What did you get for Christmas?

Yeah, I don't know why, but Ryan (the one in Afghanistan) has been a huge "Longhorns" fan since he was just a little boy. His mom once speculated that it was because he was conceived in Texas. We were at Ft. Sam Houston and I was going to the Special Operations Medical Sgt's Course. My wife fell in love with San Antonio.

That was the first time since Ryan was home on pre-deployment leave that I'd been in his room. I looked around and noticed all the little things and they pretty much summed up who he is. He loves hot women, rock and roll, fast cars, the Marine Corps, playing the guitar and the Texas Longhorns.

P.S. I like the Long Gun!

 

I got engaged this Christmas!

 

USMCPrice....thank those boys of yours for their service...my family and I appreciate the sacrifices they make. Glad you had a great Christmas...hoping your son comes home safe and soon.

 

Good for you, but better you than me!

I've been engaged six times.

 

Congrats! A good woman is hard to find, I hope you two share many years of happiness together. I've been married to mine for 27+ years now, and she's the best thing that ever happened to me.

 

Kinda' like fishing, they managed to hook you but couldn't reel you in?

 

If you'd quit being lazy and dig a deeper hole they wouldn't keep getting out!!!

 

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are!

 

Fahrenheit after shave, a chocolate box, a pair of wool socks.

I bought myself for me:

E-Boats and Coastal Craft by Paul Beaver
Patrick Stephens Ltd. 1981

Feldherrnhalle - Forgotten Elite
Shelf Books 1996

Der Adler - Heft 18/ Berlin, 31. August 1943

Der Adler - Heft 1/ Berlin, 4. Januar 1944

 

Thanks guys mean a lot... Pretty big step in my life!

She is a special person, she has to be if shes ready to spend the rest of her life with this guy!

 

Enjoy this time while you can my little pachyderm because before you know it you'll be wondering where all your stuff went. During my last 16 years of marriage I think I have spent 8 of those years either looking for my pocket knife or my shoes; women can not stand see something lying idle in a position of readiness and that includes you!

I have had many a Saturday morning disrupted, as I was waiting for the zombie apocalypse or some other manor of conflagration to erupt, by the phrase: "Are you just going to lay there all day." Obviously women are more concerned with a clean garage than they are a well rested protector from the dark forces of evil and chaos.

You also might want to get into the habit of checking to make sure there is toilet paper before you are in the most vulnerable repose.

 

I got a xbox 360 kinetic a jacket and some books and clothes...... not much

 

I got a M1 2nd Rangers helmet, a US canteen, a Vietnam complete medic kit, NCAA football 2011, and with my Christmas money I bought a US Navy PO3 uniform and some other things.

 

Some folks never learn!

 

Sadly, I didnt receive anything from anyone else. Instead, I got myself several books;
An Enormous Crime(the Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia)-Bill Hendon
The Pentagon Papers-George C Herring
Kiss the Boys Goodbye(How the US Betrayed its Own POWs in Vietnam)-Monika & William Stevenson
Hitler's Master of the Dark Arts-Bill Yenne
Black Edelweiss-Johann Voss
Men of Steel, the Devil's Adjutant, and Sons of the Reich-Michael Reynolds

Why Im not broke because of Amazon and Barnes and Nobles Ill never know....

 

Sloniksp, always remember Charlton Heston's secret for a happy marriage.

-The four magic words: "Honey, I was wrong".

 

No, I was always chasing the ones I shouldn't have been chasing and not being satisfied with the ones I caught for very long. Same old story. At least I have all my stuff though!