Thread: Go crazy in here!!!

Originally Posted by Dinar Duchess

I got this from IIF, real tear jerker. God bless our troops

Until Then

Thanks for this. It really brought to tears to our eyes and pain in our hearts. God bless all our soldiers giving up their lives for this cause. I hope in somehow their families won't be forgotten like so many of our veterans were.

My wife has been to DC and seen all the monuments and Arlington. I told her I would not ever want to go there because I too have seen alot of "kids" killed in combat and to me it would just be a reminder of how many great young people we have lost that never had a chance to live as we do. So to all these Hero's and their family's, I salute you and Thank You.

Originally Posted by choochie

Don't know how many have been to Washington D.C. to visit some of these monuments, but I have been there first hand. I would have to say that the Iwo Jima memorial and the Vietnam memorial have some of the most awesome energy. You can just feel it when you are there.

This is what I and most of MANY out there still love what America is all about, never mind their street gangs or pathetic politicians that roam in limousines and black SUVs

There is something to hold pride in and be proud as a nation of diverse backgrounds that stand tall in what is further represented even to the smallest minute details...one being the Memorial Grounds to show respect to Life that once belongs to those that left with some meaning to leave behind and remind those, it was a worthy cause to be a patriot in some form, shape and creed with the deeds displayed!!!

Whatever oil and big bucks that flow out of Iraq, i know for certain that they won't have time nor money nor sentiments to shed and appreciate those "meaningless martyrs" and those courageous captives that were beheaded after being kidnapped by their own fellow faith believers....

There is one distinct difference we can distance ourselves from the many war-torn and unstable counttries.... give them another 200 years and they still wont achieve what the USA accomplished in 150 years of tremendous pride as a living testimony in helping others to become like them...only to be blasted back in body-bags from sheer "ungratefulness" given to the Americans who still continues to extend.... to help reshape another country...NOT occupy as they alleged...and sickly enough, is also echoed by some living within the USA !!!

I don't have to be an American nor see the need to go after a Green Card but where credit is due, it has to be admitted, America is and will always be a better nation of people that care so others can lead a successful life like they are.

Ooops, yes I am aware they have ghettos too... but despite that all, resources are set aside to help other nations... try figure out and come back with some solid stats that other countries are on equal standing, with the exception of UK, Australia, Canada respectively, having to defend in the face of mud slung at them by the very countries that should do more than just being hot air and not lifting a finger to share the damage count!

As for the Mid East countries.... they sure NEED TO LEARN more to educate themselves above ALL ELSE by starting to appreciate being grateful and considerate to any outside nation risking their brave and worthy men to be sacrificed in harm's way for the pathetic lives of many that are still illiterate because of their own choice to live that way for the last 1000 years of cultural and religious inconsistencies....

I was myself, back then, moved when I lined the rows at Arlington... may God bless America and her nation facing great evil from within and more so elsewhere on the planet...


YB. - cheers to all who remembers and shares their wealth when they can afford, whatever amount, to those less fortunate...

Thanks for this. Very interesting reading. It brought back reminders of when I was a little girl and my Dad, a sergeant in the US Army Left for France and my 18 year old cousin went to fight the Japanese. When my cousin came on leave he ended up comiting suicide because he couldn't deal with the horrors he had seen, and couldn't go back. I give thanks every day for having been born in the GREAT United States of America.

Originally Posted by Offshore-Wealth.com

Interesting story worth sharing given the fact so many of the forces are the same young age fighting in Iraq.



Tale of Six Boys

Each year I am hired to go to Washington, DC, with the eighth grade class from Clinton, WI. where I grew up, to videotape their trip. I greatly enjoy visiting our nation's capitol, and each year I take some special memories back with me. This fall's trip was especially memorable.

On the last night of our trip, we stopped at the Iwo Jima memorial. This memorial is the largest bronze statue in the world and depicts one of the most famous photographs in history -- that of the six brave soldiers raising the American Flag at the top of a rocky hill on the island of Iwo Jima, Japan, during WW II.

Over one hundred students and chaperones piled off the buses and headed towards the memorial. I noticed a solitary figure at the base of the statue, and as I got closer he asked, "Where are you guys from?"

I told him that we were from Wisconsin. "Hey, I'm a cheese head, too! Come gather around, Cheese heads, and I will tell you a story."

(James Bradley just happened to be in Washington, DC,to speak at the memorial the following day. He was there that night to say good night to his dad, who has since passed away. He was just about to leave when he saw the buses pull up. I videotaped him as he spoke to us, and received his permission to share what he said from my videotape. It is one thing to tour the incredible monuments filled with history in Washington, D.C., but it is quite another to get the kind of insight we received that night.) When all had gathered around, he reverently began to speak. (Here are his words that night.)

