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Funny

A bit of different news!!!!! Who is the patriot?

Only because the guy became an asshole, it doesn't take away from the fact that he was a fighting man for his country.!!!!

In 1961, a young African-American man, after hearing President John F. Kennedy’s challenge to, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country,” gave up his student deferment, left college in Virginia and voluntarily joined the Marines. In 1963, this man, having completed his two years of service in the Marines, volunteered again to become a Navy corpsman. (They provide medical assistance to the Marines as well as to Navy personnel.)

The man did so well in corpsman school that he was the valedictorian and became a cardiopulmonary technician. Not surprisingly, he was assigned to the Navy’s premier medical facility, Bethesda Naval Hospital, as a member of the commander in chief’s medical team, and helped care for President Lyndon B. Johnson after his 1966 surgery. For his service on the team, which he left in 1967, the White House awarded him three letters of commendation. What is even more remarkable is that this man entered the Marines and Navy not many years after the two branches began to become integrated.

While this young man was serving six years on active duty, Vice President Dick Cheney, who was born the same year as the Marine/sailor, received five deferments, four for being an undergraduate and graduate student and one for being a prospective father. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both five years younger than the African-American youth, used their student deferments to stay in college until 1968. Both then avoided going on active duty through family connections.

Who is the real patriot? The young man who interrupted his studies to serve his country for six years or our three political leaders who beat the system? Are the patriots the people who actually sacrifice something or those who merely talk about their love of the country?

After leaving the service of his country, the young African-American finished his final year of college, entered the seminary, was ordained as a minister, and eventually became pastor of a large church in one of America’s biggest cities.__This man is Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the retiring pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, who has been in the news for comments he made over the last three decades.

Since these comments became public we have heard criticisms, condemnations, denouncements and rejections of his comments and him. We’ve seen on television, in a seemingly endless loop, sound bites of a select few of Rev. Wright’s many sermons. Some of the Wright’s comments are inexcusable and inappropriate and should be condemned, but in calling This him “unpatriotic,” let us not forget that this is a man who gave up six of the most productive years of his life to serve his country.

How many of Wright’s detractors, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly to name but a few, volunteered for service, and did so under the often tumultuous circumstances of a newly integrated armed forces and a society in the midst of a civil rights struggle? Not many. While words do count, so do actions. Let us not forget that, for whatever Rev. Wright may have said over the last 30 years, he has demonstrated his patriotism.

Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss are, respectively, Navy and Marine Corps veterans. They work at The Center For American Progress. Korb served as assistant secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration.

Pictures of the Party

These are some pictures of the party, I am with my cousins and rest of the Family, there is also a gringo and a Cuban, all members of the extended family.
One of the pictures is of my Cuz and I walking away from the Mexican restaurant that they took us. That restaurant ruined every single Mexican restaurant here in the south east because the food was so incredible good and the service so freaking perfect that it will be very hard to match.
Enjoy the pics.

The Party

On the second day of my vacation, after a whole day of climbing and walking and eating, we had the event of the vacation.
My nephew had just passed the BAR and was ready to face the corporate world as a Lawyer.
The party didn't start until 9pm. We danced and laughed until 3am.
I met all my cousins and nephews and nieces and everybody related to me by all possible ways.
My 13yo daughter was asked to dance by all the other girls and didn't stop until it was time to go. My cousin got a bit drunk and started to give away all the properties he owns. One of the cousins I have not seen in 28 years was Vicente Antonio, he has a 17 year old boy, a pretty boy that had an eye for my daughter. I should have felt anger but, because he was family I was able to let it pass. My dad gave a great speech, my dad is the oldest of the family and was able to participate in this great event. later he got sick and was taken home by my mom.
And we danced the night away, Vicente Antonio and I were as close as we were before I left my little country. The whole country had change. It also was like I never left.
There are three of us, the oldest sons of the three families and all the family has a strong number one. Miguel has kept the whole family together for a long time. He is a successful business man running a security firm in San Salvador. His wife is a very successful engineer and a complete angel that welcomed us into their home.
They have a beautiful and modest home full of color and pictures from both families.

The party was great and at the end we went home to check on my dad.
Next morning I was told that my dad was at the emergency room and discovered that he was dehydrated.
Three days later and full room service with all the possible tests performed to a human being he left the hospital after paying $800.00 for EVERYTHING, including my mom's food, she stayed with him for the whole three days.

IF YOU EVER NEED MEDICAL CARE, surgery, plastic surgery and the sorts, ask you insurance company to see if they pay for the whole thing, including the plane ticket. I asked the American next door what was he doing there and he told me that the insurance company had paid for everything for his hernia operation in El Salvador. BTY I think that Dental work is also done and covered by some insurance companies.
So if I get sick or need an operation, I know where I am going for it.

Of course I went in a tangent again.... but that was the second and third day of my vacation.

Another day in El Salvador

The second day started early, we went to a big volcano called El Boqueron. My cousin invited us to his home for this vacation, his house was our center of operations. He had promised us that if we got to El Salvador, our money was not going to be good there. He did. His wife is a top Civil Engineer, one of the top engineers in the country and had constructed many housing complexes through out the country. They have two sons, both were perfect and treated us as royalty.
Back to the Volcano, the name meas "the big mouth." It last erupted in 1917 and it was a big one, lava beds are all over the place and my little girl got one rock to bring home. Getting up there was a trip from hell. it is a 45 degree incline all the way up. Of course that there were people selling all kinds of stuff on the road. Not along side the road, they were selling the stuff on the road, all the way up.


It was a long way up, we went to the peak where we were able to see the crater and take tons of pictures. I told my little girls that we were not to leave the house with at least two cameras.
Everything that goes up, must go down. YES, gravity is the weakest force in the universe but when it pulls, you go down. We went down in first gear, about 15 minutes in first gear, fighting the sellers on the road and one drunk bastard that passed out on the street.

After the volcano we went to the Ruins of San Andres. The Pipiles; Mayan indians, were the first ones in the Americas to abolish human sacrifice. Also the Pipiles were never a peaceful people, and my little part of the world has only seen peace until 10 years ago.


After that we went home to shower and go to the party..... That will be another entry.

Thanks for reading.

Vacation

Greetings Y'all
It was the greatest vacation that I have ever had. The whole family went and we were able to meet, see and get back together with my whole clan.
Because we flew to Mexico before anything else we were able to spend a night in the Distrito Federal. The hotel was inside the airport and we had a great time, I had two beers and passed out.
We flew Mexican and it was a lot cheaper than any other airline. Great food and service, just the fact that Mexico is a different culture all together and they do things in a very fast-slow kind of way. But once we got in the airplane the next day going to El Salvador was a very fast and exciting trip.


The second we landed in El Salvador we noticed that safety is not the number one priority of the Salvadorian driver. We drove at about 40 to 50 mph the whole way but it felt we were going 100 mph trying to kill everybody there.
Dropped the bags at my cousin's house and went straight to the beach. It was volcanic black sand and we went straight in the water. The rip tide was very strong and lost my license trying not to drown. I was laughing too hard to care, it was a great feeling to be back in a warm ocean, smelling the aroma of my childhood, sharing it with my daughters.

That night after getting burnt and eaten by mosquitoes we went to another of my cousins house to eat, and that is what we did, we ate and ate and ate and kept eating until my cousins had the great idea to get more food.
After about pass midnight we went home and went to sleep for about five hours. That was the end of the first day, I am posting some pictures of my first day there.