I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, FA Crusaders.
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It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.
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The New Crusade
LIFE is a trifle;
Honor is all;
Shoulder the rifle;
Answer the call.
'A nation of traders'!
We'll show what we are,
Freedom's crusaders
Who war against war.
Battle is tragic;
Battle shall cease;
Ours is the magic
Mission of Peace.
'A nation of traders'!
We'll show what we are,
Freedom's crusaders
Who war against war.
Gladly we barter
Gold of our youth
For Liberty's charter
Blood-sealed in truth.
'A nation of traders'!
We'll show what we are,
Freedom's crusaders
Who war against war.
Sons of the granite,
Strong be our stroke,
Making this planet
Safe for the folk.
'A nation of traders'!
We'll show what we are,
Freedom's crusaders
Who war against war.
Life is but passion,
Sunshine on dew.
Forward to fashion
The old world anew!
'A nation of traders'!
We'll show what we are,
Freedom's crusaders
Who war against war.
poem by Katharine Lee Bates
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Freedom Fighter
You cant control me tell me what to do
Chained in mediocrity so I can be like you
I am not a statue not part of a machine
Im sick and tired of the whole routine
Calculate your future, computerise your past
Instant replay if its gone too fast
Take away my freedom, take away my home
Im only human but it might now show
Im not made of stone
Im a freedom fighter I got something to say
Im a freedom fighter get out of my way
Hide behind your politics, hide behind your rules
Tell me Im a man but you treat me like a fool
Its the same old story with a different name
You give us all a number and nothing changes
Out in the winter of a world upon its knees
Everyone is watching but no one sees
You cant take my freedom you know it is my right
If you try and stop me Im gonna fight
With all of my might
Im a freedom fighter and Im taking command
Im a freedom fighter and Im making a stand
Fighting for breath as the world gathers speed
Times running out for the things that I need
Im a freedom fighter I gotta take a stand
Im a freedom fighter, yeah thats what I am
Im a freedom fighter I cant take it no more
Im a freedom fighter no no more
Im a freedom fighter but Im not afraid
Im a freedom fighter get out of my way.
song performed by by Rainbow
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Im A Lover Not A Fighter
Well I met a pretty girl, as pretty as can be
I thought she was my baby till she introduced to me
A great big tall fella, about six foot tall
I shivered and I shook, couldnt do any more
cause Im a lover not a fighter
Yes, Im a lover not a fighter
Yes, Im a lover not a fighter
And Im really built for speed
Built for speed
Well, some people think Im lazy but theres one thing they dont know
cause when Im in the mood I can go caddy[? ] go
cause Im a lover not a fighter
Yes, Im a lover not a fighter
Yes, Im a lover not a fighter
And Im really built for speed
Built for speed
Built for speed
Whoa yeah
Well I can roar like a lion, I can sting like a bee
But some times I think, baby, Ive got rabbit blood in me
cause Im a lover not a fighter
Yes, Im a lover not a fighter
Yes, Im a lover not a fighter
And Im really built for speed
Built for speed
Built for speed
Whoa yeah
song performed by by Kinks
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Officer Blue
Officer blue,
Really love the things you do,
Even when I was just eight years.
Officer blue,
Is it true what they say?
That when you work youre still at play.
Oh officer blue,
I really love the things you do.
Its magical,
People in a human zoo.
Officer blue,
Cast a shadow on the wall,
But by torchlight even mice look tall.
Officer blue,
In a blaze of uniform,
And your stripes and badges to conform.
Officer blue,
Really love the things you do,
Even when I was just eight years old.
Officer blue,
Is it true what they say?
That when you work youre still at play.
song performed by by Xtc
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Officer Blue
Officer blue,
Really love the things you do,
Even when I was just eight years.
Officer blue,
Is it true what they say?
That when you work youre still at play.
Oh officer blue,
I really love the things you do.
Its magical,
People in a human zoo.
Officer blue,
Cast a shadow on the wall,
But by torchlight even mice look tall.
Officer blue,
In a blaze of uniform,
And your stripes and badges to conform.