"My name is James Bradley and I'm from Antigo,Wisconsin. My dad is on that statue, and I just wrote a book called "Flags of Our Fathers" which is #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list right now. It is the story of the six boys you see behind me.

"Six boys raised the flag. The first guy putting the pole in the ground is Harlon Block. Harlon was an all-state football player. He enlisted in the Marine Corps with all the senior members of his football team. They were off to play another type of game. A game called "War." But it didn't turn out to be a game.

Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines in his hands. I don't say that to gross you out, I say that because there are people who stand in front of this statue and talk about the glory of war. You guys need to know that most of the boys in Iwo Jima were 17, 18, and 19 years old.

(He pointed to the statue) "You see this next guy? That's Rene Gagnon from New Hampshire. If you took Rene's helmet off at the moment this photo was taken and looked in the webbing of that helmet, you would find a photograph...a photograph of his girlfriend. Rene put that in there for protection because he was scared. He was 18 years old. Boys won the battle of Iwo Jima. Boys. Not old men

"The next guy here, the third guy in this tableau, was Sergeant Mike Strank. Mike is my hero. He was the hero of all these guys. They called him the "old man" because he was so old. He was already 24. When Mike would motivate his boys in training camp, he didn't say, 'Let's go kill some Japanese' or 'Let's die for our country.' He knew he was talking to little boys. Instead he would say, 'You do what I say, and I'll get you home to your mothers.'

"The last guy on this side of the statue is Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian from Arizona. Ira Hayes walked off Iwo Jima. He went into the White House with my dad. President Truman told him, 'You're a hero' He told reporters, 'How can I feel like a hero when 250 of my buddies hit the island with me and only 27 of us walked off alive?' So you take your class at school, 250 of you spending a year together having fun, doing everything together. Then all 250 of you hit the beach, but only 27 of your classmates walk off alive. That was Ira Hayes. He had images of horror in his mind. Ira Hayes died dead drunk, face down at the age of 32 .. ten years after this picture was taken.

"The next guy, going around the statue, is Franklin Sousley from Hilltop, Kentucky. A fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. His best friend, who is now 70, told me, 'Yeah, you know,we took two cows up on the porch of the Hilltop General Store. Then we strung wire across the stairs so the cows couldn't get down. Then we fed them Epsom salts. Those cows crapped all night. Yes, he was a fun-lovin' hillbilly boy. Franklin died on Iwo Jima at the age of 19. When the telegram came to tell his mother that he was dead, it went to the Hilltop General Store. A barefoot boy ran that telegram up to his mother's farm. The neighbors could hear her scream all night and into the morning. The neighbors lived a quarter of a mile away.

"The next guy, as we continue to go around the statue, is my dad, John Bradley from Antigo, Wisconsin, where I was raised.. My dad lived until 1994, but he would never give interviews. When Walter Cronkite's producers, or the New York Times would call, we were trained as little kids to say,"No, I'm sorry, sir, my dad's not here. He is in Canada fishing. No, there is no phone there, sir. No, we don't know when he is coming back." My dad never fished or even
went to Canada. Usually, he was sitting there right at the table eating his Campbell's soup. But we had to tell the press that he was out fishing. He didn't want to talk to the press.

"You see, my dad didn't see himself as a hero Everyone thinks these guys are heroes, 'cause they are in a photo and on a monument. My dad knew better. He was a medic. John Bradley from Wisconsin was a caregiver. In Iwo Jima he probably held over 200 boys as they died. And when boys died in Iwo Jima, they writhed and screamed in pain.

"When I was a little boy, my third grade teacher told me that my dad was a hero. When I went home and told my dad that, he looked at me and said, 'I want you always to remember that the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who did not come back. Did NOT come back.'"

"So that's the story about six nice young boys. Three died on Iwo Jima, and three came back as national heroes. Overall, 7,000 boys died on Iwo Jima in the worst battle in the history of the Marine Corps. My voice is giving out, so I will end here. Thank you for your time."

Suddenly, the monument wasn't just a big old piece of metal with a flag sticking out of the top. It came to life before our eyes with the heartfelt words of a son who did indeed have a father who was a hero. Maybe not a hero for the reasons most people would believe, but a hero nonetheless.


We need to remember that God created this vast and glorious world for us to live in, freely, but also at great sacrifice. Let us never forget from the Revolutionary War to the current War on Terrorism and all the wars in-between that sacrifice was made for our freedom. Remember to pray praises for this great country of ours and also pray for those still in murderous unrest around the world. STOP and thank God for being alive and being free at someone else's
sacrifice.

REMINDER: Everyday that you can wake up free is a blessing.

