I amso IR
"Well Yea, Duh"!
- Jul 11, 2015
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I speak from experience Political Chick. I have struggled with post stress for many years now. I simply thought it was that I missed the Army after retirement. Turns everything upside down and backwards. Right becomes wrong and wrong right. It is not all nightmares and dreams of glory. I have killed my share of the enemy. I think of them, all, much less now, if at all. I'm better now. Last night bear513 wrote of Jake Starkey being "gone". I thought about Jake and the crap he and I have spoken about, argued over, and I thought of him, saddened by the fact that 513 reported him "gone". Then I found out it was all banter and bullshit! I drank myself to sleep. Waking up this morning, I asked my other self "Timmy" to address the folks here at USMB who participated last night in the roasting of Jake. "Timmy" declined and said take out your own trash and do that load of laundry. Kind of reminded me of a time in RVN, on a hill renamed from 913 to "Hamburger Hill". A fairly small unit from the 173d Airborne assaulted that hill for several days trying to dislodge a much larger unit of the NVA. We did and they were pushed off, for the proverbial parking lot improvement program. The point being, the 173d was damn near anhillated in the effort, which at the conclusion of which, units and personnel and equipment from all over RVN was involved. Those tough "little people" did not want to lose that hill and came within an inch of not losing their parking lot. I am much better now, thanks to my wife. I sleep alone, drink alone, listen to my Space Age music alone. I am somewhat more relaxed and thoughtful, but still have a problem with death as was evident in my response concerning the news about Jake. This morning I had to apologize to all involved, something I am also getting used to and grateful for the opportunity. But I am better now, "all better" and ready to fight for that old beautiful "Bald Eagle" pictured above , if asked to do so. So go on with your old bad self, "Political Chick" and "continue to march" and that is an order from your loving and kind "old" First Sergeant. Love ya!