Treeman: Yeah, I'm here. I've just taken an aversion to the recent war/political threads of the last month or so. To everyone: Yes, I've joined the Army as well. I plan on starting a thread before I leave to say good bye to everyone here for awhile, and I will do that, but I've still got a month or so before I have to ship out. I will also be an artillery man, in the same MOS as Treeman: 13 Foxtrot, Fire-Support Specialist. I'll be pointing big ass guns at the bad guys and blowing them straight to hell before they can get to me and other Americans. Same as Treeman, I will also go to Fort Sill, Oklahoma for Basic Training and Artillery School. If ya'll remember, I started a thread some time ago about job trouble after I graduated from college. I was thinking about joining the Army back then, so this is nothing new for me. I enlisted in Combat Arms (Field Artillery) to pay my military dues as an enlisted soldier in a combat unit, rather than going straight into Officer Candidate School. I'm also getting my student loans paid off and some nice cash bonuses to boot, as well as starting as an E-4 (Specialist) in rank. But the #1 reason NOW, is that I'm angry. I'm angry at what those f*ckers did to us, and I want to fight for the freedom that they want to take away from us. I will fight so that American children can sleep at night. I will fight to keep American women and children safe. I will fight for freedom. I will fight for my beloved country. And although I am ashamed to think of people like Glynch and Boy as "My fellow Americans," I will fight for their right to say things that really piss me off. My reasons are simple to my recent aversion to threads like this one: Since 9/11, I have come to realize that there are a few people on this board who I would love to beat the sh*t out of, and my time for violence will come soon enough. Plain and simple as that. I am willing to go to war, I am willing to kill, and I am willing to BE killed to defend Glynch and Boy's right to hate this country and what it stands for. Is the U.S. utopia? Is the U.S. perfect? Are all Americans perfect? The answer is a resounding "NO" to all of those questions. Keeping that in mind, I firmly believe that despite its faults, the U.S. is the greatest country in the world. To expect that we can be so perfect as to never make a mistake, or to never piss off another country/culture/religion is nothing short of lunacy. Also, keeping our faults in mind, why are so many people from these very countries who "hate" us lining up to get in? The answer is simple: The United States of America is the greatest country in the world, and for the most part everyone around the world knows it. F.D. Kahn: Though I disagree with most of what you have to say concerning our ME policy, I respect you. I respect how you handle yourself as a Muslim in light of all of this. I also greatly appreciate your respectfulness, your honesty, and your civility. And I wish your brother well, from a soldier to a sailor. Glynch and Boy: When you are hiding in your holes belching out your distaste of this country, you two keep in mind that the very people you hate are RIGHT NOW fighting to preserve your right to express your twisted lies and propagandistic viewpoints. Go Rockets. Go Army. Go America.
lynus and treeman -- don't want to sound too corny here, but thank you. i'm the father of a 2-year old son...you know what i mean...thank you.
I want to thank you both as well. I would also like to thank Khan for his statement that America "is the most Muslim" country. Diversity of opinion, race, culture, and religion is what makes America the greatest country in the world. I firmly believe that to be true, and I celebrate it everyday.
Max and CM: Thanks for the thanks. I don't want to sound cliched here, but I'm not doing this for thanks or personal glory, I'm doing this for my country. Still though, the thanks is greatly appreciated all the same. God Bless America
treeman, I disagree with most of your sentiments and views as posted in this thread (and others likely) but I respect you for deciding to serve. God be with you and Lynus and I thank you both. Sincerely. It takes a lot of different people to make a world, and I think it's meant to be. I don't see things as black-and-white, and I don't quite agree with a lot of what glynch posted, but I agree a lot with him in spirit. We've talked about honesty. This may be very Jeffersonian, but it's the open, harsh, often emotional criticism that helps keep this country honest. And that honesty is critical in this country's being great. There's a whole chasm of disagreement in this thread, but I think that many of us, including glynch and treeman, agree on one thing: the U.S. cannot afford to isolate itself and its people be indifferent to what's going on in this increasingly globalizing world. We have to take an interest in what's going on in other parts of the globe in addition to what's going on here. We can't just sit back idly and expect things to fix themselves. Now, I know that's an extremely dangerous point on which to end a post, but I don't want to get too far into my views in what's supposed to be a unifying post.
