Comments on: A Day for Veterans http://talesoftheidiot.com/2007/11/12/a-day-for-veterans/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:36:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: bullet proof vest http://talesoftheidiot.com/2007/11/12/a-day-for-veterans/comment-page-1/#comment-1354 bullet proof vest Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:36:14 +0000 http://talesoftheidiot.com/?p=24#comment-1354 Thank you to all of our armed forces from wars past and present who unselfishly gave their lives for for their country. Thank you. Thank you to all of our armed forces from wars past and present who unselfishly gave their lives for for their country. Thank you.

]]> By: bullet proof vest http://talesoftheidiot.com/2007/11/12/a-day-for-veterans/comment-page-1/#comment-1353 bullet proof vest Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:57:29 +0000 http://talesoftheidiot.com/?p=24#comment-1353 On V Day I want to extend my deepest thanks to all of our military. Thank you. On V Day I want to extend my deepest thanks to all of our military. Thank you.

]]> By: Angelina http://talesoftheidiot.com/2007/11/12/a-day-for-veterans/comment-page-1/#comment-1352 Angelina Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:22:31 +0000 http://talesoftheidiot.com/?p=24#comment-1352 Thanks Chris, one of the few civilians that get it. Thanks Chris, one of the few civilians that get it.

]]> By: Miss Try http://talesoftheidiot.com/2007/11/12/a-day-for-veterans/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Miss Try Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:52:05 +0000 http://talesoftheidiot.com/?p=24#comment-38 As someone with a little brother who's a marine, all I can say is RIGHT ON! "Vets" today are otherwise known as "kids." Kids who were usually lured by a powerful recruitment machine, with the promise of college tuition and "being all you can be." My brother is one smart whip. Athletic, intelligent, kind to small animals and women, exactly the kind of person you wouldn't think would join the military. But they got him. Now he has to face going over, losing his job and wondering if he'll lose his life. Is he sorry he joined? Boy fucking howdy, is he. This isn't "the way" they told him it would be. And before you say, "well he should have known," ask yourself, did you do anything stupid when you were nineteen? Was there anything nobody could talk you out of, or did you have a feeling of immortality and never-endingness? Yeah. Me too. Only I didn't have to pay with my life, or someone else's. I don't worry about him being wounded or even killed - as strange as that seems, those both seem like comparitively "clean" endings. I worry that he will have to kill someone else, and then live with that for the rest of his life. So my little dorky brother is going to be a "vet." Lets hope this time next year, he's here to celebrate another (unspectacular) Veterans day. I think I might go buy one of those little red paper poppies today...if I can find one. As someone with a little brother who’s a marine, all I can say is RIGHT ON! “Vets” today are otherwise known as “kids.” Kids who were usually lured by a powerful recruitment machine, with the promise of college tuition and “being all you can be.”

My brother is one smart whip. Athletic, intelligent, kind to small animals and women, exactly the kind of person you wouldn’t think would join the military. But they got him. Now he has to face going over, losing his job and wondering if he’ll lose his life. Is he sorry he joined? Boy fucking howdy, is he. This isn’t “the way” they told him it would be.

And before you say, “well he should have known,” ask yourself, did you do anything stupid when you were nineteen? Was there anything nobody could talk you out of, or did you have a feeling of immortality and never-endingness?

Yeah. Me too. Only I didn’t have to pay with my life, or someone else’s.

I don’t worry about him being wounded or even killed – as strange as that seems, those both seem like comparitively “clean” endings. I worry that he will have to kill someone else, and then live with that for the rest of his life.

So my little dorky brother is going to be a “vet.” Lets hope this time next year, he’s here to celebrate another (unspectacular) Veterans day. I think I might go buy one of those little red paper poppies today…if I can find one.

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