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Joined: August 2003 Posts: 4619
Location: SoCal | Hadn't seen this before:
http://www.kamanmusic.com/?fa=news&art=190
Gee, always thought they could string some concertina wire on an e-tool (small folding entrenching tool/shovell).
Doubt if the Grunt will get his hands on one but nice gesture. | |
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Joined: July 2002 Posts: 280
Location: Waterloo, IL | While I was over in the Persian Gulf earlier this year with a load of Marines on the ship we had several Marines with Ovations onboard. They took them along in their trucks when they hit the beach to head into Iraq. When we returned stateside we brought the Marines, guitars and all, back to the states with us. | |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 1380
Location: Central Oregon | That is a nice gesture. I'm sure every little bit of support for our people helps morale. Two guitars is a lot better than no guitars :)
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Joined: May 2002 Posts: 3005
Location: Las Cruces, NM | Maybe there is a chance for a compny to support our troops with a few guitars without worrying about whether they were going to get "recognized", that private that gets blown away doesn't get much recognition but if he can get his hands on a guitar when he's not out there risking his life, he might find a few minutes of relaxation that only a guitar will bring. If you want to help the troops, help the grunts, not the Colonel looking for career enhancement, he doesn't have to expose his "career" body to gunfire, he leaves that up to the grunts who were too damn dumb to get sent to college by their wealthy daddy and therefore get a commission gauranteeing that if you survive being a platoon leader you can survive and prosper (and only the Marine Platoon leaders don't survive, a great percentage of Army ones go on to stellar careers, while the grunts they commanded come home in body bags), The grunt chances are to expose his body over and over and, if he survives, go home to friends who say, "How was your vacation in Iraq, we saw Colonel so and so playing an Ovation on TV, I guess it was a lot of fun with those guitar companies giving you free guitars while you sat around jamming in those safe mess tents. Bull shit, don't try to tell me you weren't in a safe mess tent, I saw it on TV"
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