I love to watch people's faces when they start talking about ehat makes them happy, or what they love, or just talking about life and getting stuff off their back.
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· 7 years ago
Me too,Because I love it when somebody allows me to do so. It's fair that I enjoy someone too.
Astronomy. Get me revved up about Astronomy and watch me go. I don't just get excited or passionate... I get animated. I wave my arms and jump up and down. I shout and make voices.
I make sound effects like nnnyyyooommm! WHOOSH! KA-BOOOOOM!!
I draw on the blackboard if I have one and I just might start climbing furniture.
I've mentioned this before but it's a funny little story. Back in the Army, at the begining of a guard shift, I overheard someone say, "Man you out on point 4 tonight? Who with? Smitty? Nah, you'll be fine. You might even want to take notes."
This was the same exercise where the Lieutenant asked me to go easy on using the night vision goggles for stargazing because guard points I was at overnight seemed to go through batteries a little faster.
That's really cool and brave and respectable.
I hope you don't mind but I always needed to ask this, to a person who had served in the Army.
What are your thoughts about Hollywood portraying soldiers.
It's a mixed bag. Some movies have done it well, particularly more recent ones.
To be fair, I haven't seen too many lately, but I've heard good things.
You gotta remember, military personnel are still human. All those needs wants and desires. Showing them as flawed heros, humans with emotions under extreme stess, I'd say has been pretty close to reality in the ones I've seen.
Kinda hard to describe often. Sometimes there's a subtle thematic undercurrent that most miss, but military will pick up on it almost right away with comments like, "oh yeah, that's like the time back in *," or "that is sooo just like Jonesy."
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I am very much into War movies or movies involving soldiers. I have also started The Punisher. And one of the main focus of the story is PTSD among soldiers.
Is it that bad. Like, do people snap? And I think The Punisher has done justice to the portrayal of soldiers. What do you think about that? I mean you have seen The Punisher. It's on Netflix.
I haven't seen the Punisher, but to summarize PTSD... while I'm fortunate to not have any direct first hand experience with it, it isn't as bad as the media and pop culture would have you think.
It's worse. The media would do well to shine a light on the matter to expose its horrors and how poorly the VA is treating the vets if they are even recieving care at all.
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I am sorry I forgot to put if in front of that.
And Man. I don't have words about the conditions of vets. I mean, I haven't encountered many soldiers in my 17 years of life. But I haven't heard cases of them in soldiers here. I mean it's also fair. There are constant tours of Iran and Afghanistan for the American soldiers. Here soldiers border patrol and look out for cease fires. And I am not saying that, that isn't an important Job, I am saying that they don't go to war that much.
And doesn't the country looks out about PTSD among them? And also what is VA?
The VA is the Veteran's Administration.
Does the country look out for them... us, for PTSD? Not really.
The proper answer is far more nuanced and intricate, but the TL;DR is no. Mistreatment and lack of care for veterans is a tradition as old as this country. That is not a joke or exaggeration. After the Revolution was won, the very first thing the civilian leadership did was deny their pay and there was almost a military coup over it.
That was not an isolated incident either.
Periodically due to gross mismanagement of the budget, every few years, their ability to even pay the military their basic paycheck they are under contract to pay, is called into question.
Do you think a government like that is capable of providing proper post service care and support?
Had I know then what I know now... it would have been a much harder decision to make.
What I have been given by fate lately though, I wouldn't want to change a thing. What I endured, while it pales in comparison, it still had brought me here.
I make sound effects like nnnyyyooommm! WHOOSH! KA-BOOOOOM!!
I draw on the blackboard if I have one and I just might start climbing furniture.
I like that song. Thank you.
I hope you don't mind but I always needed to ask this, to a person who had served in the Army.
What are your thoughts about Hollywood portraying soldiers.
To be fair, I haven't seen too many lately, but I've heard good things.
You gotta remember, military personnel are still human. All those needs wants and desires. Showing them as flawed heros, humans with emotions under extreme stess, I'd say has been pretty close to reality in the ones I've seen.
Kinda hard to describe often. Sometimes there's a subtle thematic undercurrent that most miss, but military will pick up on it almost right away with comments like, "oh yeah, that's like the time back in *," or "that is sooo just like Jonesy."
Is it that bad. Like, do people snap? And I think The Punisher has done justice to the portrayal of soldiers. What do you think about that? I mean you have seen The Punisher. It's on Netflix.
It's worse. The media would do well to shine a light on the matter to expose its horrors and how poorly the VA is treating the vets if they are even recieving care at all.
And Man. I don't have words about the conditions of vets. I mean, I haven't encountered many soldiers in my 17 years of life. But I haven't heard cases of them in soldiers here. I mean it's also fair. There are constant tours of Iran and Afghanistan for the American soldiers. Here soldiers border patrol and look out for cease fires. And I am not saying that, that isn't an important Job, I am saying that they don't go to war that much.
And doesn't the country looks out about PTSD among them? And also what is VA?
Does the country look out for them... us, for PTSD? Not really.
The proper answer is far more nuanced and intricate, but the TL;DR is no. Mistreatment and lack of care for veterans is a tradition as old as this country. That is not a joke or exaggeration. After the Revolution was won, the very first thing the civilian leadership did was deny their pay and there was almost a military coup over it.
That was not an isolated incident either.
Periodically due to gross mismanagement of the budget, every few years, their ability to even pay the military their basic paycheck they are under contract to pay, is called into question.
Do you think a government like that is capable of providing proper post service care and support?
Had I know then what I know now... it would have been a much harder decision to make.
What I have been given by fate lately though, I wouldn't want to change a thing. What I endured, while it pales in comparison, it still had brought me here.