Read the Q & A under Military put ou by IvaNN.The question is:How many Mexican-Americans celebrated Veterans?
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I agree with Roch. I served in the Marine Corps and had many Marines from all walks of life that I am proud to call my Brother. All Mexican-Americans should celebrate along with all who enjoy the blanket of security that our military gives us on a continuous basis.
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That is SO wonderful.  THANK YOU!  This country needs more people to step up and be proud enough of their country that they are willing to fight for our rights.  That's what this country was made of.  People volunteering to protect and serve.  Thank You, you are doing a huge service to us all!!!
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buddy i am a vet, two tours in iraq. and i want to thank you for saying such a good american thing and having the courage to post it here. i finished my military sevice couple of weeks ago and people like you are the reason we can keep going. even though our wives leave us, we lose most of our money, never get to see our kids born and miss thier birthdays. it helps to know there are still people left that have a love for this nation we serve. its hard to put up with the things we do and most every morning we'd rather stay in bed. thanks for makeing getting up every morning worth something good. my name is sgt curtis wellman, 6 years usmc 3 years us army
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Desert Shadow - I am the son of a Nam Vet.  My Dad served in the Navy.  He was stationed in De Nang.  My co-worker is retired army who was in Nam.  I love to hear his war stories but they are very gut wrenching.  He was on officer in Tactical Zone II with Black Ops & MIKE forces.  The operations & recons that he went on, I hate to say it are like movie scripts to me.  Shadow, you guys had your hands tied by the idiots in Washington, but I support all military troops & the war they fought (and are fighting)!  Sincerely - THANK YOU for your service!!
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A simple statistical analysis of the answers to a random sampling of your questions regarding 'Mexicans/immigration' yielded the following results:\n\nThose who agree with PANCHA:\n19%\n\nThose with neutral viewpoints:\n11%\n\nThose who disagree with PANCHA:\n70%\n\nI think it's safe to conclude that most people, at least those who post on YA, disagree with where you stand on this topic.  Even IF you were able to persuade the 11% neutral vote to agree with you, you would still be outnumbered by over 2-to-1.  What does this mean:  It means:\n\n...No one is buying into your repetitive rhetoric!...\n\nI admire your 'pluck', and I mean that sincerely, but at this point any question you pose with regard to this issue is just an exercise in futility; in other words,... it's a waste of your time.  \n\nSo, please, take your own advice, and GET A LIFE.
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Now Now Chef daddy , dont start cooking up stories,\nLike what more f 'ed up, Nam or Rak. (Rak is hort for Iraq) so wise up, cause they have appointed a senate comittee to find out, and a sub committee to find out if the committee is finding out, and yet another sub sub committee to find out if the sub committee is findin........................................... and so on.\n\nAnd you expect answers in a jiffy,\nMy grand uncle has a bullet in the butt from Nam, and his grand son has a bullet in the front in Rak, they are now both lame ducks, Grand uncle was a gay and his butt is now a butt of contention.\nGrandson was a play boy and his poly has been pecked, \nfor them both its an equally f 'ed up situation.\nFor GBW, he doesn't know, and he doesn't care. cause in Nam ,? he wasn't there.\n\nWait for the committee's report, meanwhile heres some Data.\nLives lost in Nam. 735,698 males 128, 236 females, 345,210 Children.\nLives lost in Rak . 735,699 males 128, 235 females, 345,211 Children.\n\nOf Us of A, the count is still on,\nHeard the only thing Rak Lacks is a Rambo so there is a study group sent there with Steven Speilberg to figure out.\nand of Course, Rambo has declined to be relocated cause he has hernia.
