Re: As a person that eschews WAR but believes in self defence I found this a "Chuckle". Hope you enjoy it too. MAX

[John Eagle <jheagle@texas.net>]

Bill Lohman wrote:
> Great idea.  Works for me.  Where do I sign up?  I know just the 
> terrorist to take prisoner and place in Guantanamo Bay.  Bill
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> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:40 PM, <rbd1949@aol.com 
> <mailto:rbd1949@aol.com>> wrote:
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>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: m mm <maxspp@yahoo.com <mailto:maxspp@yahoo.com>>
>     To: me <maxspp@yahoo.com <mailto:maxspp@yahoo.com>>
>     Sent: Fri, Dec 18, 2009 11:08 am
>     Subject: As a person that eschews WAR but believes in self defence
>     I found this a "Chuckle". Hope you enjoy it too. MAX
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>     *Drafting Guys over 60 - this is funny and
>     obviously written by a Former Soldier.*
>     *  *
>     *New direction for any war:*
>     *_Send_** _Service_ _Vets_ _Over_ _the_ _Age_ _of_ _60_!*
>     *
>     I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down
>     terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military.
>     They've got the whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending
>     18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You
>     shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.
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>     For starters: Researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every
>     10 seconds.*
>     *Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us
>     more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the
>     enemy.
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>     Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky
>     soldier is a dang dangerous soldier. "My back hurts! I can't
>     sleep, I'm tired and hungry". We are impatient and maybe letting
>     us kill some asshole that desperately deserves it will make us
>     feel better and shut us up for a while.
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>     An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get*
>     *up before 10 a.m. Old guys always get up early to pee so what the
>     hell. Besides, like I said, 'I'm tired and can't sleep and since
>     I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical SOB...*
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>     *If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where
>     we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a
>     real brainteaser challenge.
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>     Boot camp would be easier for us old guys.  We're used to getting
>     screamed and yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also
>     developed an appreciation for guns. We've been using them for
>     years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the
>     screaming and yelling.*
>     *
>     They could lighten up on the obstacle course however. I've been in
>     combat and have never seen a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging
>     over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing
>     basic training.
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>     Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too. I've
>     never seen anyone outrun a bullet.
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>     An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still
>     learning to shave, or start up a conversation with a pretty girl.
>      He still hasn't figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to
>     shade his eyes, not the back of his head.
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>     These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a
>     little more about life before sending them off into harm's way...
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>     Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists.
>     The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple of million
>     pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons who know
>     that their best years are already behind them.
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>     *** Hey, how about recruiting Women over 50...with PMS?   You
>     think Men have attitudes !!!  Ohhhhhhh my God!!!  If nothing else,
>     put them on border patrol.... they will have it secured the first
>     night!*
>     *
>     Share this with your senior friends. It's purposely in big type so
>     they can read it*
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Bill, I'm glad to see you still have a sense of humor and there are 
others of us who have expensive trains and have opted to not run them on 
the existing layout until it's improved. Keep on keeping on, as you are 
a valuable asset to the club. Ira would do well to keep his thoughts to 
himself, as his last communication to the club should cause new members 
as well as old ones to question their membership. Best Wishes -John