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SukunaiPremium
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Re: Remembrance Day...........stories The nicest thing a vet has done for me, is chew me out for my downplaying my own service which was cut short thanks to honourable medical discharge in favour of implying his service was so much more meaningful.
Young man, when you signed on the dotted line, you were in the military every bit as much as I was in so long ago. You put your life at risk by signing on and offering to let the government control it. That nothing bad resulted, is not my fault.
I thanked him for his words and politely excused myself so I didn't end up crying in front of him. Partly I felt genuinely chewed out, but partly he gave me something back, I had thrown away a long time ago.
Every day is Remembrance Day for me though. I just cry a lot more on the 11th of November thinking of our fallen, people that will never grow old now.
I won't make this political, because that would be wrong, but, I DO wish we would take our people out of Astan. That shit hole is worth nothing, and certainly it is not worth our brave people that are falling for nothing over there. And yes, I AM an expert on the region and it's long history.
And please remember all of our people that didn't come home in boxes, they came home alive, but in too many cases, they were greatly hurt in their minds and their souls. No one is helping these persons. And too many of them are dying AFTER they get home by their own hands because they were not healed properly. | |
 DKSDamn Kidney StonesPremium,ExMod 2002
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kudos:2 | said by Sukunai:Young man, when you signed on the dotted line, you were in the military every bit as much as I was in so long ago. You put your life at risk by signing on and offering to let the government control it. That nothing bad resulted, is not my fault.
Damn right. Remember that.
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