My Tour of Duty, Interview & 'Soundtrack'

Jody, reviweing the thread, the first (and I now see the second, fith, sixth, and seventh too) vid has been deleted "for viloating the terms of use", any chance you can get it from another - not supressed "on demand" (who demanded it?) - source (as I remember the pics but not the gist to find a copy)?

EDIT: Just on the first page, of 15 videos posted, only three can be viewed, the rest is supressed for being either "Sony: Prohibited to be displayed in your country"  or Google/Youtube: "Supressed on demand: Violating terms of use", definitely time to change video storage site...

It is a real pity, actually, these vids - for me at least - represent history, I somehow over time got the feeling there should be something like "Patrimonial protection" applied to such vids as it is now to buildings with "historical value" as a standard!? I am more and more feeling like living in the dark dictator times again! Any ideas on how to organize a motion for that on the net?!: "WE are THE PEOPLE!"

The third, fifth and 7th vid "...contains Sony content which you are not allowed to view in your country...." ?? WHAT? Can you repeat, plz, Mr. Sony? AFAIK my constituition allows me to view anything, care to be a bit more pricise?

I have been left open mouthed, just after reading 10 posts... Where are we going to, which world do we want to live in? Seriously??

First take: Read Koens post on "How to dl Utube vids" and save them on our machines, upload to WaT from there, not as glöeamy but will work...  Jody, I urge you to review the thread and go through the vids before more vanish, let´s deal with the legal issues later (I have got a Panama server we can use).

Rattler

Jody, I haven´t been on the thread for a long time also, but that is then presumably the good side of having girls on the site ?  

Here the how-to by Koen: http://www.warandtactics.com/smf/wat-board-technical-info/how-to-download-a-youtube-video/

If you have vids stored, let me know, I can (as TA) make sure we can view them on WaT.

Onwards !

(For us Leftist Germans this would be, with Berthold Brecht: "Vorwärts! ...und nicht vergessen, worin unsere Stärke besteht: Die Solidarität!)!", from 1931 (original recording). Traduction: "Onwards, and do never forget what makes us strong! Solidarity!").

Really, let´s give it to youtube, let us try and make them to revisit their standards!

Lyrics: Berthold Brecht (The Three Penny Opera: Mack the Knife), Music: Hanns Eisler ("Hangmen Also Die!", "Schweik in the Second World War")

A rough and bad translation by google, dont have the time to do it myself except the snippet below (3rd verse): http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.erinnerungsort.de%2Fsolidaritaetslied--28-22vorwaerts-und-nicht-vergessen-22-29-_193.html&sl=de&tl=en




EDIT: Changed Vid, now it is not from 1931... :(But, and that is the reason why I changed it, it includes some pictures of the genious Hanns Eisler, directing on the streets in Berlin this song for a demonstration of a lot of  -300.000- people that did not want Hitler to come - and failed miserably).

Hanns Eisler - Solidaritätslied - HK Gruber

Rattler

Yes, I have found many, but they keep getting shut down by You Tube, and they are for my Interview soundtrack so to put them on our channel would seem to defeat the purpose.

Very well, Then Koen needs to grab the ones that are still here, while I find replacements for those stolen from us.

Yes, they even played this one on AFVN radio (Armed Forces Vietnam)

Universal Soldier Donovan Anti War

Jody,

I still have all videos on my HD and your channel is waiting for me to upload them...

Koen sez:


No, my helmet and flak jacket are at the bottom (r) side of the pack, so I carried the whole pile one way or another. You can see a few of the many canteens I carried. At one point I had 8-10 canteens strung across the back.

Yes, my back was made of Iron in those days, I weighed in at 135 lbs., unlike today when I am limited to lifting 20 lbs. and walk with a cane at 250 lbs.

Black Sabbath, 'Ironman'

Black Sabbath Iron Man(Live in Paris 1970)

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Yes Henk, the marvels of modern warfare. I used a camelback during my Veterans walk from SF to Great Salt Lake. So convenient.

During my ToD, we would occasionally sit on a hilltop for a few days and run patrols off it. This in turn required us to send off water patrols to resupply the perimeter security elements that didnt get to patrol into the drainages and get their water. These patrols would gather up empty canteens and patrol down into the drainage to fill the them. On one such patrol, I had filled two of my own canteens after filling about 10 I was carrying for the guys still up on the hill, by the time I got back into the perimeter, I had drank 1 1/2 of the canteens I had filled just a short time before. Thats how hot and dehydrated those of us who had gone down to fetch water (a heavy load on the uphill) became that day. It hardly seemed worth it to those who had humped it, but the guys on the hill needed it.

JFTR: Same here in Mallorca: Working (not hard labour, just normal issues) will need you 4 ltrs daily in summer. I imagine that with gear and BDU it will be more over there.

Kongo, as far as I have heard, might be  different thing, there it is more fatigue because of high humidity tht is an issue, not so much dehydration or salt (Kalium) loss.

Rattler