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By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer 5 minutes ago \nWASHINGTON - \nPersonal data, including\nSocial Security numbers of 26.5 million U.S. veterans was stolen from a Veterans Affairs employee this month after he took the information home without authorization, the department said Monday. \nLast year, more than 260,000 veterans could not sign up for services because of cost-cutting. Audits also have shown the agency used misleading accounting methods and lacked documentation to prove its claimed savings."\n\nWell, this administration appears to have issues without having anything stolen.\n\nThose in the service 1975 and after are many military who were in quite a few skirmishes that the government had, including those in Iraq.\n\nI hope they have hard copies somewhere, which they probably don't. Proving a negative is going to be hard for a lot of men who are eligible for benefits. How do you get benefits if you can't prove you are eligible for them? It will be up to the serviceman to prove, Hate to be them.\n\n26.5 MILLION RECORDS from 1975 to present
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To all the veterans and to those serving America now, I thank you for your sacrifice, for your courage, and for your willingness to do whatever your country asked of you.  And to the families I honor you too for your sacrifice was also great.  God bless our veterans, our service men and women and their families.  God bless America!
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immigration. well i am full blooded Mexican American. my father was in Vietnam, grandfathers in world war II, I struggle to get to pay bills. hard to find a decent job. but i manage and tell my daughter how great this country is every day. It angers  me to see Mexican nationals go to the grocery store, pay for there food, complain about sale priced items only to pay with food stamps and then to see them load it up in there escalade, or other brand new car. but yet there plates still show Mexico. they only come to complain about our society. but yet will mooch off it as much as possible. well Monday they are to do a strike. if any one is in position to fire anyone, then get those illegals and people that should remember just where you live. freedom is not free. and my family as well as many other families fought and gave life for this freedom. don't throw that though away just for people who don't deserve it. if you are American citizen, then do your part and go to work. remember where you came from and remember why people want to come to this country. long live the USA
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I think its been long forgotten....I have read it as well, and know about the violations.....Perhaps that is why there is some hidden animosity from the Mexican govt. towards the US govt....They don't want to drudge up the past, because the last thing they want is a war with US....We are neighbors....
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K-9!(ex "Former Military)! What's this?!!! I don't believe it... the statements you made sound so-o-o-o much like me. Wow!! It's so refreshing!!! I'm proud of you. People and times change but then again some people don't. I still run across some that wish they had gone to VietNam (right) and others that sure try hard to be a Wanna-be Nam vet. I know damn well what they were doing in the 60's and 70's. I was a professional soldier who bitched but only after the mission was accomplished. I enlisted, was not a draftee and did as ordered. I was a hard-ass to my men but I never let them down and nobody messed with them. I fought for them and them for me. We shared everything in our lives together at that time and I mean everything. To some I'm closer to than my own family and always will be. To the women who ignored and ridiculed us... their loss. To the one who has stood beside me for 30+ years... she deserves a medal as do all veteran wives. In 1969 I was on my second tour. I didn't appreciate the protests because I knew that most didn't comprehend what that war was about as a lot now don't. I leave my thoughts of this war in my own mind and fully support the troops who really have no choice in the matter as I didn't. They have enough to do and worry about without having to consider what the people back home are thinking as I did then. I just thank God that America still has young people who are willing to fight for others freedom as I did. We don't have the most perfect form of government as we all would like to see but out of the 45 foreign countries I've been to it's still the best and that flag, the piece of cloth, so many disgrace is still the most beautiful one that I have ever seen for I realize what it took to fly it and to keep it flying. Most women...don't!
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i have a feeling that even if they lost that battle, they would still celebrate. it gives them yet another reason to drink and be lazy. not that they need a reason, they are mexican, theyll do that anyways. teehee. im going to get hate mail arent i?
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USMC.  "The 1st to land, the 1st to fight".  This is in no way to disrespect the other branches of service and those who served within them.  However, my deceased uncle was awarded 2 purple hearts and a medal of valor in the Pacific Theater of WWII.  My father was awarded the same in Korea.  What really "cuts to the bone" is their experiences in combat.  They saw more "sh*t" by the age of 20, then you and I could ever dream of in a lifetime.  I vividly remember their recollections each and every time I go to the polling place.  As much as I hate to want to vote on occassion, I do so in their honor.  I am of a firm belief that The Almighty has a special place in His Kingdom for the likes of these men and women who sacrificed their innonence and their lives and limbs in the name of freedom, no matter what country they came from.  So do the right thing on Memorial Day and just thank a Veteran.
