Whoa fellas, I said show me where I have insulted vets. I didn't say desperately spin my posts.
First of all I want to touch on the issue of the parade OCA brought up.
A couple of months just before I was going to graduate from high school it dawned on me that there was something peculiar about these vet parades, something was missing. I talked it over with a girlfriend of mine and she agreed that I had a valid point.
We went to see this old man whom lived in the hood. This old guy was active in the vet parade and vet get togethers.
Every night this old man would sit in his car all by himself and get drunk. He never drove his car, he would just sit in it and get drunk. If you talked to this guy; all he would do is lament about how he wished he never got married and stayed in the service for life. As far as his wife goes she would go out and make a cuckold out of the old guy everynight.
My girlfriend and I came up to this old man asked him if he would take my idea to the next vet meeting. He asked me what my idea was. So I told him, which is this, In the next parade why don't you guys take a casket drapped with a flag along with you. He refused to bring that idea up to the next vet meeting.
My girlfriend and I showed up in the next vet meeting. I introduced my idea to the meeting. The vets did not appreciate my idea. All I asked was for them to let my dad participate in the parade. I didn't mean in the literal sense, but symbolic, like a cardboard box painted black with a flag drapped over it. The main thing is my dad gets to participate in the parade.
I was torn apart when I left that meeting. Thank God I had my girlfriend there to comfort me.
My girlfriend came up with this idea that I go and talk to the parade organizers and see if they'll let me enter my dad into the parade. All of you here at usmessageboard probably guessed I got turned down.
This is where we get to OCA's bogus claim that he knows what my dad is thinking. Did any of you click on that link I provided? Why not? if you don't know the link I'm talking about it's right here:
http://www.sirnosir.com
OCA claims my dad hates me. There comes a time in a man's life when he talks to his parents about important decisions. In my case my mom is the only parent I could talk to. When I a sophomore in high school I talked to mom about joining the service after I get out of high school. The fact that I brought it up crushed her.
When two people are married there is an intimacy they share. My dad wanted my mom to pass something on to me should he never make it back alive. That initimacy is between me and my father and my mother. Because I'm not going to share that initmacy, I point all of you in the direction of the link I provided.
My father would be proud of me because I am not one of those people that live by the moral standard which is "my country right or wrong".
I'm one of those people where if I feel this nation's policy is wrong, then I'm going to say that it is wrong and my saying so doesn't make me any less of an American and it certainly doesn't mean I dis vets.
Those vets in that link felt the war was wrong. My father felt the war was wrong. Unfortunately he realized it only when he got over there. Unfortunately he came back in a box.
OCA, CSM, and P are alive, my dad is not. You want to know how old my dad was when he died? he was 23 years old. Barely out of his childhood.
I almost forgot. Back to the parade. My girlfriend and I realized that nobody wanted my dad in the parade. We came up with a plan. Most of you have seen the platforms they set up, where there is someone speaking through a cheap public address system, announcing the groups that pass by. We positioned ourselves across the street from the platform where the organizers can see us. When it came time for the vets to go by and the announcer tells everyone to stand up and salute the vets, my girlfriend and I remained seated on the curb, because the whole bullshit dissed my dad, because the whole bullshit was too embarrassed, just like the Pentagon and the media is to embarrassed to show all of you Americans on a nightly basis the flag drapped coffins that comes home from Iraq. The Pentagon and the media is the whole bullshit too.
I end this post with a lyric from the Unknown Soldier
Wait until the war is over
And we're both a little older
The unknown soldier
Breakfast where the news is read
Television children fed
Unborn living, living, dead
Bullet strikes the helmet's head
And it's all over
For the unknown soldier
It's all over
For the unknown soldier
Hut
Hut
Hut ho hee up
Hut
Hut
Hut ho hee up
Hut
Hut
Hut ho hee up
Comp'nee
Halt
Preeee-zent!
Arms!
Make a grave for the unknown soldier
Nestled in your hollow shoulder
The unknown soldier
Breakfast where the news is read
Television children fed
Bullet strikes the helmet's head
And, it's all over
The war is over
It's all over
The war is over
Well, all over, baby
All over, baby
Oh, over, yeah
All over, baby
Wooooo, hah-hah
All over
All over, baby
Oh, woa-yeah
All over
All over
Heeeeyyyy
CSM, OCA and P **** off.