Thursday, September 02, 2004
Purple Hearts
I skimmed the chapters posted on the blogsphere of Unfit for Command about Kerry's Viet Nam dishonorable medals, especially his first Purple Heart. Sorry, don't have the link handy. But the alleged sharpnel was minisicule, tiny, teensy, dare I say microscopic. The wound was covered by a small bandaid, emphasis added. In contrast to that, I ended up with a 3-inch-long sewing needle embedded in the calf of my leg while packing up care packages for the troops in Iraq and the Stan. I needed one of those big elbow patches to cover my wound and I needed surgery under general anestetia* remove it. Maybe I should run for President too. But I don't have the pre-requisite millionaire spouse or family. (That cuts across both parties.)
*I lose my cursor whenever I try to highlight something to use spell checker. Just another mystery to be solved at a later time.
Twilight zone update: Sgt. Hook is back at the keyboard but the AWOL posting is still not there where it belongs. Considering the sergeant's caveat about firing squads, I'm declaring to all hands that it was my intent to save information for posterity, not infringe on copywrites!
I haven't had many free Saturdays to go yardsale-ing so my collection of shoes for Operation Shoefly goes slowly. Most are from Goodwill which seems expensive when you're used to the yardsale cruising. But they did have new kids' socks for 50 cents, so that helped. Gotta go pack up some more boxes for the troops--a local supermarket has cans of "junk e-mail" on sale this week. (Think about what we call "junk e-mail".) Offending words are blacked out on the cans before shipment.
*I lose my cursor whenever I try to highlight something to use spell checker. Just another mystery to be solved at a later time.
Twilight zone update: Sgt. Hook is back at the keyboard but the AWOL posting is still not there where it belongs. Considering the sergeant's caveat about firing squads, I'm declaring to all hands that it was my intent to save information for posterity, not infringe on copywrites!
I haven't had many free Saturdays to go yardsale-ing so my collection of shoes for Operation Shoefly goes slowly. Most are from Goodwill which seems expensive when you're used to the yardsale cruising. But they did have new kids' socks for 50 cents, so that helped. Gotta go pack up some more boxes for the troops--a local supermarket has cans of "junk e-mail" on sale this week. (Think about what we call "junk e-mail".) Offending words are blacked out on the cans before shipment.
