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| He Lived All Alone, In A One Bedroom House Made Of Plaster And Stone. I Had Come Down The Chimney With Presents To Give, And To See Just Who In This Home Did Live. I Looked All About, A Strange Sight I Did See, No Tinsel, No Presents, Not Even A Tree. No Stocking By Mantle, Just Boots Filled With Sand, On The Wall Hung Pictures Of Far Distant Lands. With Medals And Badges, Awards Of All Kinds, A Sober Thought Came Through My Mind. For This House Was Different, It Was Dark And Dreary, I Found The Home Of A Soldier, Once I Could See Clearly. The Soldier Lay Sleeping, Silent, Alone, Curled Up On The Floor In This One Bedroom Home. The Face Was So Gentle, The Room In Such Disorder, Not How I Pictured A United States Soldier. Was This The Hero Of Whom I'd Just Read? Curled Up On A Poncho, The Floor For A Bed? I Realized The Families That I Saw This Night, Owed Their Lives To These Soldiers Who Were Willing To Fight. Soon Round The World, The Children Would Play, And Grownups Would Celebrate A Bright Christmas Day. They All Enjoyed Freedom Each Month Of The Year, Because Of The Soldiers, Like The One Lying Here. I Couldn't Help Wonder How Many Lay Alone, On A Cold Christmas Eve In A Land Far From Home. The Very Thought Brought A Tear To My Eye, I Dropped To My Knees And Started To Cry. The Soldier Awakened And I Heard A Rough Voice, "Santa Don't Cry, This Life Is My Choice; I Fight For Freedom, I Don't Ask For More, My Life Is My God, My Country, My Corps." The Soldier Rolled Over And Drifted To Sleep, I Couldn't Control It, I Continued To Weep. I Kept Watch For Hours, So Silent And Still And We Both Shivered From The Cold Night's Chill. I Didn't Want To Leave On That Cold, Dark, Night, This Guardian Of Honor So Willing To Fight. Then The Soldier Rolled Over, With A Voice Soft And Pure, Whispered, "Carry On Santa, It's Christmas Day, All Is Secure." One Look At My Watch, And I Knew He Was Right. "Merry Christmas My Friend, And To All A Good Night." Written by Lance Corporal James M. Schmidt in 1986. Printed in Leatherneck (The Magazines for the Marines) in December 1991. | |
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| EliteZukieNr1Posted at 2023-12-29 15:14:44(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| EliteZukieNr1Posted at 2023-12-29 18:34:04(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| EliteZukieNr1Posted at 2023-12-30 18:22:11(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| DinoFlicksPosted at 2023-12-30 19:01:50(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| EliteZukieNr1Posted at 2023-12-30 19:56:50(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| DinoFlicksPosted at 2023-12-31 03:27:49(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| DinoFlicksPosted at 2024-01-01 19:58:10(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| iploggerPosted at 2024-01-02 14:39:17(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Hi Bye Last edited by iplogger on 2024-01-02 15:12:15 | |
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| xJOHNNYxPosted at 2024-01-02 14:45:03(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Which limit are you reffering to? Curious 🏴☠️ | |
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| iploggerPosted at 2024-01-02 14:46:15(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| I think they mean that they need 7 more to get to 10. | |
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| xJOHNNYxPosted at 2024-01-02 15:10:20(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Still curious...which limit does 10 rep points remove?? Anyone? | |
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| iploggerPosted at 2024-01-02 15:17:09(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| You need 10 to review others on TGx, Chatting in the lobby and leaving comments on other people's profiles needs a higher user class than what I have right now. I assume that is tied to having at least 10 rep points but I'm not so certain now. | |
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| xJOHNNYxPosted at 2024-01-02 15:47:54(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Oh, I see. Well, in that case my advice is: Be active in the forums, and,,as folks get to know you, you will amass rep points 👍🏴☠️ For myself...and Im not being a jerk here...I dont hand out points solely because they are asked for. I give them when I feel a member has earned them. Some folks may aquire points faster than others here for various reasons and participation. It just takes a bit of time and patience 👍🏴☠️💯 Take care & keep active, you'll get them points 🥳🏴☠️🥂 Last edited by xJOHNNYx on 2024-01-02 15:53:45 | |
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| Jase1Posted at 2024-01-02 16:32:58(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| iploggerPosted at 2024-01-02 17:52:05(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Oh shit. Some other features that aren't available to non-trusted/<10 rep point users is the ability to create new forum threads and all your forum posts/torrent comments don't show up instantly because they have to be reviewed by a moderator. | |
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| xJOHNNYxPosted at 2024-01-02 18:04:52(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Ber67niePosted at 2024-01-02 18:06:39(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| DinoFlicksPosted at 2024-01-02 18:43:55(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| xJOHNNYxPosted at 2024-01-03 01:18:27(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| DinoFlicksPosted at 2024-01-03 20:59:16(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| iploggerPosted at 2024-01-04 03:32:31(47Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Lol, I'm about to type a bunch of "who asked" right now but I just downloaded PrimoCache and it's helping me seed better because it can use a Samsung EVO 960 256 GB that I bought 6 years ago but stopped using (except to boot into my computer) into a cache for one of my hard drives. I bought a 4 TB SMR drive from Seagate ages ago when I wanted a lot of cheap extra storage. I wasn't massively into torrents back when I bought it so I didn't need anything fancy. Also, my upload speed was literally 1% of what I have now so there was no way I was going to max out reading from the drive. I now have a gigabit upload though so this drive can't keep up anymore. At the time I didn't know what SMR was but it's absolute dog water your hard drive is pretty much a joke  . The cache is nice but when it's fully using all 256 GB it still only has a cache hit rate of about 45 percent (I'm seeding about 1.4 TB of content from the drive). I only just installed this so I haven't left the cache running after it became full for more than a few minutes (I had to transfer my boot record onto my primary drive off of the 256 GB so I could fully treat the drive as one singular volume). I'm gonna leave it running and see how the cache rates improve.I bought a cheap 1TB Kingston SSD from eBay to add to this caching system. 1.25 TB of caching should pretty much remove heavy drive reads for the most part. I wanna see how quickly doing this destroys these drives and racks up the terabytes written for both of those SSDs. Unfortunately, I have to wait up to 2 weeks for the SSD to arrive (hopefully it comes sooner). Edit: Double posting is against the rules but I wanted to make a separate reply under this. I was looking at what the best BitTorrent trackers are because I just made a torrent to share on the internet so that it's archived and doesn't get lost. One open BitTorrent tracker that showed up in this GitHub list that maintains the best trackers listed OpenTrackr. It's hilarious because on their site they publicly list the hashes that they take have taken down in an effort to be transparent with their abuse policies. Anyone who knows their way around torrents knows the hilarity in this. Last edited by iplogger on 2024-01-04 09:18:59 | |
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