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didn't the Canadians start this?  whats good for the goose is good for the gander.  every Friday we should do something more profound.  lets see, the immigrants had a big protest. what if we did that every Friday.  skipped work and protested all day long outside federal and state government offices.  that would make a statement.  but I'm afraid that the consequences would be to great for most people to try.  but how much do you really care about our troops and our country.  one man can't do much, but a nation certainly can.
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somebody said about no real jobs and the mexicans issue. This anyway doesnt apply on me I am not mexican, but why I cant find a decent Job. I have my education and i am sure not because of the mexicans but because of the OUTSOURCING. My Job aswell of many other vanished for some CHEAP LABOR overseas (india and china), The issue of the illegal immigrant has been  a problem since forever, but why now it was erupted? Because the Big companies are laying off people left and right, and outsourcing the jobs of others, maybe they knew some retaliation will happen so they erupt and paid money in millions to let media concentrate on mexicans.\n\nBeside that someone said the 300.000 on welfare.... Did you trach how many are not mexicans on welfare and they are capable of working but they dont want to do anything beside selling crack on the streets and hang out arround. You know how many are those? MANYYYY.\n\nWhat about the war thats is not OURS!!! war expense everyday was estimated of 100 millions. Gaz for vehicles, food for soldiers, etc... What we have to do with irakians problems? why we still there? thats beside everyday we lose one or 2 soldiers. These are humans !!! THATS where you lose Money!!!\n\nAnd for those who said now we have laws about immigration I am afraid that you missed totally the point of the person who asked this question. He mentioned the settlers as a prove that all white, yellow, black, brown except what called red indians are IMMIGRANT. You accept that fact or not, this country history return back to 300 to 400 years max. \n\nAnyway americans are offensive to newly immigrant? yes but because of some rules in some companies about zero tolerance against discrimination they dont say it out loud. btw If the americans didnt descriminate against others based on their origin...why there is a law prohibit the descrimination !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:35 PM \n\nSubject: VIDEO: HISPANICS ADMIT THEY ARE ENGAGED IN "CIVIL WAR" WITHIN THE UNITED STATES\n\nSource: \n\nImmigration Watchdog \n\nhttp://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/...\n\nThey openly state they have "The armor, the infantry and the artillery" to wage war here.This video PROVES beyond any doubt, the people marching in our streets under Mexican and other foreign flags, over pending immigration legislation, are engaged in a WAR against our nation.The U.S. Government has failed its duty to protect this land from these invaders; invaders who are openly stating they intend to takeover a portion of this land and carve out their own "Mestizo nation of Aztlan."\n\nClick below to play the video \n\n     http://tinyurl.com/pqzpe \n\nRead The STORY-Watch The VIDEO-Decide For Yourself
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40 Marine NCO's were involved in the battle for Chatulpetec Castle along with greater numbers of US Army against 750 Mexican  soldiers and 250 military cadets as young as 13, A myth evolved as to a Red Stripe Marine NCO's have on their "Dress Blue" trousers; supposedly commemorating the Marine NCO's bloody fight there. \n\nDuring the battle, six Mexican military cadets refused to fall back when General Bravo finally ordered retreat, and fought to the death against superior U.S. forces. One by one they fell, fighting for their country; when one was left (Juan Escutia), and the US forces about to kill him, he grabbed the Mexican flag, wrapped it around himself and jumped off the castle point.\n\nAn aide to Mexican Commanding General Santa Anna's  witnessing the mass Mexican Army's retreat exclaimed, "God is a Yankee"!\n\nAfterwards the Marines were ordered to guard the Halls of Montezuma ~ Thus "The Marine Hymn"