About on a par with most such religiosity. (Not to be confused with religion.) I should have known better than to think otherwise.
You wanna know something? I was perplexed, as I said originally, about the structure and content of this cyber-place. I wasn't attacking, I was genuinely puzzled. I also was concerned about a security risk to users. (This last seems to have been discarded in anyone's appraisal. If you don't care, that's your lookout.)
I have the utmost respect for veterans. I had a father in the Navy and two uncles in the Army who died from the eventual aftereffects (magnified by age, certainly) of their Second World War injuries. One uncle, after identifying over a dozen other American Eagle Squadron pilots who served with him in the Battle of Britain, those bodies that weren't cut into ribbons. This stress, and the alcohol he took to forget, eventually crippled this USAAF Colonel with multiple sclerosis -- years after he patented six rocket propellants that helped get us toward walking on the Moon.
They put their lives on the line in a host of ways. I have also had cousins serve honorably in Vietnam. I was not physically able to serve, there or since, nor personally inclined if I were, but I have never once disparaged or done anything other than wholeheartedly support my many friends who have done so, some of more than 25 years since high school.
I have one of my dearest friends on Earth serving right now in the 82nd Airborne over in Afghanistan. He has two baby daughters and is scared at times -- this is a Captain, who certainly doesn't show it to his men -- that he won't come home in one piece. I don't blame him for anyone else's decisions about this current war, I applaud his dedication.
If you decided to see past some personal confusion, and offered instead to knit someone else into your circle, you might have found someone else to share more thoughts and good wishes with in this Canteen.
Even with it not -- or so it seems -- being reciprocated, I wish you all well.
P.S. To whoever was channeling Alan Jay Lerner and 'Liza Doolittle up above: You'd have been more on target with your wit if you'd used "I'm On My Way" ("Where am I goin', I don't know") from "Paint Your Wagon." Try some more under-used musicals next time. ~grin~