I'm somewhat surprised I read your post, and even more surprised I am responding.
Dave, I guess you could easy say I am a bitter old man, I don't consider that a insult at all. I did meet a few guys in the old days that were high on love for the military. In the old days we disresectfuly called them lifers, then we soon called them point men. Seems the casulity rate of point men was increased with the amount of this love they had. One never knows why?
I was in a chicken poop outfit, we were all scared cowards, and we never intentionaly took on more than we thought we could chew.
Todays military is indeed different, but a few things still exist. They still give out shinny things to put on your uniform to make some feel proud. They also have body counts of 4,375, and 31,616 injured from the us military. They still give flags, a very personel letter from the comander in chief (not nesasaraly hand written) to all the proud families. Yet still the family often dies, as their loved one dies, like in the past or olden days.
Friday I helped scrape up a 18 year old off the HWY, so kids aren't probably any safer in any ocupation. Yet to a bitter old man, I still think their is a big differance.
Dave, I wish you the best, be careful, young guys can also die, and us old folks must die. Alot of us old bitter guys living in the past used to think like you. Our eyes are geeting worse, but we can still see things young folks often can not see.
You made mention of air in tires now days, Us red necks had no clue of that. That could be as a result of gettin hitched to our cousins an all. And we also do stupid stuff like helping a neighbor (often another cousin). We conserve water by cleaning a transmission as we take our monthly baths--once in a while we even throw in some home made Lye soap. Usualy the soap is reserved only for when dating a new cousin however.
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