I was cruising thru this thread getting ready to post. As it turns out Steve expressed my views very well. I am a recent retired Infantry GySgt (13.4 years, retired medically due to multiple gunshot wounds received in Fallujah Nov '04), and I started my service in the Army. I only state that to establish some street cred. Leave the rank off. Invest in a custom EGA belt buckle or custom Kilt pin. I can tell you in my many trips to the VA hospital it pains me to see so many lost souls, men who have no identity outside of the branch of service they left so many years ago. Nothing wrong with pride of service; but it is a dead man that does not grow. And I hope for every soul on this planet that we can continue to grow emotionally and intellectually till the day we are put to rest. To that notion, if we choose to, we are advancing in rank everyday. If you have not read MajGen Smedley Butler's book, its a must read. War is a racket.
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream." - Malcolm Muggeridge
"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change." - Confucius
"The State is a disease that masquerades as its own cure." - Jim Davies
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