My new purse.
Posted on 09/19/2004 9:25:02 PM PDT by Mo1
Sounds like a perfect Saturday.
Heh heh heh.. me too.
LOL.. me either Libby, I quit at Red.
There is nothing more infuriating than the anti-military types. It wasn't as extreme during Gulf I, but I could sense it from the aging hippies even back then.
I have sometimes thought that everyone should serve our country in some capacity for a year or two - maybe after high school. I don't believe women should be in combat positions, and like you said, there are many others that just couldn't hack it... but there are plenty of other opportunities. As long as it were done in-country and not something like the Peace Corps...
I started to take the goth test, but I couldn't find one single multiple choice question that I could check.
LOL..who dey, what dat? Ahhhh fold..
It doesn't happen. Mo is usually going to bed just as grannie is getting up. LOL
Did you all notice that I snuck away for my Grannie nap? sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Naps are the best thing about getting old.
Wait,......correction....they're the only good thing about getting old...
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Naps are good for everyone :) Doctors recommend 20 minute cat naps. Uhhh, so in case I'm "away" ...
LOL LOL..you're excused..
The worst I ever ran into in real life was a local newspaper reporter telling me and my howitzer sefction to our faces that we should be shutdown and charged with war crimes.
He almost found himself in a whole world of hurt, a good portion of our top NCO's had been in Vietnam, and they didn't take too kindly to this pencil necked pulp fiction purveyor saying that to us.
(Times Herald Record reporter in 1999. Never got his name since he took off his press badge and took off once the heat got too much for him.)
What a good portion of units could use is support, people volunteering time and such to collect minor necessities like bar soap, towels, stationary, staples, stamps, envelopes and such.
I do not have info on hand about what may be needed, CENTCOM may have that.
The anti-war types in my local area have been rather quiet, but they are there.
You can find them by listening in on their conversations.
Usually they're saying the tired old conspiracy garbage about 9/11 being a US CIA/Israeli Mossad operation.
Such insane ideas seem to take hold and grow among the supposedly educated but paranoidal and ignorant hippies in my area.
My new purse.
Cool!
Looks like something my sis would love.
Yes, totally about the support units, etc. It's so hard on families left behind, and so encouraging when non-family members put together care packages. My thinking is that if every citizen had to help in some way, we'd have more of a personal stake in whichever war were being waged. Conscientious protesters (and the Amish, I think) could plant victory gardens. Maybe I'm wrong and the whole thing would just create more peaceniks...
My mini-skulls.
That is AWESOME!!!
Our Smoke(Chief of the firing battery/ Chief of fire and smoke) told the guy tersely, "I think you'd best leave at this time."
The reporter pretty much stood there with a snotty grin until he saw that there were five of us walking up behind him.
That was when he took off running.
The unfortunate part of unit support is that if you make something mandatory rather than voluntary, people with chafe about it.
It's a different world now from when our parents were little, and 'nationalism' is seen as a bad thing on par with fascism and communism.
Victory gardens were done when my father was a baby, and now such displays of 'love of country' are seen by some as being dangerous and 'on the road to another hitler.'
The point of breakage between love of country, patriotism and volunterring is schools and school curriculum.
Children are taught that love of country is evil.
Cool!
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