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BakingStallingDraggingRollingThunder2016

Page history last edited by jerry 7 years, 10 months ago

BakingStallingDraggingRollingThunder2016

 


 

Introduction/Definition/etc

 

Not sure what to make of a non experience there, and others are likely still that way from Vietnam and other conflicts...

 

Body

 

So been to SpringBreak2013  then Sturgis2013  and some time off,

finally worked up the nerve/gall to try RollingThunder, locally...

 

In a month of BicycleMonth2016 and other trying times like Politics Final Four or whatever, is going on now, politically...

 

BackDrop

 

I can't really say much about the history, and that is part of the dilemma, of soldiers, and conflict, secrets, and toxicity, as doing confidentiality, national security and later WikiLeaks, tell all books are not really popular amongst some communities...  Dishing out your foxhole buddies/gals, or whatever the female version is...  Not a hit, maybe a sniper revenge, but not a hit, smash, or whatever parade language is available...

 

If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all, but adding Lies of Omission, and it gets Catch-22 very quickly...

 

 

Distancing

 

Several meanings on this, time heals all wounds, but not really, if you lose your legs in a conflict, say an IED goes off, and lost arms and legs, you have still lost them...  Even if time marches on, you might not, wheel chairs don't do steps, accessibility only goes so far, glass ceilings, the Main Lincoln Memorial and Capital Building steps, not the side / back servant's entrance(s), etc...

 

 

Incendiary Comments

 

There is no right way to say some things, and Trump and others are proving that, Wearing an orange Elmer Fudd type hunting hat of Getting America Back to What It Was, or similar: meaning it is broken, not just the last 8 years of the other competing party but all the good stuff that allowed Trump and others to gather such wealth, in the first place, was that broken too?  Is he the fixer?  Is it not going to recreate? Now sterile???

 

Assuming kids read this, and try to interpret it directly, without a group class discussion, and to write in response, to teachers and others, school papers, etc,  A lot of this is not really writing but thinking out loud, the arguments are in draft form, perpetually, and other disclaimers, like JD Salinger (Catcher and the Rye)/Souther (music?), or similar, others can read a lot into stuff, and not really represent what was said in the first place...  Not that this represents most nor even my real experience, communication difficulties, not having complete information, fact checking difficult in many environments, and just lack of info and energy, makes some of this a muddled mess, but here it is, and the feelings of loss and mourning are ripe with that anyways: what could I have done differently? Why did they have to die?  Why do we go to war?  Who serves?  Who doesn't? How did they serve?  The best course of action, given the assessment of the situation, obviously biased in the first place...

 

Is civil service all Military?  Support units are therefore combat ready?  Even if not seen fire?

Back Office just as important as the front lines?  Or just division of labour?

 

Abstraction

 

More of above...

Leaving out details, difficult to do if detail oriented, and get vague and philosophical, go back to cliches and other generalities,  losing meaning until not sure what we are talking about in the first place, almost a magic 8 ball answer to stuff anyways...

 

Symbolism

 

The flag means a lot to many people

Memorial Day means a lot to many people, not just about military service, as kids it was the unofficial and sometimes official start of summer, most importantly, the outdoor swimming pools open!

School might not be out, High School that is, but at least we can transition into summer mode,

Schools out for Summer, Schools out for ever, ...  /LaLaLa,

but as you get older, you might get further and further from that fact / feeling/ observation/ observance...

Beached Whale Syndrome, and not going out to the beach, pool, shorts, etc..

All the way to vericose veins, and other problems of heat and weight, etc...

 

Be Kind

 

After an almost realistic experience raising my bottom, baking in the mid day prime time for burning (10a-2p or 10:00 to 14:00 mil like time... Zulu is too hot, just local time...) sun for hour(s), a fair haired person who didn't bring a hat, doesn't wear sunscreen (gets in my eyes, allergic, etc), Rock Lobster was my ticket to the Skin Cancer Ward, even sailing as a kid, yeah sounds like Fortunate Son, but also lost Dad, and others, two other family members served in military, Grandfather, and Uncle, at least...

 

News Flash: You might not be the only one grieving...

 

Not sure who might go off on something, Why? Is it about you?

Why take it personally?

How can he/she/it say such things, I thought they/you were, x,y,z?

 

No Photos/ Video

 

Waiting area I stumbled into was on the Pentagon parking area, auxiliary units, of sort, slug lines, and near the toilets, so, following signs but not covered signs, many were, but I could not, despite wearing two cameras, trying a back harness, to see behind, trying to escape the sun, leaned back to sit with back on a wall, on the curb essentially, and broke the bracket for the harness, and there goes $30 or something, ... 

Couldn't reach it anyways...

Remember: I Must try Wifi, and other WearableCameras2015 sometime?

 

 

Links

 

 

News Accounts Spanned the Spectrum:

 

Sunday:

 

One Percent of Americans Serve, Militarily

Meme Wars?

 

Trump Woes Bikers?

 

 

Monday:

 

Obama at Arlington National Cemetery

 

 

Conclusion

 

Summary of experience or similar

 

Still not sure what to make of it...

Not timely reporting to wait too long, but makes you say, WTF?

ClusterF***, and other SnafFu (sp?), and other terms usually used by drunken Sailors, and others on leave, of their senses and political/ career repercussions...

 

Hyperbole?  I think not?

 

Clowning?

 

An option for levity, not really with tradition?

 

This took a while, I was funny, or so I thought with a usual bicycle amongst motorcycles, civilian amongst military, black clown nose amongst biker vest and those working the event, security forces, etc...

 

Suffer in silence, but psychologically, usually you are only as sick as your secrets, so tell secrets, your personal ones, not others, nor the countries?  To survive? Is that betrayal?

Death before Dishonour?

Approached by press and only say Name, Rank and Serial Number?

 As if they are the enemy?

Loose lips sink ships?

 

 

Discussion

 

A place for feedback on the page presented

 

How old do you have to be to give it all up for your country?

For your family?

For yourself?

 

Is it God before Country?

How about other religions?

Isn't religious freedom part of that?

You don't have to be Catholic?  Protestant, Jewish/Hebrew, Muslim, Pagan, Hindu, etc?

 

The melting pot approach to can't we all just get along?

Or at the boiling point , burning off the rhetoric, the crucible approach to bull shit, for lack of a better word?

 

Or just pundits, bloggers, radicals, protesters, whack jobs, nut jobs and other castaways to mainstream society, or isn't that how we started America anyways?  Tea party, starts war, and we do the American Revolution, against the British...

 

 

 

License

 

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