From: on Dec 10, 1:14 pm

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From: on Dec 9, 6:28 pm
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Jim, is this what you meant when you said that you "served in other
ways?"

Brian,

You have written that phrase as a direct quote, and attributed it to
me.

Where have I written that I 'served in other ways'?

So you haven't "served in other ways?"

September 24, 2004; January 13, February 10, May 25 2005. shrug

Len, thanks for serving up the specific dates of his attempts to claim
some kind of honors, but he's just not worth my time.

Agreed. Jimmie MUST have quotes that are EXACT and WORD-FOR-
WORD. Amazing. He can't understand that other people read
the entirety of his boasting claims of doing more than others
and doing it oh-so-much-better.

At the very same time he tries to dump on everyone who
disagrees with HIM, be they veterans or not. "Patriotism?"
Hardly.


All my postings to newsgroups are in Google. Please
provide a link to the posting(s) where I wrote what you
claim I wrote.

At's OK. I'll take your word for it that not only haven't you served,
but that you haven't "served in other ways."

Jimmie "serves" ceasar salads at the O-club on Satiddy nights.
[hail ceasar...]

He reminds me of Madeliene Al(most)bright saying that America no longer
needs the "Marine Culture." Woefully uninformed. She's not worthy to
preside over a barrel-burning detail for our deployed troops.

Neither is Jimmie.

Maddie WAS Secretary of State at one time, though. Wonder if
Jimmie could wear a nice dress and heels as Condi's replacement?


Jimmie loves to re-argue, re-argue, re-argue old, old postings'
content, perhaps hoping to THIS TIME being able to win one...:-)

Hmmmm? OK, if he wants to reargue what he says he didn't say...

Brian, any quote attributed to him MUST be WORD-FOR-WORD or
"he never said any such thing."

He changes his boundary conditions to put himself in the "right"
anywhichwayhecan.


Jimmie be the "silent majority" type of wannabe...or maybe a
Better-Than? He is "superior" and without fault in whatever he
does. Just ask him and he will confirm that.

It's funny. A few years ago, I was surrounded by people serving in the
military, and it almost appeared that everyone did. Most of us had
been to the desert, to Honduras, to Korea, etc, etc, etc.

Now that I'm out here with the "civils," its eye-opening and shocking.

I understand. Been there, done that. Of course, I did it far
further back than most, but I never forgot it.

A great problem with these "civils" is that, not being anywhere
close to danger themselves, everything military is like a movie
or TV show. All the actors come alive after the show is over
and go on to play other parts in other shows later. Ain't so
in the military. Once dead, completely dead. No SAG or SEG
rules about resurrection for them. The military's environment
is not a comfortable living room or an air conditioned theater.

Jimmie said "I was 'safe' in Tokyo." The Russkies "couldn't
reach us with aircraft" or some dumb thing like that. Had he
seen some rather elaborate plans for shelters and op-orders on
what to do when the crap entered the cyclone, he would have
probably complained about excess spending or equivalent. In the
1950s the Russkies DID have various delivery systems for
special weapons. Jimmie doesn't want to believe that. Being
safe in his crib in the yew-knighted-states, nobody was going to
nuke HIM! :-) Ergo, nobody was going to nuke anyone. He went
out of his way trying to barf on those of us who were OUT THERE
one helluvalot closer to danger than HE ever was.

Be that as it may, most of the vets I've talked to who served
off-shore were both cognizant of danger close-at-hand but also
optimistic as to their survival. The vast majority of us
survived and came back to the "civils," uncivil though some of
them were.

My outfit did communications. We did it well, got two
Presidential Unit Citations for it while I was there. We did
communications of the most direct means possible then, didn't
play at it as some amateur did with the "NTS" and their
"official radiograms." At the same time we had to keep up with
ordinary soldiering skills, summed up by the primary mission
phrase "...to close with, and destroy, the enemy."

I like to think that the guys in my outfit could, if needs be,
carry out their primary mission as soldiers. None of us
wanted any "test" of whether or not we were. I thank God
there wasn't any. Braggarts and hero-wannabes say the opposite,
that they could/did "fight" anyone (with the jaw-bone of an
ass...their own). See hero of seven hostile actions, Dudly
the Imposter.


Give Jimmie some slack(s). He might be organizing a charity
group in memory of fallen hippie linemen who tye-dyed on active
duty in the 60s?

If Jim want's to make some legitimate claim to how he served, then he
can make it.

Hmphhh...the O-clubs still need waiters. Burger King still
needs servers.

If not then he can go to his grave regretting how he
misspent his youth or how he "served in other ways" that are the
equivalent of military service in his mind. Sad.

He knows no better. He will never allow himself to be with
fault. Ergo, he is always right...others are always "wrong"
if they disagree with him.

Lately, Jimmie has become an "expert" on regional real estate
and urban zoning. He "knows exactly" all about every situation
involving those two areas. He made some weird analogies to
opinions I've expressed, analogies that have NO relationship
whatsoever. That was all geared to make me look "bad,"
essential to make him "look good" and be without fault. It
didn't work, was incorrect...but Jimmie thinks it did and
Jimmie is the only one that counts. shrug