No Country for Old Men?

[4est_4est_Gump]

Both of these men [Walt Kowalski and Ben Mitchell] are fictional characters, but is it just fantasy? Let us look back at Samuel Whittemore. Samuel was an old man -- seventy-eight years old, to be exact -- on April 19, 1775. After many years of service bearing arms for the British Crown, surely he was too old to fight, and his wife even told him so. On that fateful morning, though, he gathered up his musket, two pistols, and a cavalry saber that he acquired from a French officer who "died suddenly" and took his place to meet the British Regulars in Menotomy. When it was over, the British thought they were fired upon by a whole company and sent the same to subdue him. After dispatching some British Regulars by emptying his musket and pistols and drawing his sword, he had half his face shot off and was bayoneted thirteen times and left for dead. Samuel did indeed die -- ten years later.

There is also David Lamson, a mulatto voted by his peers to take charge of a group of gray-haired old men. On that same morning, they surprised one of General Percy's supply columns, asking them to surrender. Seeing just a few old men, the British refused, leading to Lamson's men shooting the officer, the sergeant, and the horses in their traces. The remaining grenadiers fled, finally surrendering to old Mother Batherick after throwing their arms away. Hearing about this, a British paper printed, "If one old Yankee woman can take six grenadiers, how many soldiers will it require to conquer America?"

There are over twenty-five million veterans in the United States -- among them many Walt Kowalskis -- and most of them are gun owners. Some of them remember the horrors of the concentration camps and of communism. Others are from the Vietnam era and remember what awaited them when they came home. They see John Kerry, the same man who threw his medals over the White House fence and was photographed with Jane Fonda and the North Vietnamese, nominated as secretary of state. They remember. ObamaCare, where you get painkillers instead of treatment because you are old? They have heard this. They have been spat at and vilified before, and now, with time running out for them, and the America that they knew seemingly fading away, many will say, "At one time, I was asked to write a check to my country for up to and including my life. Do I need to do it again?"

You would be surprised at what you can overhear at the VFW, or even the "early bird dinner," for that matter. Thanks to the "War on Terror," there are also many younger combat veterans, many from a lineage of soldiers. They know that old people can be stubborn, and "the government threw grandpa in jail because he didn't turn in his guns" will not go over well. As an older friend of mine whom I see at Denny's on occasion tells me, "I'm just sayin'."

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/dangerous_old_men.html#ixzz2HlV5BQ3e

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Are you still on my lawn???

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Are you insulting my grenade launcher?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Don't scratch the paint, Bitch!!!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I wonder if my new truck will come with the ornamental automatic hood latch and engine muff (warmer)...



I wonder if it comes in red...



Hmmm...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Mine has no hood ornament, unlike Hickey's Pierce Arrow:

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

When cars used to be cars and caddies had fins...



:nostalgia:

 

[Wat_Tyler]

More like when Caddies had V16's . . . .

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Time to go regale the whippersnapper with stories of old-time Gongfu fighting...



Then I will make him work on my lawn.

 

[LadyVer]

First two paragraphs were good.

 

[unregistered]

 

[cheesehead2]

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/01/dangerous_old_men.html#ixzz2HlV5BQ3e

THANKS.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Why?



Are you an old man?


GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Love what you did with the shrubberies!!!​

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Shhh..., you don't want Jenn14 to hear you...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

She went surfing:

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Sweet!


Ultra sleek. I could see myself in something like that!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

All it needs is a gun rack for the Thompson!


And I'll need a good hat, one with a rakish slant that says, "I'm off to pick up my Goomah..."

 

[Wat_Tyler]

With your New York brim
and your gold tooth displayed,
Nobody's gonna fuck with ya
cuz they know you got it made.


You're bad . . . you're nationwide . . . .

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Get me out of Chinatown
Get me out of Chinatown
I don't like what's going down
So get me out of Chinatown

See the big man dressed in ladies clothes, he looks really rude
I guess he forgot to look at himself when he was in the nude
Jeff and Jimmy had to laugh when the he/she lost his hair
Rolled up in the cadillac's window that left him standing there

 

[Wat_Tyler]

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

*chuckle*


:ditto:

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I suddenly feel a need to go . . . furthur . . . .

 

[Bidin~Time]

First two paragraphs were good.

Just because you didn't agree with the last 2, doesn't mean they don't include valid questions/points.

 

[Bidin~Time]

I suddenly feel a need to go . . . furthur . . . .

It needs a partridge family paintjob