The thing that scares me is that the craziest things I ever did I found myself doing because I was more afraid of wearing a uniform and having to salute than I was of somebody shooting at me.
Didn't learn til later that spit and polish never killed anybody but an AK47 could take down a Porter. < s > (and that a reasonably bright college grad in 1968 could have gothimself easy OCS and a posting Germany)
>>I ain't marchin' anymore < s > ... It's a young man's game. The believing you're immortal helps a lot.
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>LOL! Man how true that is! The things I did when I was 17! If today someone said, "take that hill boy", my relpy would be , "F*** YOU"! And there would be no smile on my face!
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>>>I thought you would be over in Afghanistan by now..working for the corporation...< bg >...
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
