After reading some new posts, I am reminded once more of both the terrible sadness and the ironic hilarity of the people suffering from the war. I only read three posts, but two of them really stuck out to me:
The first was a post from a sergeant. It was one of the most hilarious things I have heard all week. The sgt. talked about his Marines. Simply stated, they complained a lot about the horrible living quarters and what they have to go through. He/she continued on with the pitfalls of being in charge of these Marines: dealing with lazy ones, overweight ones, and the ones who want to get married or get divorced. It was called “Safely Handling Radioactive Stupid”—I would highly recommend it to everyone. It was good to know that, as I posted on a comment, all soldiers in the Middle East are not just experiencing doom and gloom.
The second one I read was by an Air Force wife. It was a heart-breaking tale of an experience she had through her children’s school. In signing up for school, the paperwork required information about her husband/their father…and she was simply not ready to be reminded of his absence.
Again, I found myself sort of reeling after reading the milblog again. Those people have so much more passion about what they’re doing, more than anyone I have ever met.
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I read these exact posts. The first one actually pissed me off a little bit though, because I felt that it was disrespectful towards the Marines. The Air Force wife's post was heartbreaking for me, too.
ReplyDeleteFrom reading your post I see that we read the same posts. Not sure what other ones we would read though because there were not many "new" ones to read. Since I do not know much about the army and marines, I was not sure what to feel towards the sergeant completely. The post made by the Air Force wife, though, was disheartening, but good to know about.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I do know a little HTML - once I start working on my wiki more I will let you know if it works.
It is the truth, that these people are definitely passionate. I just wish that American citizens had the same passion for honoring heros fighting for our freedom as soldiers have for defending our country.
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