"on the same page" / "If I tell you, I'll have to kill you."

[Wilson Gray]

The Second Armored Division: Hell On Wheels. A buddy of mine who did
Basic with the 2AD in the 'Fifties said that the trainees referred to
it as "Hell On Heels!" :-)

-Wilson

On 10/29/06, Wells Darla L <dlw3208 at louisiana.edu> wrote:
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> I know for a fact that we were using it at Fort Hood in the 522nd CIWI (I
> think I spelled it right) Battalion in the 2nd Armored Division in 1976-7ish.
> Darla Wells
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> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:15:32 -0500, Sam Clements wrote
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> > kill you."
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> > From: "Dave Wilton" <dave at WILTON.NET>
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> > Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 5:05 PM
> > Subject: Re: "on the same page" / "If I tell you, I'll have to kill you."
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> > > It was well established in military/national security circles long before
> > > "Top Gun."
> > >
> > > --Dave Wilton
> > >  dave at wilton.net
> >
> > Cite?  :)
> >
> > Sam Clements
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> --But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stay;
> Invention, Natures childe, fledde step-dame Studies blowes;
> And others feet still seemde but strangers in my way.
> Thus, great with childe to speak, and helplesse in my throwes,
> Biting my trewand pen, beating myselfe for spite,
> Fool, said my Muse to me, looke in thy heart, and write . (Sidney)
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Everybody says, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange
complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is knows how deep
a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our
race. He brought death into the world.

--Sam Clemens

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