“May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.”


"This report is maybe 12-years-old. Parliament buried it, and it stayed buried till River dug it up. This is what they feared she knew. And they were right to fear because there's a whole universe of folk who are gonna know it, too. They're gonna see it. Somebody has to speak for these people. You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I'm asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, 10, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people . . . better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave." ~ Captain Malcom Reynolds

Friday, June 13, 2014

Current Events

I asked a Vietnam era vet friend today if this is what guys felt like in April '75. His response was "Pretty much exactly the same."

The world's in a handbasket, and they have cut the rope. I can't decide whether to be frustrated or concerned anymore.


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2 comments:

Old NFO said...

I guess I'd say I'm both... AND pissed off... Us old farts have been 'here' before, and it wasn't any fun that time.

June 14, 2014 at 12:05 PM
Jon said...

I'm not a vet so I can't say I understand. But I've got a buddy who was sent to Iraq and Afghanistan and I know how he feels about it.

And I know how *I* feel about it, because those are two years he can't ever have back, and one of them was only six or eight months after his son was born. He was *proud* of the work they did over there - moreso in Afghanastan but in both cases he felt they were doing something of note and that could matter in the long run.

Now its like they took his hard work and just pissed it down the country's collective leg.

June 16, 2014 at 4:57 PM

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