A new pic of Madison and company has been put in.... It's kind of fuzzy but you
can still see the weeone...  SF- SK1

Boon ... That's a right purty back button from
the Outpost ! Thanks !<br><br>"The Few" told me I
"cheated" when I "voted" from your page today. It's that
message that says they recorded my ISP in the last hour
-- but I had not been there since yesterday. Go
figure ! Maybe they are tired of my "cookies". Maybe
they are getting ready for National Egg Salad Week.
Who knows ???<br><br>Tony -- Are you SURE you and
Maria are not Italian ? Maybe Austritalian ? -- Good to
see you again too ... and people DO tell me I'm a
good " FO " ... guess in this instance, it stands for
Finding Outstanding ... people that is ! <br><br>Tony ...
about the hatch to Revetment ... I can't get in from
your home page. Sorry to be a pain ...but can you post
a direct link in he links to the page where all of
your poems are listed ?<br><br>I had the same
situation with the hatch to Boon's Outpost from his home
page and I'm still not certain what the problem is. My
head be hurtin' !<br><br>Just for fun ... I.. um ...
put my ... um .. picture on my profile. Note the
headgear in Marine Corps Scarlet. *LOL*<br><br>Happy
Easter all and may your baskets always be
full!<br><br>af<br>ee<br>Just a basket case !

Yep, and it is an awesome poem, very true , it
was a time when we had to draw stength from each
other, more than any other time before or since. I could
understand how a re-union could cause Old Salts, to slip
back into their youth...S/F Boon

I'm pretty certain that I posted this at the
former ... but it is interesting how it fits
now.<br><br>I wrote this in 1993 after volunteering at a Combat
Veterans' Reunion - my first.
<br><br>af<br>ee<br><br>---------------------------------------<br><br><br>NOW &
THEN<br>Impressions from a Combat Veterans'
Reunion<br><br>They touched,<br>they laughed and cried together
then,<br>as boys who must be men.<br><br>From here and
there,<br>now far beyond there ken,<br>Just boys who must be
men.<br><br>So young, so tough<br>proved time and time
again,<br>not boys, but truly men.<br><br>They shared<br>They
fought as brothers, more than friends,<br>our boys who
must be men.<br><br>All one, one all,<br>with courage
each of ten,<br>the boys who must be men.<br><br>They
touched and laughed,<br>and now became as then,<br>for
boys who must be men.<br><br><br>C/LJB,
1993<br>Originally published in Red Clay<br>The Khe Sanh Veterans'
Newsletter

Thanks Tony! Another "job well done" on the poem!<br>Amazing how things change
yet remain the same!<br>SF,<br>Mines

Well my friends, in honour of the reunion of old
and dear friends, I have posted a new (old) poem up
in The Revetment. None of you have EVER seen it
before and I hope you enjoy it. It's called "What Price
Us?" and the URL
is:<br><br><a href=http://www.geocities.com/bushranger73/whatprice.html
target=new>http://www.geocities.com/bushranger73/whatprice.html</a><br><br>Hase
a wonderful and blessed Easter Sunday over there
- ours is 3 minutes to ending.<br><br>Semper Fi
all<br>Tony

OH yeah, What Tony said, and I hope you all have a Happy Easter..BD

Mines, I'm glad you showed up, and I'm also glad you saved them old sandbags
Bro. Thanks for joining...S/F, Boon

Found my old sandbags, and my old ammo crates,now Im building my old lounge
chair!!!&lt;&lt;&lt;grin&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>SF,<br>Mines

Good to have you back mate - and front too. &lt;&lt;chuckle&gt;&gt;<br><br>Tony

Feels like I just put on a dry pair of jungle boots! Good to be back my friends
!!!<br>SF,<br>Mines

Thank you so much Boon - you have done both me
and the poem proud.<br><br>EE, good to hear from and
be with you again. I have never forgotten you; I
have much to thank you for, not the least of which was
that you invited me to Poetic Justice in the first
place. So much has happend since then and I hope that
you get a chance to visit The Revetment. There you
will find some of the results of that
introduction.<br><br>More importantly than anything else is the joy of the
"mateship" (defined in Australia as a greater, more natural,
more instinctive and stronger form of friendship) that
I have formed with Boon. It's a fair dinkum, ridgee
didge, bonza feeling I swear on me grandmas black pussy
cat 'n' straw broom.<br><br>Semper Fi<br>It sure is
good to be back home again.<br><br>Tony

Hope everyone has a great day..... SK1

Bushranger's poem Future Ambush is now posted at the Outpost.<a
href=http://www.geocities.com/b00nd0cker1999/future%20ambushed.htm
target=new>http://www.geocities.com/b00nd0cker1999/future%20ambushed.htm</a>

