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| Bookers Bourbon and a good cigar  |
And a bag of Dicks! Any dog can be a Guide Dog if you don't care where you're going. NRA ENDOWMENT LIFE MEMBER | |||
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Fuck off. "I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared." Thomas Jefferson | |||
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| My other Sig is a Steyr.  |
Idunno, Fry's has some really big stores. (Sooma learning how to spell stuff would help him get his point across better?) | |||
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A Grateful American |
 "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא עוד | |||
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I can agree with part of your post, not sure about other parts. I served. Then spent a short stint in the VA hospital, followed by 2 years of volenteering the same place followed by 2 years of paid work there. My dad served. My Grandfather served. I've served McDonalds french fries (before service when I was 14 no less -hamburgers for .15/cents, fries were .12/cents and coke was a dime). I've run my own (with a business partner) sucessful and profitable business. I've been blessed and had many great employees, in return, I tryed to be a better boss. I know I failed a few of my employees.(looking at you Bob when your wife passed from COPD and you lost your wife, your car, your house and part of your mind followed by your job) Given how many differing opinions there are on stuff like this OP, I'll refrain from expressing my full view here. I want my service to be in the rearview mirror somewhere, and don't like it when anyone says "thank you for your service". It sounds trite and meaningless to me much like "how are you" when the person doesn't care: so I get part of what you're seemingly cranked about. But I'd rather see us pull together as a country, and to be less decisive. But that's me, after an exra glass of wine and skiing all day no less. Tally ho and regards to all! (My real name's Bill. I was feeling paranoid when I signed up:-) | |||
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SSGT Michael Scott (yeah, Michael Scott  )When I walked into the recruiters office on my 17th birthday I was about 40 pounds overweight enlist and about 50 over what I needed to be to confirm to standards. I’m sure they took one look at me and figured I’d never actually be a Marine. But instead of sending me down the hall or dismissing me SSGT Scott was honest and told me that I had a lot of work to do and that if I showed up the next day he’d start working out with me. I showed up and we went for a walk while he laid out how hard it was going to be but told me if I came back every day he’d be there to help me. For 6 months I went to the office 6 days a week and a recruiter, usually Scott, went on a run with me. Then we’d go back to the office and do work out more. SSGT Scott came to my house and met my parents when I got close to making weight. He gave me a diet plan to follow and spent time with myself and others teaching us our general orders and chain of command and even one Saturday taking us to a local National Guard armory and teaching us how to field strip and clean a M16. When I finally made weight and enlisted I went to the office every day after school and continued to work out with recruiters and other perspective recruits. When I shipped off he wrote me a letter a week. One of the recruiters from the office stopped by my platoon while we were on the rifle range to check in on me, and finally on my graduation day both SSGT Scott and the Captain in charge of the office (I forget his name) attended my graduation. I owe a lot to my recruiters. They not only never lied to me, they were absolutely instrumental in helping me realize my dream of becoming a Marine and celebrated my accomplishments along the way. Personally, while I’m proud of my service it doesn’t define me. I’m proud of a lot of things in my life. I don’t ask for veterans discounts and I don’t stand up at a ballgame or concert when they ask veterans to stand and be recognized. My service doesn’t make me better than anyone. But it for sure doesn’t make me worse. “Everybody wants a Sig in the sheets but a Glock on the streets.” -bionic218 04-02-2014 | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Wow. That's a person I can respect wholeheartedly. He didn't just look at you as a number; he invested a part of his life into you especially with the letters. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Bullshit, it makes you better than you were. That's quite the story, thanks for sharing. _____________________________________________ Proverbs 3:31 "Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways." | |||
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Lest anyone forget what being a member of the armed forces is ultimately about:
It’s not about how much we know about American history and institutions, it’s not about how hard it was or wasn’t to get to this country or become a citizen, it’s not about what a productive job we have, it’s not about how we support society in general, or any other “What a good boy am I” claims we can point to. https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...35/m/9660088815/p/10 ► 6.0/94.0 “I can’t give you brains, but I can give you a diploma.” — The Wizard of Oz | |||
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| A Grateful American |
Thank you. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא עוד | |||
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| Bookers Bourbon and a good cigar |
More give the final sacrifice KC135 crash in Iraq Any dog can be a Guide Dog if you don't care where you're going. NRA ENDOWMENT LIFE MEMBER | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
OP hasn't posted here since he flamed out spectacularly in this thread, LMAO | |||
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| Bookers Bourbon and a good cigar |
Hard to post with all those fries and 1 bag of Dicks up his ass. Any dog can be a Guide Dog if you don't care where you're going. NRA ENDOWMENT LIFE MEMBER | |||
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