[QUOTE=Doriol;16914622]Your average soldier and patriot looks at every middle-easterner as a terrorist.[/QUOTE]
Doriol knows this as fact since he hangs out with so many Soldiers in his backwater home in Oklahoma.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;16860131]Well, the time's finally come. I've finished cleaning my house, preparing the yard, and the food is already sizzling on the grill. The banner's hung, my clothes are laid out, and my checklist is complete. Soon, my guests will start to arrive. They'll come in spurts and trickles over the course of the day. Family members, friends, friends of family members- I'll shake their hands and thank them for arriving to wish me well in the coming months and years.
Monday I leave to fulfill my duties with the US Army. My going away party is today, my last big hurrah with friends and family. Many of these people I won't see again for years, and it's been a rough few days. I've spent every waking moment with the friends I hope to keep for life this past week, and knowing that tonight is finally it has me scared shitless. These are the people I've seen every day for longer than I can remember, my close friends whom I have shared every major experience of my life with. We've trudged through difficult times together, and floated through the good times knowing they wouldn't last forever. I've watched some find love, and others take the first steps towards beginning their adult lives. Monday they'll wake up and continue their routine the same as they always have. They'll go to work, college; they'll kiss their girlfriends, and they'll resume living normal lives. I envy them that.
I'm not scared of what lays ahead, I'm even looking forward to it, but I'm terrified of what I have to leave behind. I've fought back tears more times in this past week than I have since I was a little boy. This is my farewell to everybody. Today, you're all my best friend. I've no enemies, and no wish for any. I want to take everybody into my arms and wish them the best lives possible. Always be happy. Never accept anything less. Don't take what you have for granted.
I don't go to fight or to kill. I don't go for a sense of duty and honor, or to further myself vocationally or educationally. I go because I want you all to be able to continue. Kiss the person you love tonight, enjoy every minute of your job tomorrow. Do your homework quickly, so you can spend your time with the friends you hold closest. Live a lazy life, or reach out for any seemingly impossible achievement you could imagine and know that you have what it takes to win it so long as you're willing to sweat. Live by your code and be happy.
I'll be back in four years for a time at least. This open letter is to my family, my friends, and every stranger I've never had the privilege of meeting. I'll be back, and we can pick up right where we left off. Please, give me the strength I need to leave everything I love behind me for this time. I'm trying as hard as I can to be strong today, but when I step on that bus Monday afternoon everything I've ever been and known is forfeit for a time. I'll be broken and rebuilt, made into a new person. Help me to hold onto the things that make me who I am by promising that your lives will be fruitful, and that you'll be waiting with a smile when I come back. I'm so fucking scared.[/QUOTE]
God bless fucking America!!!!
We're nearing the 2000th mark.
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Bring it on Wordsworth.
[QUOTE=Wordsworth;16914695]We're nearing the 2000th mark.[/QUOTE]
Its been a good run. Might be needing a V2!
I'll kill you with my Communist ways.
No, me.
Oh my
We've been here longer then you, Pinko.
We already won.
5 more
America will rape your ass,now and forever!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh shit.
God Bless America.
regardless, american soldiers serving in Iraq are actively and willfully (they were not drafted) participating in an unjustified conflict
america.
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