K4YZ wrote:
wrote:
KØHB wrote:
wrote
The
Army found that out during the Battle of the Bulge...where every
soldier, regardless of MOS, were suddenly IN "battle." Ever
since the U.S. Army has made it a point to continue basic battle
training long after soldiers have finished basic training.

And your point is?

All sorts of people in all sorts of jobs face danger every day, Len.

The electric wires don't put themselves up, and when a storm knocks
out the power, the crews don't get to wait for a sunny day to fix them.

Jim,

Lens point is that every serviceman and servicewoman in uniform serves with the
understanding that their very life is pledged, at the very real risk of armed
conflict, to serve their fellow man, commonly for material rewards less than
that enjoyed by an Assistant Shift Manager at your local Burger King.

I realize that, Hans, and I honor that pledge and that service. I
apologize if anyone was offended. That was not my intent.

But Len tries to make it sound like no one other than military service
ever faces any danger in their job.

In the past (and probably in the future) Len and I have found all sorts of
reasons to disagree, but on this issue I come down four-square on hisside.
Comparing that pledge which Len, Brian, and several other here took, to the
risks "suffered" by an electric company linemen or a construction worker is mean
spirited and unbecoming.

I did not mean to sound that way. Again, if it sounded that way, I
apologize.

Jim, if you felt an "apology" was warranted, then bravo for you.

No bravos needed, Steve.

The point I was making is that military service people aren't the only
ones
with potentially dangerous jobs, nor a commitment to do what is
necessary
at great risk to themselves. It was not meant in any way to denigrate,
deny
or minimize the commitment and sacrifices made by our military - past,
present
and future.

But what I was trying to say could have been written a *lot* better
than I wrote it.

However if you get into the habit of "apologizing" everytime
someone doesn't like your "tone" or how it MIGHT sound, then you just
spend your whole life apologizing.

In my experience, Hans/K0HB does not offend easily, nor ask for
apologies
lightly. That he was offended by what I wrote proved to me that my post
wasn't
very well written, since my goal was *not* to offend him!

Spending your life with your tail between your legs is no way to
live.

I don't consider anything I've written here to be "my tail between my
legs". Just the
opposite.

73 de Jim, N2EY