A LOOK INSIDE THE MIND OF A GENERATION-X DESERTER (FUNNY AND MADDENING AT THE SAME TIME)

BUCKETFOOT-AL | 1997 | USAF SECOND LIEUTENANT 'MARK'

[T.Smith]

If we have to explain it to you, you wouldn't understand.

[Al Simmons]

*Ummmm....Did I *PING* you? If so, sorry.

In case you missed the point, Lt 'Mark' DID NOT do 'his time'. He escaped Court-Martial thanks to some Clintoon-appointed civilian lawyer in DC who recommended to the SecAF to discharge him in lieu of court-martial.

I have felt cheated ever since. I spent nights DROOLING over the prospect of reading his desertion manifesto to the military jury during my summation - and some fellow-traveler in DC robbed me of the experience by just kicking him out!!!

;-(

Besides, don't you ever read any of these posts for their humorous value?

[fr_freak]

Truly amazing at all the posts that bash this young man for making a life decision. Men and woman leave their spouses all the time. Which act of desertion has TRULY more of a devastating effect?

A lot of people don't think you should abandon your commitments, whether they are to a spouse or to your country, especially for such flighty reasons as this guy listed. If you can't understand why, then you're probably not somebody I'd ever trust.

[r9etb]

Funny how you signed in specifically to post that. My problem with this fellow is not that he came back, but that he's whiny and silly, and uses his feeeeelings to justify some pretty stupid comments.

[r9etb]

*Ummmm....Did I *PING* you? If so, sorry.

You didn't ping him. He has but one post in his entire (signed on today) history at FR....

[95 Bravo]

It's a shame this little puke didn't do time at Leavenworth, breaking big rocks into little rocks. At least six years worth.
But just remember- what goes around, comes around. He'll get his, somewhere down the line.

[Al Simmons]

"Why the negative spin? Be a part of the solution. Visit the mosque to make friends and learn deeper respect for an ancient, fascinating, complex, beautiful civilization."

He forgot to mention learning about getting a 'friendly' head-ectomy from his new 'friends'.

[stands2reason]

The Anglo-Saxon word for Narcissist was of course Cissy... not to be confused with the affectionate term for a female sibling, Sissy...

You have a source for that?

[Al Simmons]

Theodore Roosevelt used "Sissy" to signify a coward in his writings. He wasn't wrong about much.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

There is an entire "lost generation" of us between the Boomers and Gen X. Too young for the sixties, not nearly grungy enough to be Xers, those of us born between 1954 and 1965 have been dubbed "Generation Jones". See details at http://www.jonathanpontell.com/aboutgenjones.htm

[Lekker 1]

What a wierd and stupid country we live in.

As an inanimate object that exists only in concept, our country cannot be "stupid"...only people within it. Are you suggesting that we have a monopoly on stupid people? Look around you. I'll bet the vast majority of the items and ideas that enrich your life were invented by the "stupid" people you refer to.

[stands2reason]

I know the word exists, I was curious about the derivation.

[saquin]

Uh, Gen Xers ARE the kids of baby boomers. Y comes after X, remember?

"Lodged between the older, attention-gulping baby boomers and the younger Gen Yers, Generation X is overshadowed by its siblings if for no other reason than their sheer numbers."

Yes, X-ers are between Boomers and Gen Y but that doesn't mean X-ers are the children of boomers. Most children of Boomers are Gen Y (I say "most" because there's always people who had kids really young or really old but they're not the norm).

I'm an X-er, born in 1970. My parents were born in 1936 and 1941, not Boomers but members of the "silent generation".

[sodpoodle]

Is that you Mark?

[Glenn]

read "bat boy" yet?

[Lazamataz]

Gues whose side he's on NOW?? Read what the traitorous little skunk says today:

Good thing he left. He would have compromised our forces.

"I wonder what it’s like to be a Muslim in the United States today."

Hey Mark: Simple solution. Muslims leave the US.

[sodpoodle]

Wikipedia

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj. 1. cissy - having unsuitable feminine qualities
effeminate, emasculate, sissified, sissy, sissyish, epicene
unmanful, unmanlike, unmanly - not possessing qualities befitting a man

[ConservativeGadfly]

Agree wholeheartedly with you. I was born in 1966, BUT, my parents were actually WWII generation parents -- that is, they were actually born in the 1920's. They had me when they were in their 40's. All their friends thought they were nuts.

It had its good points and its bad points. All those folks who are blithely having children late in life may not be considering all the finer points.

Like the fact that it was terrific having parents who were financially, socially stable in every way.....but my children have now been deprived of a set of grandparents and now, in my late 30s, I have no parents and a whole lot of things to deal with in the wake of their demise......that most folks deal with in their 40s, 50s and 60s with their parents' passing......

I was, for instance, about 24 years old, when my mother went down the Alzheimer's path. Not an easy road.