Nobody wants you around, no civilian here or civilian overseas, because you might smile at their daughter. For sure you are drunk and will make a pass at some woman or start a fight, (You enlisted men have a place to go, down by the pier or airport where you won’t bother good people.) Of course if there is a hot zone in the news the civilians expect you to go running toward it, after all that’s what you get paid for.
Well buck up me hearties, you got a life education money can’t buy. You found out what the rest of the world is like. The poverty, even of first world Europe where few ever escape the class thy were born in. Where entire families live in two rooms with the bath down the hall shared with five other families. Or even worse the third world where desperate people beg on the streets. Men with machine gun are on every corner because there is a new dictator this week. Where the courts decide by who has paid the biggest bribe. Where you have to ask what meat is in that sandwich or maybe not ask because it’s the only food around and knowing will spoil your appetite. You learned so your wife and children and neighbors won’t have to know what its like.
You’ve joined a long line from Valley Forge to to Afghanistan. We remember you. We call you brothers. Welcome Home...."
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 America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi! |
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Thank you all, and I am soooooo glad you came home. ((Hugs))
Right on! Hoo-ah and Oo-rah to my veteran brothers & sisters!
What is the difference between a second lieutenant and a PFC?
The PFC has been promoted twice!
(- CPT Morton)
“monotonous food” ??
I actually miss C-Rations.
Anyone reproducing them, maybe as a prep item??
The worst was drinking Ballantine beer.