7 Years ago I was awaken by my mother when the first tower was hit, I thought it was some prank gone wrong, then the second and the pentagon. By the end of my day at school I was more determined to join the Army as I saw others in my class in shock and just sidelining themselves. I took action because others didn't.
6 years ago I was a few weeks from graduation from Basic being marched out to one of the parade grounds for the 1st memorial it struck me that unconventional warfare was near, as the drills were some what "nicer" to us then normal from accounts I've taken from previous cycles.
When I was in recruiting it upset me even more as I saw students and other citizens forgot what patriotism was and what they had showed in the following months of the attack. I started seeing sheep. At least my maverick ways helped pave a new light at the local City College, being that I've never seen combat then and now the uninformed students stopped the Vietnam war
stereotype of soldiers and apologized to me when they sat down and listened to me and I listened to their side and brought in some Iraqi war vets and some of the refugees and their light in the matter. Better yet, the only people that disliked me were some of the upper middle class parents whom led a privileged life and refused to understand that I was one of the same and the code pink, and such groups. Then again I've had my times when I had to hold back like the time Sen Kerry had his botched joke right across the street from my office at Pasadena City College. This then turned my distaste toward Democrats as they became more socialist and populist. All I ask is that we stop being ignorant, bias and one-sided, these are few of the key things that the old worldists dislike about us and its 70 years of evolution has spread like an epidemic and now we are acting like Big Brother trying to cleanse what we had created. War is unloved but necessary evil and with no war there is no peace and with peace there is war. Cause and effect can ever end and always needs balance. And I am Going SiX plus years still statesided.
btw, Step Into Liquid is a great surfing documentary.
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The Battery from the truck from the last post.
"The reason why the terminals don't fit... Private... is because the connection melted when you shorted the circuit you idiot!" - anonymous cohort.
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