Veterans Day, 2008

Berkeley Heights, NJ - jack - Thursday, November 13th, 2008 : goo

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I liked the army. Iou would probably think I'm crazy but I liked the army. It brought me to another dimension of myself. It made me more independent, self reliant, a sense of importance, a part of the American Way and a member of a group of men who long ago passed this way and fought for our independence, our country, our life.

I was a pretty good soldier. I was trained by some of Merril's Marrauders, rangers from WWII. They were a rough crew and they trained us roughly, to survive, to fight and win. i was trained as a LRRP (long range recon patrol), my mission was to infiltrate, observe, destroy and escape. I was trained to kill by means of bayonnet or explosives. Funny, I was just a happy, friendly kid in Brooklyn New York, playing stickball on the streets, flirting with girls, going to backyard parties on saturday nights, listening to Alan Freed on the radio, and then i decided to enlist.

I was RA (regular army) and in my white boxer shorts at Whitehall Station in Manhattan and on TV as one of Kennedy's boys. Yep, the girls saw me in my shorts. I went to Fort Dix in Jersey and thought I was a thousand miles away from my home in Brooklyn.

After six months i went to Germany. so if your life is at a standstill, consider the armed forces. actually the air force has the best living conditions, I know this to be a fact because I was sent to Rhine main air force base to load armored personal carriers onto c130's to send to Vietnam and I lived with them for a few weeks and they were like a country club and when I finished that job, I went back to the mountains living in snow, killing my dinner, and training for brutal warfare.

Here I am at 19 or 20:.

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EvilGentleman: Thank you for your service, jack.

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