Really? I'm sorry you've been so isolated. My sister flopped for months on a hospital bed in pain, eventually having holes drilled into her spinal column because with her IV drip the morphine just wasn't reaching her brain fast enough. I was a career soldier and I've seen horrible things in combat, but I have not seen anything more horrible than those final stages of lung cancer.
Me? Isolated? LOL! You sure don't ME very well, do you!
You want to talk military career? My hubby was a Viet Nam Vet with two Purple Hearts. We traveled all over. Spent 5 years in Germany. He ended his 26 year career up here at Loring Air Force Base as the 1st Sgt of Transportation.
I have never been isolated in my entire life. And the only ugly anti's I have ever run into is right here in FRee Republic. People tolerate each other in MY real life. Smoke or not, friends hang together no matter what.