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Longshot231 said:
My father was an artilleryman during WWII. He was practically deaf in his left ear. He never talked to me about the war until I went in the military.

I was the only one of my siblings to join the military and was the only one he would share his experiences with.
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My father also served in WWII and when I graduated from school, I told my dad I was going to go into the military. He outright forbid me from doing it. Between my mom and dad's families, they lost 5 men in the war. My dad told me that he didn't want another drop of our blood shed in the military. I obeyed him, went on to a decent career and retired at 55. I have had a happy life, but I still wish my dad would have given me his graces.

A bit of a back story. My dad should have been the 6th family member to have died in WWII. He was injured in France, shipped over to England, where he spent a year in the hospital there. From England, he spent almost another 2 years at Walter Reed. For all this, they gave him a disability of $25 a month, which increased over the years to $45 at his death. Needless to say he was bitter.
 
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1J04 said:
All I gotta say is "enough is enough". You wanna get touchy feely up in someone's face while spraying as much as you're say'n? Face meet Hand.


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Isn't that about the time you suspect the person may have keistered a kilo of heroin and you have to check?

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BullGear said:
My father also served in WWII and when I graduated from school, I told my dad I was going to go into the military. He outright forbid me from doing it. Between my mom and dad's families, they lost 5 men in the war. My dad told me that he didn't want another drop of our blood shed in the military. I obeyed him, went on to a decent career and retired at 55. I have had a happy life, but I still wish my dad would have given me his graces.

A bit of a back story. My dad should have been the 6th family member to have died in WWII. He was injured in France, shipped over to England, where he spent a year in the hospital there. From England, he spent almost another 2 years at Walter Reed. For all this, they gave him a disability of $25 a month, which increased over the years to $45 at his death. Needless to say he was bitter.
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My dad was infantry in Korea, twice wounded. When I mentioned the army, he raised his voice for probably the third time in my life. I said, okay marines...tone changed (not for the good). After a short conversation, he said he was okay with navy or AF. Checked out the navy, but without homo experience...

Very late in life, he talked about a few experiences.
 
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Longshot231 said:
My father was an artilleryman during WWII. He was practically deaf in his left ear. He never talked to me about the war until I went in the military.

I was the only one of my siblings to join the military and was the only one he would share his experiences with.
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I’ve known this guy for about two years and we are both in the Air Force. Of course I was a pud knocker compared to this guy who was a forward combat controller.

So one day were chatting and I’m talking about the one time that I made a mistake of volunteering for some thing and actually ended up in what turned out to be a hot combat zone for which I was not trained. It was honestly a total shit show...

Now I know this guy will totally understand what I mean because you can’t do his job without having seen a lot of action; and Air Force Forward Combat Controller is not a desk job... and it’s generally not an easy job either...

He started telling me about a few of his encounters unsolicited and I was like h-o-l-y shit.

Me “Man, how do you not have PTSD?“

Him “ Oh, I had that and alcohol...”. “ Had to give up the alcohol...”

I am never surprised that World War II veterans, or veterans in general, don’t want to talk about the shit they seen, have done.

My little shit show sucked bad enough I cannot imagine having to do that for four years straight... or being a Marine and storming a beach someplace and watching your buddies all take it hard...

I am in awe of anybody that keeps it to themselves, hard though that probably is, and doesn’t take to the bottle or pills... at least for a time.
 
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Longshot231 said:
My father was an artilleryman during WWII. He was practically deaf in his left ear. He never talked to me about the war until I went in the military.

I was the only one of my siblings to join the military and was the only one he would share his experiences with.
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My Grandfather was a mortarman in Korea and I am the only one of his children / grandchildren that joined the military. He has told me some incredible stories about his experiences that noone else in our family will ever know and it is due to our shared military service. The most amazing part is that he wants to tell someone about his experiences, but he knows noone else will understand!
 
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geek65 said:
So she thinks it's OK to threaten to stab someone! Typical left wing, claim to be peaceful but just a bunch of violent thugs.
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Don't understand why the "Angry" emojis, must be from a bunch of liberals (please reply why you don't agree and why you feel that it was acceptable for her to threaten to stab someone!).
 
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geek65 said:
Don't understand why the "Angry" emojis, must be from a bunch of liberals (please reply why you don't agree and why you feel that it was acceptable for her to threaten to stab someone!).
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Well, here’s the thing about emojis: they illustrate an emotion. So the angry emoji can illustrate one’s anger at your comment in the post or anger at the idiot woman who made the comments. This is just the same as the laughter emoji. One can use it to illustrate that one thinks a post is funny or one can illustrate that they think you are an idiot and are laughing at you. It’s pretty hard to tell sometimes without additional context.
 
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lash said:
Well, here’s the thing about emojis: they illustrate an emotion. So the angry emoji can illustrate one’s anger at your comment in the post or anger at the idiot woman who made the comments. This is just the same as the laughter emoji. One can use it to illustrate that one thinks a post is funny or one can illustrate that they think you are an idiot and are laughing at you. It’s pretty hard to tell sometimes without additional context.
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In general I think most don’t need the additional context, usually when it needs the context for understanding, understanding is still lacking. IMHO. 🤙 Edit: Bear Pit exclusion, THERE emoji along with the next “elucidating” comm nuggets are GOLD. 😉😉
 
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