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Les_the_Sarge_9_1 -> (7/5/2002 10:50:25 PM)
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I can relate to your post 100% Tankhead.
Yes I am a tad young to be a genuine card carrying hippe, but one of my fav songs is after all "If you go to San Francisco".
But even with all that sort of stuff in my mental makeup, I am still very much attached to the world of the military all the same.
I see people that make foul remarks about us "warmongers", and well, those people on average, are just pitiful, uneducated, morons, barely worthy of the protection so many of us have died to provide.
The only thing providing the freedom those fools like to sing about, is us damnit. No flag burning jerk protestor every did anything useful in securing the peace "they just want to give a chance to".
Forget chances, I sleep better knowing the people that would take my freedom, will have to die trying to take it from me.
During the Gulf war an insane psycho therapy psychiatric lost cause waste of a PHd was on a TV talk show commenting on how "playing wargames" was not really a suitable way of supporting the valiant efforts of the boys in the desert.
How would the dumb bimbo even know. They don't teach military history in psyche 101. They spend their time learning soft fuzzy quasi science.
During the Gulf I watch the news fairly regularly. I KNOW what the guys were enduring. Same things the "guys" endured during the fighting around Tobruk in 40-41-42.
But this lame brain psychiatrist couldn't possible make that leap. They don't teach them anything about the real world in psychiatry.
I don't "play wargames" to "support" anyone. I am not doing it out of emptahic sympathy.
When I have Steel Panthers playing the artillery is on slow function. Why? cause I want to watch my artillery pound the snot out of the other side.
Does that make me some sort of vicious lunatic? Nope.
Only a dangerous lunatic thinks the game is real. No one is dying.
I am recreating an historical event, and amusing myself examinining it. And that's the extent of it. No hidden qualities.
The only lunatics present, are the loonies that generated the actual event, such that I have it as a point of history to study.
And in almost all cases, the person that started to event' had not clue one about the repercussions, because they hadn't studied enough history to know the consequences.
Man if I had been in the room with you Tankhead, those jerks would likely have avoided the area for a long time out of sheer fear.
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