July 24, 201214 yr I do get tired of so much political correctness, but still not hatred in my bones to anyone. It's good to know that you don't hate anyone. Your post just made it sound as though you wished gays didn't exist...but perhaps I took it wrong.
July 24, 201214 yr Late 30's or early 40's. And I'd live in Hohman, Indiana. But the car would freeze up in the middle of summer on the Equator.
July 24, 201214 yr There are many, many, MANY times that I find myself oddly jealous of both my grandfathers for their "fortune" to be able to involve themselves in such an obvious fight between good and evil as was World War II. One of my biggest regrets in life is not to have fought for my country, and when I look at all of the implications involved with all of the wars the United States has involved itself in, I can't see any being more clearly obvious who the "good guy" was versus the "bad guy" than WWII. ...maybe the American Revolution held a candle to WWII...but I'd take WWII over the US Revolution any day. I get what you're saying Colonel. However, from my experience of just talking to several WW II veterans here in Martinsville, I would not wish to be a part of even that conflict. The notion of righteousness is lost in war, even with the best of causes. I've spoken here with vets from D-Day, to Italy to the Bulge. They never spoke in anything but hushed and pained tones about the conflict and their role in it. One particular man served as an advance scout in the mountains of Italy and he said he could never get over the things he had done. When I shared that with a guy who had never served before, the man said: "How can he feel that way? He was fighting for the right cause?" I told him that "the right cause" doesn't always let one sleep at night when the experience is so horrific.
July 24, 201214 yr I get what you're saying Colonel. However, from my experience of just talking to several WW II veterans here in Martinsville, I would not wish to be a part of even that conflict. The notion of righteousness is lost in war, even with the best of causes. I've spoken here with vets from D-Day, to Italy to the Bulge. They never spoke in anything but hushed and pained tones about the conflict and their role in it. One particular man served as an advance scout in the mountains of Italy and he said he could never get over the things he had done. When I shared that with a guy who had never served before, the man said: "How can he feel that way? He was fighting for the right cause?" I told him that "the right cause" doesn't always let one sleep at night when the experience is so horrific. Understood, and I can certainly level with you. One of my grandfathers was in the first wave following the initial invasion at Normandy and he was among those who liberated Paris, and my other grandfather was on the only US destroyer to survive Guadalcanal. Both had/have difficulty at times talking about it...but it was also something that they both vocally took a great amount of pride in.
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