My vacation ends and I go back to work next week, which will severely curtail my posting.

I've spent a lot of time in here reading and posting in the past week or so. Thank you to all who I have replied and spoken with. Thank you also for any reputation clicks I received. I don't know why I'd get them, I don't think my opinions are particularly unique, but thank you.

I noticed that some individuals in here have a great deal of animousity towards the United States military. That concerns me a little. Do those of you who have this opinion ever talk to anyone who is serving or has served?

I just want to say, that by in large, the folks who serve in the military are just ordinary folks put into extraordinary situations. The vast majority don't "get off" on killing and/or taking innocent lives. Most have families of their own, most don't intend to make careers out of the military. Most have hobbies, watch TV, listen to music, play amateur sports, go out to bars. They are just people same as you, maybe in a little better physical conditon (just jokin')

There are a few bad apples. There are a few bad teachers, bad doctors, bad police officers, bad you name it....

I am saddened to read so much animosity towards them.

If I have influenced one person's mind, to maybe think a little better of those men and women who are serving in Iraq or anywhere for that matter. My time was not wasted.

Take care.

I just noticed I spelled Animousity wrong in the title!

Drop us a note every once in awhile.


Good luck, Be well.

Ted

I've enjoyed your posts, Herk. You must come back and visit often.

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. - Theodore Roosevelt

as a group, our military personnel - and their families - epitomize more than any other sector of our population what is right about America.
support our troops, absolutely ... but also recognize the iraq decision which unnecessarily placed them in harm's way was beyond moronic

saw this about another sky truck driver:



keep the sunny side up, herc

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"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
-Dr Seuss
You should have heard what i meant to say (apologies to Thelonious Monk)
"The police are not here to cause disorder....
...The police are here to preserve disorder."
Hon. Richard J. Daley
Chicago, 1968

Keep up the good work. I'll keep trying to keep the John Kerry's of the world in check.

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"We should Invade Their Countries, Kill Their Leaders, and Convert Them to Christianity." Ann Coulter
There is a fine line between a subtle nuance and an extreme dichotomy! - PatriotNews

Yeh what PatriotNews said! And the rest of us will keep the pressure on President Chimpy McFlightsuit..errr, Drinky McDumbas ahh.. I mean, the Commander-in-Chief.. yeh, keep the pressure on the politicans to get their sh8t together.

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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)