Officer blue,
Really love the things you do,
Even when I was just eight years old.
Officer blue,
Is it true what they say?
That when you work youre still at play.
song performed by by Xtc
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Supersonic Rocket Ship
Let me take you on a little trip
My supersonic ships at your disposal
If you feel so inclined. well alright.
Were gonna travel faster than light
So do up your overcoat tight
And youll go anywhere you want to decide. well alright.
Too many people side by side
Got no place to hide.
On my supersonic rocket ship
Nobody has to be hip
Nobody needs to be out of sight. out of sight.
Nobodys gonna travel second class
Therell be equality
And no suppression of minorities. well alright.
Well take this planet, shake it round
And turn it upside down.
My supersonic rocket ship.
It aint no magic, aint no lie,
Youll laugh so loud youll cry.
Up and down, round and round
On my supersonic rocket ship.
Let me take you on a little trip
My supersonic ships at your disposal
If you feel so inclined. well alright.
Nobodys gonna travel second class
Therell be equality
And no suppression of minorities. well alright.
Let me take you on a little trip
On my supersonic rocket ship.
song performed by by Kinks
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Just One More Cigarette...
It is evening they take him out of his cell and into
the walled court yard. An officer offers him a fag
he accepts, and smokes it slowly inhaling deeply.
The officer says, “don’t worry it will soon be over. “
Then they tie his hands behind his back, blindfold
him and place him against a pockmarked wall.
The officer asks if the prisoner, has a last word,
a message to the world or his family. The damned
shakes his head, a long silence, and a volley of fire.
Today, after being told by my doctor I’m an idiot,
I have stopped smoking.
poem by Oskar Hansen
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Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
quote by Budd Schulberg
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I've never actually been a fighter myself - fighting tires me out and I'm not an efficient fighter anyway - but I have certainly seen other people have great complicated goes at one another.
quote by Margaret Mahy
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When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.
quote by Adolf Galland
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Modern Crusaders
(m.cretu.)
.
Dont look back
The time has come
All the pain turns into love
Were not submissive, were not aggressive
But they think we cant defend
Stand up, join us, modern crusaders alive
We have the power to face the future
Cause we are the fighters
Just fighting for our rights
Theyre accusing, like always without knowing
What is just fiction or what is the truth
They have no mission, they have no passion
But they dare to tell us whats bad and whats good!
Stand up, join us, modern crusaders alive
We have the power wholl face the future
Cause we are the fighters
Just fighting for our fights
Est affectus
Et defectus
Semper in angaria.
Quod per sortem
Sternit fortem,
Mecum omnes plangite!
Nunc obdurat
Et tunc curat
Ludo mentis aciem,
Egestatem,
Potestatem
(translation:
Drive on
And weighted down,
Always enslaved.
Since fate
Strikes down the strong man,
Everyone weep with me!
First oppresses
And then soothes
As fancy takes it;
Poverty,
Power )
Stand up, join us, modern crusaders alive
We have the power wholl face the future
Cause we are the fighters
Just fighting for our fights
Stand up, join us, modern crusaders alive!
song performed by by Enigma
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Sonnets of the Empire: Hawk
Great sea dog, fighter in the great old way!
What though thy ships were tinder, and the pest
Rotted thy ruffian crews that need had prest,
And all thy keels were clogged with foul decay,
Yet through the roaring months thy squadron lay
A watch-dog eager at the throat of Brest
While all the ocean smote her from the West
And all the tempests tore her in their play.
Thy soul was of the whirlwind, and thy cry
Still leaps from out the crash of guns and waves
To hurl us headlong on the foeman’s van,
As in the Bay of Death, ’mid breakers high
And felon reefs whereo’er the Atlantic raves,
Thy flagship foremost into glory ran.
poem by Archibald Thomas Strong
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My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.
quote by Ryan Reynolds
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In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.
quote by Lawrence Eagleburger
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Red Tails.
Sixty seven years since the war,
Never heard of them or the story before.
A well kept secret of history,
The airmen of Tuskegee.
They were the 'Red Tails' fighter squadron,
An author stated, "As secret as the Atom Bomb."
