THE WAR'S OVER! (...for me, anyway.)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m back from the Big Boy Camporee in the desert, Good People of the Dope. I had an absolutely GREAT time over there, but all good things must come to an end. The tea-totalling, sexual abstinance, unbearable heat, dust, flies, unbendable military bureaucracy, and invincible Saudi arrogance, intolerance and ignorance, not to mention the violence-without-objective-or-policy, are things that I’ll always cherish in my memories-cum-nightmares.

I’m back to my old, familiar world, and you’re all a part of it. I wasn’t allowed to post to the boards while I was over there, but I could feel your love across the miles. Lucretia and I would talk twice a week (for a strictly-enforced fiften minutes each), and we had unlimited e-mail, so she told me the DeeCee Chapter was good enough to push back the Doperfest so I could attend. Thanks a ton for accomodating that; very sweet of y’all.

I’m now a Veteran of a Foreign War. Proud of my service, ashamed that it’s been going on for NINE YEARS, and we haven’t moved the ball at all. Killin’ Iraqis, risking our own guys, and no result. Well, fuck it…I did what I could, and no Merkins got kilt while I was there. So, I won MY war…

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Welcome home, Bluesman. We’re gald to have you in one piece, as well as the rest of your unit.

Sounds much like the Clinton administration.

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Welcome back and, thank you Bluesman.

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Welcome home Bluesman! Glad you made it back in one piece, and I’ll see you in a few weeks at the DC meeting!

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Welcome back, Bluesman! Looking forward to seeing you in a couple weeks.

Don’t feel bad that you guys didn’t move the ball any in hte past nine years; our boys in Korea have made no gains in five times that long, and nobody gives them a hard time about it. So you see, it’s all relative.

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Thanks to you for the welcome back. I really did have a great time out there, and I’ve never learned so much about my job. It’s the Airpower University Graduate Course, and I’m Phi Beta Kappa, if I do say so myself.

Lest I forget: Lucretia had a harder job than I did, back here with the house, kids, school, and no time of to lay around by the pool. They pinned the medal on me, but she’s the one that deserves the credit.