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a real sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.'" As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. "I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher." He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. "I flipped them one. It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week.'"
     
  8. JEFE

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    Joe, how does any of this connect to his death?
     
  9. TravisBean

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    I might be mistaken, but I think he is trying to point out how for every famous person that dies, there are many, many, more who's deaths go unnoticed, who gave as much towards the greater good, if not more.
     
  10. Cheezedawg

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    Pardon the fuck outta me you fucking retardbean... but how does a 97 minute old baby done any good in this world at all? Other than maybe providing some fresh fertilizer and only then if it was buried without a casket. Maybe buzzard food if it was left out to rot.

    Anyways, why the fuck are they turning the death of a baby into a "hero" piece about a priest who did nothing more than pour water on a baby's head? Oh! Look! You poured water on his head! Now he can go to heaven... where he can't understand a fucking thing anyone else is saying cause he isn't old enough to speak or think! Brilliant!

    Any by the way, Baptisim is symbolic of the conscious decision to follow things God's way. If you are 97 minutes old.... you aren't qualified to make that decision yet. Therefore... baptism invalid.
     
  11. Joeslogic

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    Exactly and I was not trying to take away at all from Walter C. but I'm guessing that most people knew this. ;)
     
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    True .... at least for the most part.

    I personally do not believe in Catholicism or Baptism in the literal sense either. I do believe regardless of your ideas on religion weather Hindu, Islam, Christian, whatever most can agree there is good and evil and the more we age the more we become the latter. Or possibly it would be more accurate to say the more we are tarnished/soiled by being in the muck. A newborn however would be more close to pure good pure innocence than any adult could possibly be.

    For me it was not about the religious story but about innocence.
     
  13. TravisBean

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    I certainly can respect your opinion, for I come from a long line of retards.
    My father was a retard and his father before him was a retard.
    But what has that to do with posting about American soldiers dying in the line of duty??
    This is a thread about Walter Cronkite is it not? You know, the newsman, or do you even know who Walter Cronkite was?
     
  14. Cheezedawg

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    I'm 34. And I don't come from a long line of retards. So yes.... I know who Walter was. I believed he cried on air the night of the Tet Offensive in the vietnam war. Billed as the greatest newscaster ever.
     
  15. TravisBean

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    So, if your not developmentally challenged, then why was my explanation of Joeslogic's intent over your head ? ( you big retard, no insult intended :p)
     
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  16. Cheezedawg

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    Because along with those stories was a story about a baptism for a dying baby you retard!!!!
     
  17. TravisBean

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    Well, I didn't post the story about the dying baby. My quote:
    Which was in reference to the stories about lost soldiers. (not infants, oh retarded one)
    And apparently was quite clear:
    You should have directed your asinine comments to the one who posted the baby story, not me.
     
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