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Tonchi · 04-11-2005, 04:18 PM

OC has a great idea, but check with the authorities that be about what you can send. We are reading that more than 90% of the corporate Care Packages (like from retail stores, industries sponsoring drives, etc) are never being distributed but are being left to rot unopened. The locals are allowed to pillage the shipments for whatever they can salvage, but the government is refusing to distribute them. I'm not talking about your private package of cookies and socks, but the bulk shipments of chapstick, mineral water, and expired shelf items. CostCo here sent toilet paper and other things from approved lists.

I was born at Ft. Bragg, NC, and both my parents were commissioned officers as were my uncles, but it seems to me that I'm the only one in my family who cares at all about the personal cost to those kids on the line out there. It sometimes seems that "soldier" is just a political term used to represent how big and tough we are when it comes for "standing up for our values" and nobody sees a bunch of neighborhood kids who would have led normal and hopefully productive lives if our government did not have its priorities fucked up. I don't think ribbons on your car do the job, that's only so you can have a feel-good moment when somebody just like you drives by. Our guys need more than that. They need to come home. If any of you have ever seen the "Five Stages of a Failed Project", the final step goes like this: "Praise and rewards for the non-participants". We do not need another sub-culture of bitter, disabled and disallusioned veterans, America still hasn't settled with the last one we created.

Sorry for the rant, but I have never gotten the idea out of my head that if we had not slaughtered a generation of our youth in Vietnam we would not be stuck with the hypocritical lying sacks of shit who are making our decisions now. They all weasled out of military service, they make no apologies for it either, and therefore haven't the slightest idea of the human cost beyond numbers. Now we are allowing it to happen again, and that's just plain insane.

04-11-2005, 04:18 PM	#9
Tonchi Victim of gravity Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Hiding in plain sight Posts: 1,412	OC has a great idea, but check with the authorities that be about what you can send. We are reading that more than 90% of the corporate Care Packages (like from retail stores, industries sponsoring drives, etc) are never being distributed but are being left to rot unopened. The locals are allowed to pillage the shipments for whatever they can salvage, but the government is refusing to distribute them. I'm not talking about your private package of cookies and socks, but the bulk shipments of chapstick, mineral water, and expired shelf items. CostCo here sent toilet paper and other things from approved lists. I was born at Ft. Bragg, NC, and both my parents were commissioned officers as were my uncles, but it seems to me that I'm the only one in my family who cares at all about the personal cost to those kids on the line out there. It sometimes seems that "soldier" is just a political term used to represent how big and tough we are when it comes for "standing up for our values" and nobody sees a bunch of neighborhood kids who would have led normal and hopefully productive lives if our government did not have its priorities fucked up. I don't think ribbons on your car do the job, that's only so you can have a feel-good moment when somebody just like you drives by. Our guys need more than that. They need to come home. If any of you have ever seen the "Five Stages of a Failed Project", the final step goes like this: "Praise and rewards for the non-participants". We do not need another sub-culture of bitter, disabled and disallusioned veterans, America still hasn't settled with the last one we created. Sorry for the rant, but I have never gotten the idea out of my head that if we had not slaughtered a generation of our youth in Vietnam we would not be stuck with the hypocritical lying sacks of shit who are making our decisions now. They all weasled out of military service, they make no apologies for it either, and therefore haven't the slightest idea of the human cost beyond numbers. Now we are allowing it to happen again, and that's just plain insane. __________________ Everything you've ever heard about Fresno is true.