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To: gunnedah
Everybody likes the taste of cake, but nobody wants to bake it.

I tried to get into the Air Force and the Army out of high school. Unfortunately, I am blind in one eye and couldn't get them to take me.

I sit here spitting a$$ mad that I can't do anything to kill a few of the f'ers that did this, and she' a whiney little freeloading b*tch of a worthless sack of maggot filled cowflop.

They should throw her in a hole and crap on her until she suffocates.

I have never gotten along with my grandfather too well, but the one thing I respect him for is his service. He was in the Pacific, and he came home with a kamikaze bullet hole in his jacket. He manned a gun until the barrel got so hot it warped. He said he still doesn't know how it kept firing, but there was no time to change it. Nobody on his boat thought they were coming home, and fought like demons anyway. When he came home, he became a preacher and sold his rifle, because he couldn't stand it.

Which is fine, because he'd already done his part.

195 posted on 09/17/2001 4:44:48 PM PDT by TheLurkerX
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To: TheLurkerX
Boy, you sound just like my brother...my brother was in his third year of college when Viet Nam was going on....he wanted to quit college after his third year was done, and join the military and go to Viet Nam to do what he felt was his duty...

He wanted to go so bad, but we all knew he would never get in....because when he was seven, he had a horrible accident, suffered a severe fractured skull, and was actually permanently blind in both eyes for several, weeks...slowly the vision in his right eye returned, but he was forever permanently blind in his left eye...

But he thought if he just kept going to difference military branches, someone would overlook his blindness, and sign him up...he went to the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, even tried the Coast Guard...but he could not pass the eye test, and was disqualified....it really broke his heart...

After he had tried all his options, and could not get taken by anyone, he actually became very depressed, and for a while, felt quite worthless...with family support, and lots of love, and understanding, he returned to college to finish his forth year and graduate...

Hes gone now, died at age 34 from a heart attack....but I know, until his dying day, he always felt depair, that he could not serve his country in the military...

205 posted on 09/17/2001 4:58:50 PM PDT by andysandmikesmom
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