WE FEW, WE BAND OF BROTHERS!

APR has a special shout out to veterans on this Veterans Day.

“From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother”

In honor of all Vets, APR is going to list APR's own list of inspirational Vets.

Band of Brothers (101st Airborne 506th Easy Company)

Too many to name but they were all heroes. So just watch the HBO mini-series. APR wants to one day go to the Chattahoochee National Forest (I bet some Native American told the white explorer the name as a joke. I think it means “white mans wife is easy but won’t stop talking” in Native Americanize) and run the Currahee Mountain.

"3 Miles up, 3 Miles down" Currahee!!!

Scotty AKA James Montgomery "Jimmy" Doohan

Yes I know you’re saying that APR went over to his nerd side again and is promoting some actor who played an engineer and isn’t even American on Veteran’s Day. All APR has to say is read the following:

Jimmy was at D-Day on Juno beach as part of 3rd Canadian Infantry Division, where he shot two snipers. Doohan led his unit to higher ground through a field of anti-tank mines and took defensive positions for the night. Doohan took six rounds from a Bren gun, four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger. The bullet to his chest was halted by the silver cigarette case he carried, and his wounded right middle finger was amputated. Despite his injuries, Doohan remained in the military, trained as a pilot and flew an artillery observation plane.

This was all before he became an actor and the greatest engineer ever!

Bob Kalsu


I need to step out of character and just say going to the same school as his kids I never knew what their dad did and what his children had to face. So I won’t really be in APR mode for this part. Just go to the link and read the SI article about why we should all be grateful of the sacrifices of people like Bob Kalsu and his family.

http://vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1023026/index.htm

Okay back to APR mode.

Since APR just depressed the hell out of everyone, APR next Vet hero is Gunny!

Staff Sergeant “Gunny” R. Lee Ermey

Not only did he play a drill instructor for the Marines in the movies he was a real life drill instructor and severed 14 months in Vietnam. APR has no real evidence but APR thinks he was responsible for making the VC SH*T their pants and as part of the Geneva Convention he had to leave Vietnam because he was the first and greatest weapon of mass destruction.

Hoo Yah! Semper Fi!

Going Green Part ? whatever I’m tired now…

Media sucks ASS… F-you media… You spoon feed us crap all the time and we take it!!!!

Gunny what do you think about the Media?

The media is like the type of guy that would F a person in the ass and not even have the G-D common courtesy to give him a reach-around.

F Yeah Gunny!!!

Also shut your F-ing pie hole Al Gore!!!

Semper Fi!

Olympics (final rant)

China spent $40 billion on the Olympics. People complained about China cheating, their human rights, and restrictions and of course their competition with the USA.

But you know what?

I would rather have China spend $40 billion on the Olympics vs. Russia spending $40 billion on tanks.

What would happen if China spent that money on their military? I’m thinking Taiwain and Japan would be crapping their pants now.

Also all this talk of China taking over the world won’t work because China has accepted dumb ass Western culture and will become a large bastion of rappers and obesity. If you don’t believe me look at the following.

Once again APR would rather take on bad rapping Asians than a Russian tank any day.

Gunny how do you feel about China?

China is full of G-D communist heathen!

So true Gunny, so true…

Death in a Movie

Have you seen a movie where someone dies that is so moving that you try and block it out of your mind?

Movies like Bambi, Titanic, and Star Wars.

You recall the joy of the characters performance with fond memories and just block out their death. For a long time I’ve been blocking out this characters death so much so that I had forgot that he died. Then one night you’re watching TV and the scene comes up. You watch with horror as they die again and you realized that you’ve been blocking it out for all these years and it hits you like a Mac truck.

You think to yourself, was there a dream sequence in the movie or maybe this is the directors cut?

So whose death is so traumatic for APR to have such a shocking experience?

Why I’m taking about Gunny from Full Metal Jacket.

When he died I wanted to scream...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Stupid F-ing Pyle!!!! Why did you shoot Gunny? Why Pyle!!!!

I think that Stanley Kubrick’s point of Full Metal Jacket was if Gunny wasn’t killed America would have won the war in Vietnam.

This movie also had some great sound bits and phrases:

Me so horny.

Me love you long time.

But my favorite is still the opening with Gunny.

So from now on Gunny will be the official representative of APR!!!

Also if you can’t get enough of Gunny you can find R. Lee Ermey doing a lot of voice work in cartoons and playing a military/law enforcement character in movies.

Here’s my favorite non military Gunny moment from Saving Silverman.

Coach Norton: Remember, boys! STAY AWAY from women! All they want from you is your man-juice! If you ever get the kind of urges that cannot be suppressed by hard liquor, then use this! [showing them his right hand]