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Z-Neo

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  1. I kinda wanted to share this with some of you guys. This makes me even more proud of my dad. The local newspaper did a front page article last Sunday on him , and his hospice work with cancer patients and war veterans. A bit of preface before this article about my dad. He used to be a heavy smoker and drinker(beer mostly), and was mostly not real sociable. After being diagnosed with esophageal(sp) cancer, and beating it, he stopped smoking and drinking, and took up hospice work. He also mentors a few students at my old school, and is also a member of Bikers Against Child Abuse, along with my mother. It amazes me how much of a change overcoming cancer has brought to him, and I know he, and many of the people he now helps, are better off for it.

     

    http://www.claremoreprogress.com/archive/article20960

  2. One of my favorite Scotty moments in the movies was in IV or V (been too long) but Scotty says "I know this ship like the back of my hand" right before smacking right into a corridor girder. As slapstick as it was, the sequence still stays with me.

  3. Probably in most cases, the soldiers aren't seriously thinking much about the crap that's around them, until they are removed from the situation in some way. I honestly don't think it's possible to totally mentally prepare for war. Yeah, you can see videos of the destruction it brings, and hear the stories, but until you're face to face with it, it's doubtful one's mind can fully comprehend it. Even then, it may be pushed back into the inner depths of someone until later on down the road. Look at how many Vietnam vets and original Gulf War vetrans suffer from PTSD. In some cases it doesn't show up until years later.

     

    by the way, shouldn't it be morale, instead of morals?

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