Hi everybody, I have been keeping up with reading all the important stuff and am grateful to everyone who searches for and posts all the news articles they can find cocerning Iraq.
One thing though that has been plaquing me for some time now is the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have bought millions of dinars which most likely is now into the trillions of dinar in circulation. Now, when the IQD revalues as high as we all hope it to be, where is all the money going to come from to pay all of us as we trade in our IQD? We know that Iraq doesn't have the money to back up that amount. Sure they have the oil, but most of it is still in the ground and what they are pumping out right now is helping them to keep going economically but thats about it. So am I to assume that the trillions of dollars that havre to be paid out will come from the international banking community? I obviously don't have much understanding when it comes to the worlds monetary systems. Is anyone able to please put my mind at ease since I have put some of my last money (I lost big time with PIPS) into buying a few millon IQD's to hopefully see better financial times ahead.
Thanks for anyone bringing forth factual, logical information to put my mind at ease,
gogreen (sorry for being so long winded )

Originally Posted by panhead

A certain political party would rather have the population on some kind of
government program so they can pat each other on the back while raising your taxes to do it.

Totally agree. But I guess since I am a Vet I am not educated enough to have an opinion.

OSOK

Originally Posted by gogreen

Hi everybody, I have been keeping up with reading all the important stuff and am grateful to everyone who searches for and posts all the news articles they can find cocerning Iraq.
One thing though that has been plaquing me for some time now is the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have bought millions of dinars which most likely is now into the trillions of dinar in circulation. Now, when the IQD revalues as high as we all hope it to be, where is all the money going to come from to pay all of us as we trade in our IQD? We know that Iraq doesn't have the money to back up that amount. Sure they have the oil, but most of it is still in the ground and what they are pumping out right now is helping them to keep going economically but thats about it. So am I to assume that the trillions of dollars that havre to be paid out will come from the international banking community? I obviously don't have much understanding when it comes to the worlds monetary systems. Is anyone able to please put my mind at ease since I have put some of my last money (I lost big time with PIPS) into buying a few millon IQD's to hopefully see better financial times ahead.
Thanks for anyone bringing forth factual, logical information to put my mind at ease,
gogreen (sorry for being so long winded )

Interesting,

Although I can understand your concern, your numbers are way off as to how many have invested in dinar. Most people have never heard of dinar, so to assume hundreds of thousands have millions and they will all be cashing out at the same time is not what is actually going to happen. No one knows for sure how many are holding dinar, but I think the number is much smaller than hundreds of thousands from what I see.

Good luck to all, Mike

Originally Posted by Hardwood

I think the anti-climatic scenario is what we will see. As avid participants, we are watching with close scrutiny every tidbit of info coming out of Iraq. The average Joe doesn't. He sees what his particular news channel shows him.

The day the Dinar "revals" or takes a significant leap in value, it will go mostly unnoticed if only for a day or so. We will already be nursing our hangovers when the rest of the world reads the headlines the next day!

And I hope the headline reads "Thousands of US citizens become overnight millionaires".... not millions of US citizens... I wonder how many of us there are actually? Anyone know the estimated number of "speculators" in the private sector, that is??

We'll probably find out in the next couple weeks!

I agree Hardwood. I think the number is in the Thousands range. Based on what I have seen on the other sites and some of the people I know, many think this is simply to risky. I for one also believed it was risky, but also a good investment. I would bet there is not one self made Millionaire in the world that didn't take a risk here and there . And through reading some of those Thousands are only at 1 Mil or less. Just what they feel comfortable losing. Which is what investing is all about.

OSOK

Originally Posted by jedi17

nursing our hangovers???? I plan on staying drunk for quite a while

Said you well my young padawan. Sorry Couldn't resist. But I will definitely join you!

OSOK

Originally Posted by Offshore-Wealth.com

Interesting,

Although I can understand your concern, your numbers are way off as to how many have invested in dinar. Most people have never heard of dinar, so to assume hundreds of thousands have millions and they will all be cashing out at the same time is not what is actually going to happen. No one knows for sure how many are holding dinar, but I think the number is much smaller than hundreds of thousands from what I see.

Good luck to all, Mike

I agree with you Mike. Look how many banks we've all gone into and have called that have no knowledge of the dinar. In converstaion with others I have brought up the topic of dinar and 99% of who those I talk with have never heard of this investment and of course think I'm crazy lol.

I also don't think that Chase or other banks are selling just to make the commission. It seems to me that the commission they make is small compared to what they have to gain when the r/v takes place. As all prosperous companies must have, is a vision of success, not short term but long term. It's like the companies giving free hearing tests or eye exams. Testing is not where they make their money. It gets those people in the door and then they sell the hearing aids or eyeglasses. THAT'S where they make their money! When you give a little, the payoff is huge in the end. With the banks, their looking at large deposits from our investment. THAT'S where they'll make their money. IMO