The U.S set up an all 'Negro' squadron in secret,
Total segregation, the 'experiment' had to be separate.
Scepticism was rife, it was expected to fail,
Racism was blowing in full sail.
"They are not capable to fly, let alone fight,
Morally and mentally inferior, they have no bite."
Training was complete, preparation done,
Reality to meet, prove the doubters wrong.
Despatched to the front in Europe, Italy,
To their all 'Afro-American' base at Romatelli.
Pilots, cooks, mechanics, commanders on the base,
All had a 'non-white' face.
Orders and briefings, tactics and formations,
Courage and bravery on the missions.
Equally brave as the others, like their 'white brothers.'
Escorting the bombers over enemy territory.
Fulfilling their duty against tyranny.
They had earned a reputation,
Bomber crews requested their protection.
One of their kind shot down, out he had bailed,
All his fellow pilots, to see they had failed.
They all thought 'presumed dead', gone,
One of many lost fighting for freedom.
However he didn't perish, never died,
His Mustang 51, upside down, he 'fell' out and survived!
Captured and imprisoned for remainder of the war,
Liberated and on a ship, home he headed for.
Sailing past the statue of liberty,
A welcome and proud sight to see.
Crowds and flag waving on the dock side,
Cheering and shouts filled him with pride.
From the ship he was about to disembark,
Then reality hit him like a stab in the heart.
There were to be no gratitude or thanks,
As he approached the gang planks.
Pride and patriotism was suddenly not there,
Kicked in the teeth, hard to bare.
The sign stated, 'Whites to the left, Blacks to the right.'
He had returned back home to the 'old fight',
Back to the racism, where life was prejudiced,
To 'land of the free' where for a period he had missed.
332, fighter group squadron proved their metal,
112, of the the Nazi foes fate they did 'settle'!
The war had finished, their missions had ended.
All bar 27, bombers they had defended.
Fighting for freedom,66, were lost of their own,
Survivors still had to fight for freedom when they got home!
18/10/12
poem by Guy Lipmore
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Better Ending
I use to think that we would be together forever
But you have proven that would never happen
It does hurt to know that we are not together
But I know in the end it is probably for the best
All we did was fight and fight
I am a fighter when I need to be
But I should not be a fighter in my relationship
I am sorry it ended like this
However it needed to end
If it didnt end this way
It would of been worse
poem by Makayla Straight
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Well, mines was a sub machine gun. That was my personal weapon with being the first person in the patrol. I used to lead the patrol. Used to have a leading scout, a second scout and then the officer. The officer would be third. As I say, it was educational.
quote by David Walker
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Camera Obscura
(m.cretu.)
In reverse mode
Cause we are the fighters
Just fighting for our rights
Stand up, join us, modern crusaders alive
We have the power...
Were not submissive, were not aggressive
But they think...
Stand up, join us, modern crusaders alive
We have the power...
. sors salutis
Et virtutis
Michi nunc contraria
Hac in hora
Sine nora
Cordum pulsum tangite;
Quod per sortem
Sternit fortem,
Mecum omnes plangite!
(translation:
Fate, in health
And virtue,
Is against me
So at this hour
Without delay
Pluck the vibrating strings;
Since fate
Strikes down the strong man,
Everyone weep with me! )
song performed by by Enigma
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Renegade Fighter
Can i walk up beside you
can i speak your name
can i speak in anger
can i speak in shame
can i just be here
CHOURS:
I'm a lover
i'm a winner
i'm a fighter
gonna set your soul on fire.
I'm a lover
i'm a renegade fighter
come and set your soul on fire.
I'm a lover
i'm a sinner
i'm a fighter
gonna set your soul on fire.
I'm a lover im a renegade fighter
come and set your sould on fire.
Can i sit in silence
can i speak your name
can i just be here
can you find the pieces
that i can rearrange
can i just be here
REPEAT CHOURS
Now that it's clear you don't have to worry at all.
Now that it's clear you turn.....what you take in
x2
REPEAT CHOURS x2
song performed by by Zed
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