I have read Squids and Hylanders posts and the links that thye have posted, they are both informative yet do not relly cut to the point that I am trying to make here. So Now let me be CRYSTAL CLEAR in my sentiments.


I was born in 1966
I am a child of not the baby-boom era
Yet I am not one of Vietnam

But you know what
All I wanted to do when I was a kid
Was to ride submarines
I wanted "In" into the submarine service
To me this was the of the greatest heralded honors
that a man could want

I wanted this at 8 years of age

Ok so

Circa 1980

The world then knew it's place

Reagen
Helmut Kohl
The Iron Lady
Mitterand
Bhotto (Benizenir)
Terdeau (of Canada)

It seemed that the world knew it's place.

Ok

Now Circa 1990
Collapse of the soviet union
Collapse of the U.S Submarine force
Because the no longer "Soviet Threat"
That I lived under is no longer of IMPORTANCE

So now what?

For all that we fought for
Well that I was in included in the fight for
Should now be given up

Has tirrany been so "taylored for"
Where can no longer see right from wrong

All right it comes to this
I had a choice to join the militatry
and I am glad that I did
It made me the man that I am today
Yes it was a decision

Yet is not that what I (and many others)
Fought for?
So that our kids could have a chioce
and now that they do
The polilticians say

"THEY HAVE NO UNDESRTANDING OF THEIR FREEDOMS"

I thought that is what I was fighting for
when I was beeing chased by
Alfa's in the black sea


How did such things get so
convoluted so quickly
because we can not
see from all ends

Yeah, I guess it comes back to
WWI
Wars to end all wars.

Bullsh**
We are powerless to get over oursleves.