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Site Supporter   Location: Round Rock, TX Joined: Thu Mar 5, 2015 Posts: 3899 Real Name: Dave 
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golddigger14s wrote: jukk0u wrote: You know.... Yamamoto's quote about guns behind every blade of grass is one of the most effective Pro-2A statements a person could use. Unfortunately............................... Misattributed[edit] I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. Statement made after the attack on Pearl Harbor by Yamamoto as portrayed in the film Tora! Tora! Tora!, this is one of the most quoted remarks attributed to him. Though it is thought that it summarizes his sentiments well, a definite source for this quote has never been provided. William Safire wrote that there is no printed evidence to support this quote. Safire's Political Dictionary, page 666. For more information see the Wikipedia article "Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote". You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass. It has been declared this attribution is "unsubstantiated and almost certainly bogus, even though it has been repeated thousands of times in various Internet postings. There is no record of the commander in chief of Japan’s wartime fleet ever saying it.", according to Brooks Jackson in "Misquoting Yamamoto" at Factcheck.org (11 May 2009), which cites Donald M. Goldstein, sometimes called "the dean of Pearl Harbor historians", writing "I have never seen it in writing. It has been attributed to the Prange files [the files of the late Gordon W. Prange, chief historian on the staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur] but no one had ever seen it or cited it from where they got it." Thank you Chuck for the citation. I have never questioned the veracity of this quote before and always appreciate the need to re-evaluate my historical understanding based on the latest facts and research. Greatly appreciated. Looking for additional biographical material on Admiral Yamamoto turns up scant results. Unfortunate there is not much more in print about him currently. I have done quite a bit of reading in the past on Admirals Spruance, Halsey, and Nimitz. It's too bad that there is not much available on the lives of their Japanese counterparts. Hard to form a balanced historical opinion on the conflict when there is a paucity of sources from the Japanese perspective. _________________ There are dead horses yet to be slain.... - NWGunner |
| Mon Oct 16, 2017 11:01 am |
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 Location: Puyallup Joined: Thu Aug 16, 2012 Posts: 9065 Real Name: Richard Fitzwelliner
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My wife and kids tagged along with her side of the family out to their hunting spot and last night she sent me a text saying she wants to do hunters ed and get a rifle. My 9 year old shot a fal, and wanted to shoot a 7mm but he saw the round compared to a 308 and said ohhh maybe next year j don't want my arm to explode
_________________ If she sits on your face and you can still hear, SHE'S NOT FAT. I'm going to type out 3 paragraphs and wax eloquently about a similar story in my life. Pm me if you figured it out. |
| Mon Oct 16, 2017 11:42 am |
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Site Supporter  Location: Olympia Joined: Wed Feb 6, 2013 Posts: 5365 Real Name: Reid
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Well, it's official. I'm a college graduate.
 _________________ "If it doesn't work, the proper sequence of tools is duct tape->screwdriver->hammer->shotgun. If none of that fixes it, it wasn't meant to work in the first place." I am free because I say I am. My freedom is not dependent on any government benefit or piece of legislation. My rights are inherent in the fact that I was born a sovereign being. They are non-negotiable. The government can list them and protect them, but my rights are not theirs to give away. Yolo: Because idiots don't know what "carpe diem" means. What, do you think I`m an amateur? You think this is Amateur hour? I`m covered in broken glass and hatred. You think someone would want to anger that with a Vz? - Fjordforder |
| Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:08 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: Nova Laboratories Joined: Tue Oct 25, 2011 Posts: 18446 Real Name: Johnny 5
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Captain90s wrote: Well, it's official. I'm a college graduate. I thought cooking was an art?  Congrats !  _________________ NO DISASSEMBLE! Thomas Paine wrote: "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." |
| Mon Oct 16, 2017 5:29 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: Index Joined: Thu Aug 23, 2012 Posts: 12963 Real Name: Jeff
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Captain90s wrote: Well, it's official. I'm a college graduate.      _________________ -Jeff How can I help you, and/or make you smile, today? You are entitled to your opinion. You are not entitled to tell me what mine must be. Do justice. Love mercy. “I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” ~ Richard P. Feynman |
| Mon Oct 16, 2017 5:48 pm |
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Site Moderator   Location: Marysville Joined: Thu Mar 22, 2012 Posts: 13502 Real Name: Mike
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Captain90s wrote: Well, it's official. I'm a college graduate. Looking forward to the opening of your new restaurant "Ginger Snaps" _________________ Licensed/Bonded/Insured Hardwood Floor Installer/Finisher http://www.hardwoodfloorsnw.com/ |
| Mon Oct 16, 2017 6:02 pm |
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Site Admin   Location: Renton, WA Joined: Sun Mar 13, 2011 Posts: 52021 Real Name: Steve
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Congratulations, Reid! I know you busted ass to get that done.
