Thanks for sharing, and thank you for your service. There's the old saying: "He swears like a drunken soldier." That's me, although I don't drink. It's a good thing I'm old, and about the only time I go anywhere is to doctor appointments and the grocery store. I still know how to behave in public.
I still use the F word with the one couple that I remain friends with. All the others have passed, and I say it when I'm visiting my niece and her family, because they say it too. And of course I use it at home, where I'm basically alone, except for my youngest son of 55 who lives with me because of health problems. He never paid attention to what I said when he was a kid, and still doesn't. It is amazing how easily it rolls off the tongue. In the prison, every other word you spoke included the F word. I'm not that bad anymore, having been out of that environment for so long.
LOL, you know, I used to wear that like a badge of honor, much the way I held my heavy drinking, but I have tried to cut that loose, though I admit I find it hard to not see humorous angles to some of those things where both bad language and drinking were involved, sometimes at the same time.
Heh, like you, I know how to behave in public. I also try to behave myself at home, as late in life I realized my wife of many years found my fine and fancy cussing to be disconcerting to her when I was building something and it didn’t go quite as planned!
For me, it was no big deal, because I really wasn’t all that upset. But she was interpreting it another way and thought I was in great distress, so...I try to keep a lid on it!