Thank you Lord for for the gift of salvation..I pray that each of you spend a
wonderful day with your loved ones..BW

Hey guys good to have you here...And yes this is
starting to look like home..Going to have to plan a porch
party soon. Easyecho you will still have to bring the
cookies because I STILL don't bake!!S/F BW

Well this is ScorpioKat signing off for the night join us again at the same Boon
Time, same Boon Channel!! Love Kimmy&Madison

Gotcha an open door through the Land Sea and Air EE. Wont hafta keep banging
your head on the hatch anymore...Boon

It is indeed an honor to have my best mate aboard.<br>Welcome , Welcome me
Garden gate. Looking forward to your writing, wit and witness. Semper Fi, Boon

I come from a land down under<br>where women glow
and men chunder<br><br>Stole that, but as Maria says,
These's nose place like home - smells right!<br><br>Ahoy
the HMAS Boondocker (it an international ship),
permission to come aboard, sir. We've got some boundaries to
cross, familar places to visit and uncharted seas to
explore.<br><br>"To steer the barque of this life over the seas of
passion without quitting the helm of rectitude is the
highest perfection to which human nature can attain, and
as the builder raises his column with the level and
perpendicular, so let us conduct ourselves towards this world.
To observe a due medium between avarice and
profusion, to hold the scales of justice with equal poise,
to make our passions and prejudices coincide with
the just line of our conduct and in all our pusuits,
to eternity in view."<br><br>The foregoing is
paraphrased from my favourite portion of a wonderful lecture
presented within an orgranisation to which I belong. It is
very much an excellence for which I
strive.<br><br>Good to be home again<br><br>SF<br>BR73

Welcome, Welcome, Welcome...good to have you back......Will have to put back
button on the out post so you can get back to the main page. Damn it's looking
more like home here again....S/F Boon

That Hatch cover to the outpost keeps hitting me
on the head .... @%*#&% ... got a buncha' lumps and
seeing stars !<br><br>So I added a direct link to The
Outpost in the links section. Hope that's ok.
<br><br>Question ... can I go back to the main page from the
Outpost ? I don't see a button ... but maybe that's
because of too many knocks on the head! <br><br>af<br>ee

I took the "easy" way in! *LOL* and I'm on my way
to the back porch again. Is it Lemonade weather yet
?<br><br>What's that John Denver song that goes "Gee, it's good
to be back home again ?<br><br>Boy ... I missed the
pickin' and strummin' ... and the good company
!<br><br>Have dinner plans with Mike's former "Skipper" so
gotta' go do my thang ... but will be back later or
tomorrow, depending on the hour of return !<br><br>See ya'
( Yiiiiiiippeeeeeeee ! )<br><br>af<br>ee<br><br>bw
... magic is right !

Some friendly faces again. Welcome back Snake,
BW, ScorpioKat! Hope this place loads up again, it
used to be a real special place to be. maybe it can
regain some of the old magic, Who know's.<br><br>We have
two new poems posted at the outpost, One by Snake and
one by EasyEcho. If you have'nt seen em, you need to
check them out. Just click on the founders home page on
the main menu and enter through the hatch.... Hot
Dang !<br><br>Other troops will be showing up soon, so
move over and make some room...S/F

Its good to see you both signing on...Welcome to Boons Snake and
ScorpioKat1...BW

BW signing in...Its good to be back.S/F BW

Well i made it back!!!::grins::Hope everyone follows behind me!! Love
ScorpioKat1 AKA KimmieKat

We fought as one in the land of the
Sun<br>through the jungles and the Monsoon rains<br>We were
taught to kill and to take useless hills<br>to accept
and then to bury the pain<br><br>We were taught to
forget our loss<br>not to grieve for the Few and the
Proud<br>We sat in silence in utter defiance<br>crying inside
but never out loud<br><br>They had much to teach and
senseless goals to reach<br>we learned those hard lessons
well<br>We lived for the moment, overcame the
torments<br>never thinking we would return from this
hell<br><br>Still we said our goodbye's and flew the friendly
skies<br>war torn, dazed and alone<br>They taught us well to
survive, to fight and to die<br>but they never taught us
how to come home...<br><br>Boon 4/18/00

I am falling back and regrouping here. If you are
a Marine Or a Vietnam veteran, Semper Fi, And
Welcome home. If you are an atagonistic protester, Hit
the bricks, all others are welcome.<br><br>All poetry
here will be considered for publication on my web site
with the authors permission. It will be discussed
first, and as space allows. If I run out of space they
will be rotated accordingly. I look forward to your
submissions.<br><br>Now, if you have an empty sandbag fill it up and make
yourself at home. Boondockers is looking for a Few Good
Men And Women...Adios' Boon

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