You sir, have the best post I have read in years. You and your buddies were every bit the heroes we have fighting in Iraq now. You were fighting a dictator who later murdered millions of the people you were protecting. Don't let any of these dirtbags tell you were anything but a hero, they were wrong and still are. Thank You!
Pray for W and Our Troops
Thanks for the compliment, but we just did our duty. To be an Airborne Ranger you were a volunteer. That meant the we were committed to our duty and we were VERY serious about it. Even after screening over half (in those days) of a given Ranger class will wash out before training is complete. If you were a draftee you had to sign up for an extra year to be a Ranger. By the time we graduated from Ranger school, 10 weeks worth (after Airborne Basic, 10 weeks, Jump School 8 weeks) we were itching for a good fight, and we knew it was going to be in the Nam. The next step would be Special Forces. I looked at the option but decided that they remove just a little too much of your brain up there (don't you green beanies come after me for that crack, you guys still scare me to the latrine). Thank God we got 'em!
As I said (line from a movie) "A hero is some kinda weird sandwich". Of my buddies that made it back we are all better men for what we did. We are kind, hard working, well educated, responsible and, above all, patriotic (by the way, of the 10 of us still around there isn't a democRAT in the bunch).
Again, thanks for your kind words, but lets use our prose to reelect our President and keep that Kerry dirtbag as far away from the office of Commander in Chief as is humanly possible.