Military service does not equal sanity
I served 4 years in Submarines, My wife 4 years in Army Intel. My son just signed up for Army Engineer corps.
John McCain served, he was batsh*t crazy when he returned, and is until this day.
I knew a good man who returned from Vietnam, and he blamed no-none for his troubles.
More after the fold........
A good friend of mine in 1973 had just returned from Vietnam, and was not sane. I carried him home more nights than I care to remember.
One night, I went to check on him, He charged through the front door with a pistol, and while I thought he was aiming at my head, he pulled off three rounds.
I heard the bullets pass my ear, and later on found out that he was killing the three "gooks" behind me.
They were in fact, the three trash cans at the end of his driveway.
I was 12 years old. Tom's story fascinated me. He was 22.
Tom was an Eagle Scout. He saved three kids from drowning at the age of 14. War killed him. He's long dead from a heroin overdose. I found his body 2 years after we met.
Thank your particular Gods that this crop of lunatics never actually troubled themselves with service, because that would be one more weapon they would use against those of us who did, and survived the experience.
Unlike Tom, I have no picture of me holding up a Gook head. (I still have the one he gave me). I never drove a tank carrier over a house full of people. He did so because he was told to, and that made it okay.
Thank Your Gods that none of those running on the Republican ticket ever had the bal*s to go actually pull the trigger on someone in their line-of-site.
It's easy to be a tough guy when you have no skin in the game. Hence our new republican party. Tough guys, with security details.
Consider my view,
Tom charged the porch, completely high on whatever, shot 3 trashcans behind my head, scored three good shots, and left me not dead. He did it to defend me. All this while seeing dead Vietnamese tormenting him in his head.
Which of the republican candidates can you imagine in this scenario?
I miss Tom. I would vote for him.
Millrat