Stuck in contract with the devil

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How long is the class on how to wave a white flag?

 

Does anyone remember the name of that newbie that got a "free CDL", signed a contract to work for the trucking company after they were handed their CDL, and then actually did what they promised?

Quitting your way to success rarely works.

 

Those are tough guys; mostly Eastern Europeans.
Waving a white flag is a rumor only.

 

woof. Wave a 100 at them. Whistle at em to fetch it, but first they have to do something for me for it...

Easy. They are fixated on that dollar. Dreaming of the excesses and debauchery that they will do after they get it. (Over my dead body somewhere in a dumpster...)

 

You know, I’m proud I served, but I wasn’t paid very well. I was a Ranger in the Army, worked many times with folks in Special Forces. I participated in quite a few operations...

I look back on it as I did what I had to do... my sons won’t do it... I’ll make sure of that, and I won’t ever go and do that again. Going to war changes you. My therapy helped with the fear... but it did nothing to my fearlessness. It made me stronger and weaker, and gave me the ability to recognize it.

You don’t consider the reasons you went to war until it’s over and you recognize you’ll never go again... it’s only then that you truly see the ramifications of what the war... and you, did.

Judging someone for that to me personally is an insult... you can say whatever you want about a war... how much of a waste it was... but that criticism should fall on those that put us there, not those that were sent.

None of us wanted to truly be there. Some were crazier than others... everyone copes differently. But the idea that we were paid to kill.., or that somehow we were happy to be in such a crappy place fighting?

Yeah that’s a big No.

 

...and I fought with Those Legionnaires, the French Army are the guys with white flags... the men from the legion are much like the British SAS.... a regular Joe would come out looking like a guy who was in a hatchet fight and didn’t have a hatchet had he messed with the legion.

 

I am a student of Civil War which is my center of learning more or less. I also have uncovered and followed from actual muster cards signed by grandfather his entry into the 79th Infantry Baltimore for France after training and then additional training to run trench guns (Early mortars) against the Germans in Malancourt which formed the center left of Gen Pershings American Corps. We had a target straight for the Crown Prince himself and his fighting HQ at a church with 8 foot stone walls that stood for hundreds of years 9 miles upgrade against ground that was dug in place by them for 3 years prior. The division was savaged being green and new however despite the betrayal of another division due to it's general refusing to cross a "Phase line" and enter Malacourt from the rear. That would have captured the Crown Prince and opened a hole that would lead to Peace Talks Grandfather as a corporal of his company D 313th heavy weapons suffered burns and mustard etc as well when the germans found his base of fire trench. They still had 6 miles of open fields and then 3 miles of forest that is being torn apart by American Artillery and turned into a hellscape. Anything bigger than a bird got hit.

The War College in Gettysburg did a formal study of that fight and one author managed to uncover more details of the betrayal of the one infantry division that found themselves able to swing right and slam the door on the crown prince allowing the 79 to sunder the main german battle line that was in place 3 years. But that general said he aint doing a #### thing. Both divisions got torn apart. But they managed.

We were the first recorded use of BAR autos .30-06 automatics in 20 rounds. Chopped up the Germans who did not know how to do anything with it. Horrible work those guns were then but it was what was required.

To the day he died that grandfather did not breathe one word of the war and what he had seen. And so it became a standard in our family teaching children of every generation to hate war on sight but at the same time take the trouble to remember our history written in blood. What a mess.

Sorry for the story. You spoke alot about war and I wanted to show that at least one of us here understand the futility of same.

 

Yep, anyone wanna trade nightmares?

 

P608, you’re welcome anytime to share... PM me anytime...