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Mamas, Make Sure Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys/girls

by Catgic May 14, 2006 11:31PM PDT

With Mother?s Day behind us, the next M-Day in May is just two weeks away. Our Mawz gave us life, but our veteran boys and girls gave and continue to give there lives and limbs to keep us free. Lest We Forget Patriot Veterans who bore and continue to bear true faith and allegiance to the cause of global freedom, it is not too early to begin your Memorial Day reflection on their past and ongoing sacrifices.

I stumbled across the following site and submit its link to you for Memorial Day reflection. The To Everybody Back Home poem that heads the web page is a particularly good one. I also enjoyed the note from one of my Navy Aviator Shipmates that follows it.

My Maw never listened to anybody, not even Willy Nelson, so she raised her Wild Bunch, consisting of my six brothers and me, to be Cowboys. Therefore, I especially liked the poem entitled They Call My President A Cowboy

Enjoy? http://www.electricscotland.com/familytree/standup6.htm JP Cool

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JP, I'm privileged to be the 1st to tell you...
by Jack Ammann May 15, 2006 2:02AM PDT

...the site to which you linked is absolutely fantastic. And I am very appreciative of you putting it up on this forum. It's especially refreshing and uplifting to read such totally positive stuff instead of the negative doom and gloom trash that usually comprises most of the posts in this forum.

Thanks, again and my very best to you and yours,

Jack

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(NT) (NT) I'll second that !!!!
by Angeline Booher May 15, 2006 3:05AM PDT
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Yeehaw!
by Catgic May 15, 2006 3:54AM PDT

Yeehaw! It is only fitting that it would be a Texas Cowboy who drew his first breath of air in San Antonio, who?d be the first one to respond to my e-musings on those who have saddled up in defense of our country.

That white hat sure looks good on you, partner. JP Cool

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''Real'' cowboys
by MarciaB May 15, 2006 3:07AM PDT

Right here where I was born and raised in South Central Oregon, and have returned to raise my own children, the concept of a ''real'' cowboy is an important part of our everyday life and economy.

A cowboy may not make alot of money, but he makes an honest living at what he does. He may drive a pickup truck that is old and dirty, and his hat and boots may have several layers of dirt and cow$h!t on it, but that is expected and understood as part of his life.

A cowboy will look a man in the eye as he shakes his hand. He will always open the door for a lady or pull out her chair and refer to her as ''ma'am'' with the utmost of respect. He will shake your hand and make a ''gentleman's agreement'' that is as solid as any contract gone through a court system (or more so).

I live where the 1.3 million acre ZX Ranch of ''ranching fame'' is located. This is where Kenny Rogers, in 1979, filmed the documentary ''The American Cowboy.''

I know cowboys (;)).

The ''real'' ones are a good sort of folk.

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and they can touch that place inside us too
by jonah jones May 15, 2006 4:18AM PDT
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