My 11/11 story

[PTmowerMech]

That's why i stand.

One of my closest and dearest friends served two tours in Vietnam. He taught me how to drive a semi. He said he didn't think about politics before the first tour. And not much during his time off between tours. Just caught tib bits of stuff. He said what changed his mind was one of the other soldiers looked at him and said "I don't even know these people."
He ended up with two purple hearts and some other medals. I remember him talking about a fight in he got into with someone over the war. After he'd beat the snot out of the guy, he was sitting on his stomach with his finger in his face, he said "All that crap you're yelling is true. But you wasn't there, and I wasn't in command."
That rings sooo true now a days on so many issues. I'll never forget that.

 

[Hammermechanicman]

Too many politicians telling soldiers how to do their job. You will never win a war over polotics, ideology or religion.
Getting down off the soapbox now.

 

[Scrubcadet10]

Some of them are real. Like his ancestors fought for the south in the civil war. So I called his ancestors anti-American. LOL... He got the joke. Even though it was factual.

lol