The next HBO/Spielberg/Hanks WW2 miniseries is a go...

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

But that's exactly how you sound as you say it.


That's fine. What you can't understand yet is that you do see war as a glorious thing. We all do when we're young. And it is that very attitude that helps wars come about. Yes, you should be prepared to defend what you believe in. You should also pray that you never have to. If you do you'll end up like Sherman. And you may never recover.

I don't mean to make it sound that way. I understand that war is a horrible, horrible, horrible thing to go through. I don't want to go to war, but I will if my country needs me. All I want to do is fly in the military. I want to do something I love while protecting what I love. Yes, I am young. I have uncles with PTSD. I know the horrors of war. The discovery channel did a documentary about my uncle's unit; 2nd Bn, 27th Infantry, or The Wolfhounds. It's called God's Soldier. It's on youtube. My uncle served as a doctor for one of the most dangerous postings in Northern Iraq. He lost buddies left and right. He told me about a period of time where they had "Ramp Ceremonies" almost every day. People were dropping like flies. There was a fellow from actually within 50 miles of where I live who was in that unit. He was shot through the neck on guard duty and my uncle was the one to work on him....There is now a stretch of road outside of Cape Girardeau, Missouri with his name on it. It's a sad thing. I don't want to be a stretch of road or a white gravestone but I am prepared to take the risk. I don't think war is glorious and a good thing. Yes, there are certain things that I find interesting every once in a while. I like learning about Allied operations in the Pacific. I think it can be interesting sometimes to learn about the terribly horrible things that our guys had to live through. I don't glorify it. That's simply the way it happened. I once heard that the Japanese would strap a guy to the ground and plant bamboo underneath him so that the bamboo would grow into the man and impale him slowly. I found that odd. I wanted to know more. Yes, it was interesting at the time but I do not glorify dying this way. I don't glorify anything about it. Heck, I'm not even completely sure it was the Japanese. It might've been the Vietcong. I don't remember the full story. I don't even know if that story is completely true. It's true that I respect the men who died in those horrible ways. Anyone who can fight for their country deserves respect. No matter how much I do not like that country, those people are stepping up (Knowing that they might not come back) to defend what they think is right. Unless it's service by requirement, I'm sure a lot of those guys don't want to fight. I might be going back on things I've said before. I try to keep a neutral opinion online. I don't want to drift too far to my personal opinion (im sure you would really hate me then) because I'm very conservative and I don't want to offend anyone with certain comments that would be okay in general talking around Southern Missouri. Some people around here can be very racist. Some are extremely against Muslims. I, personally, don't think that being racist against Obama will fix our problem. I don't think that "nuking every last Hajji out there" will fix the Middle East. It won't solve any problems to do that kind of stuff. I try to keep neutral and open minded. When it comes to the defense of my country, I am very strongly opinionated in one direction. Here on Subsim, the European Liberals like to cut down people like me. It is what it is. There are always people out there willing to accuse me of "Glorifying war" and cutting down every statement I make. I'm simply trying to stay neutral without exposing some of my more extreme opinions. I could go on all day about how I think this country is going in the wrong direction. I might not be able to justify some of it with facts, but it is an OPINION! Opinions are not always completely based on fact. They teach you that in Elementary English Class. It can be influenced by where you are from, what your family thinks/does, and what your religion says/does. I'm Catholic and I think Abortion is a terrible thing, but I guarantee there are some Pro-Choice people on here somewhere to cut down my argument with what they think is right. I think that there is something seriously wrong with our handling of illegal immigration. We are fighting a war here in America and nobody cares. Why? Because Mitt Romney was right when he said that 47% of America won't get up and get a job.

I know that you will pick apart this post sentence by sentence and give me a grilling about how I'm wrong. Opinions don't always have to be correct. Hitler had an opinion about how the Jews were bad. He backed it up with a few facts and some creative speeches. People believed him. I just today watched a PBS documentary about Antisemitism in the US during World War 2. Jews are not the cause of all of Germany's problems. The Jews are not terrible people. Same thing with current Muslim conflicts. There will be some bad apples in the bunch. Some groups are more prone to bad apples than others but Muslims can be a peaceful people.


I think the quote that August posted was great. Critics can say and do what they want. The man in the arena is trying. The Critics can talk about how he's doing it wrong or he believes in the wrong things all they want. The man in the arena won't care. He is there because he wants to be there. I have a quote to add here too...

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent"

I'm not sure who said that, but it's on a poster that ive seen many times. You guys can try and try, but you can't change the way I feel without my consent. I can give in to do what the Critic wants or I can have faith in my task that I volunteered for. If I want to fly, I will fly. You can't change the way i live my life because you accuse me of glorifying something that is unpopular among Europeans. I live in Hillbilly Country. Of course war is going to be supported by us Rednecks. There is no changing that. Hillbilly Country will be Hillbilly Country for a long time. There are people around here willing to fight in a Civil War to keep our gun rights. There is a great difference of opinion around here on Subsim. You will call us "silly ol' hics that need to go back to their shack and rethink this." Guns are important to the people around here. We do not commit mass shootings. We hunt. We target shoot. We defend our homes. If our right to defend ourselves was taken away, most of the people around here would fight up a storm. I know people predicting what's going to happen. Some are saying that gun control will pass, Civil War 2 will break out, and we will be fighting the United Nations. Some say that it won't pass and we'll be fine.

It's all a big mess and everyone has their own opinion. A lady once told me that "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion" every time I mentioned Politics. She was right. Everyone can think how they want to.

I'm done ranting now. Go ahead and tell me i'm wrong.