_________________ Steve Benefactor Life Member, National Rifle Association Life Member, Second Amendment Foundation Patriot & Life Member, Gun Owners of America Life Member, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Legal Action Supporter, Firearms Policy Coalition Member, NAGR/NFGR Please support the organizations that support all of us. Leave it cleaner than you found it. |
| Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:12 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: RENTON Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2011 Posts: 20771 Real Name: John
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Well done Reid! ...and a nice new Pup too.
_________________ Mr. Q wrote: so basically, if you have to smoke some asshole, make sure they become fertilizer and then Bounce? got it. Guntrader wrote: Huh, maybe I was an asshole. NRA Member/RSO SAF 5 Year Donor GOA Member |
| Mon Oct 16, 2017 9:50 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: Shelton Joined: Sun Nov 17, 2013 Posts: 5838
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Got my scope rings in today.
And got the kitchen counter in, sink attached, garbage disposal in and operational, sway bar end links showed up today, and backup camera showed up today. |
| Mon Oct 16, 2017 10:11 pm |
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In Memoriam  Location: Tacoma Wa Joined: Tue Oct 8, 2013 Posts: 16607 Real Name: George Bailey
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Its winter so back to the gym.
Sore as hell from yesterday...... Made it through spin this morning without a cardiac event _________________ "Remove one freedom per generation and soon you will have no freedom and no one would have noticed."......Carl Marx "Let us Cross the river and sit in the shade of the trees" .....Stonewall Jackson T. Jefferson "....the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. it is it's natural manure" |
| Tue Oct 17, 2017 5:25 am |
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Site Supporter  Location: Faxon, OK Joined: Sat Mar 19, 2011 Posts: 17816 Real Name: Chuck
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Went deer hunting with Dreadi today.
_________________ "The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it." Thomas Jefferson "Evil often triumphs, but never conquers." Joseph Roux |
| Tue Oct 17, 2017 7:16 pm |
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Site Supporter / FFL Dealer  Location: Tacoma, Washington Joined: Fri Nov 21, 2014 Posts: 8351
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Took the YL out to see The Marriage of Fiiiiiiigarrro!
_________________ BLACK HAMMER ARMS Buy A Suppressor http://www.silencershop.com/blackhammerarms Type 7 Class 2 SOT NFA Dealer 1911 Pistolsmithing Firearm Refinishing GLOCK Certified Armorer CMMG Authorized Dealer NEMO Arms Authorized Dealer http://www.blackhammerarms.com http://www.facebook.com/blackhammerarms https://www.instagram.com/blackhammerarms/ |
| Wed Oct 18, 2017 11:18 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: England Joined: Wed Apr 29, 2015 Posts: 2954 Real Name: Michael
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Got a package of leverhead coffee in the mail
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| Thu Oct 19, 2017 11:01 am |
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Site Admin Location: Renton, WA Joined: Sun Mar 13, 2011 Posts: 52021 Real Name: Steve
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Mike in Wa wrote: Got a package of leverhead coffee in the mail Yep, that's a good day! _________________ Steve Benefactor Life Member, National Rifle Association Life Member, Second Amendment Foundation Patriot & Life Member, Gun Owners of America Life Member, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Legal Action Supporter, Firearms Policy Coalition Member, NAGR/NFGR Please support the organizations that support all of us. Leave it cleaner than you found it. |
| Thu Oct 19, 2017 5:15 pm |
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Site Supporter  Location: Lynnwood and at large Joined: Wed May 1, 2013 Posts: 21256 Real Name: Vick Lagina
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Got to shoot a friend's custom 6.5 CM rifle. (w/suppressor).. very nice!
_________________ “Finding ‘common ground’ with the thinking of evil men is a fool’s errand” ~ Herschel Smith "The “A return to First Principles in a Republic is sometimes caused by simple virtues of a single man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example. Before all else, be armed!” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli Láodòng zhèng zhūwèi zìyóu FJB |
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