05-21-2005, 02:26 AM
Occhidiangela,May 20 2005, 09:04 PM Wrote:Doc:
Blue on Blue is an official American military doctrinal term for friendly fire incidents. "Good guy attacks good guy."
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This I knew actually. It does make it more... What's the word I am looking for... Damn I don't know. But to be totally honest, while I knew this, I had not made a mental connection for the military application in some goofy space opera.
And, since we are on the subject of people having body parts lobbed off and replaced with mechanical bits... Very soon I will be spending time with one of my underlings sons. He is done with his duties in Iraq, and it has cost him his legs and part of his face. She is hoping that I can talk some sense into the boy and help him find some sort of will to keep going. I have a lot of experience in dealing, and healing up from traumatic injuries. While I have both my legs, I know all about disfigurement. I can only hope and pray that whatever influence I have will keep this young man from going down the path to his own personal darkside. He has everything down to the knee... So it is very possible for him to walk again. And do so with dignity. The problem, as I see it, will be getting him to want to recover to that point. All he does is sit and stare out the window. Has not said a single word in weeks. Poor kid isn't even old enough to legally buy himself a drink. He just got home from Germany and I guess in about a week or so I will try to spend some time with him.
This war is effecting us all... Anybody else in, or close to, this sort of situation? Anybody have somebody they know coming back minus a few bits?
I spent some time helping to rehab soldiers coming home from another war, this one in some God forsaken jungle. Only I was still a kid then my self. Whole lotta painful memories coming up to the surface in the deep waters of my mind. I am not liking what I am remembering.
All alone, or in twos,
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall.
Some hand in hand
And some gathered together in bands.
The bleeding hearts and artists
Make their stand.
And when they've given you their all
Some stagger and fall, after all it's not easy
Banging your heart against some mad buggers wall.
"Isn't this where...."