Indirect Approach/Information Campaign evolves

[MikeF]

Ken- we're actually on the same page. Instead of simply getting out of the military or whatever, i'm just throwing out categorical statements for consideration...

IMO, clouded by shades of deployments, the public is misinformed but partisoned nonetheless...As I redeploy time and again, I'm upset from the internal focus of IPODs and blackberries to no regard.

I'm simply trying to make sense of it all.

I suppose that's therapy in a way....I'm just trying to find solutions and understanding...

Inadvertantly, this has become my life's work.

As my boy from dartmouth put it today, "this country is in need and i think that i can serve." In the end, that's all we can do.



v/r

Mike

[Ken White]

Ken- we're actually on the same page.

and I did this too:

Instead of simply getting out of the military or whatever, i'm just throwing out categorical statements for consideration...

Still had to end up sorting out most of my own answers...

IMO, clouded by shades of deployments, the public is misinformed but partisoned nonetheless...As I redeploy time and again, I'm upset from the internal focus of IPODs and blackberries to no regard.

Hear that, know the feeling. This country hasn't been to war since 1945. Neither has the Pentagon. Elements of all the Armed Forces have a bunch of times in the last 63 years. On balance, I think that's a good thing -- but I know full well it can be annoying as all get out...

I'm simply trying to make sense of it all.

Gimme a holler if you do -- I'm still trying...

As my boy from dartmouth put it today, "this country is in need and i think that i can serve." In the end, that's all we can do.

Roger that. 45 years and no regrets and my worst (and fortunately brief) job was at the ROTC Det at a University in Florida.

It is indeed all we can do. The good news is that more people really and sincerely appreciate that than one normally realizes...

Keep on pushing!

[MikeF]

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful of others,
Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man,
Stuffed with the stuff that is coarse, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine. . .
These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me,
If they are not yours as much mine they are nothing or next to nothing,
If they do not enclose everything they are next to nothing. . .

-Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass


The funny thing is that he wrote his poems to pick up women...In another life, he would've been a paratrooper....

As always Ken, I appreciate the insight....