...here's a sobering thought to make your Sunday....

I signed up on the Soldiers' Angels...I "adopted" an infantryman...I send a care package once a month if I can and a card or letter every week. One of the people who also did this got an email from her soldier..someone in his squadron (did I say this right?) went home on an emergency leave to see his newborn...he was murdered by his wife's ex boyfriend.

Someone else said they knew of a soldier that had been murdered right after he got back from eleven months in Iraq...

Fucking unbelievable.

It's bad enough we have dumbasses who put everyone around them in danger when they cook their drugs (Pekin's gotten a name for all the meth labs that it allegedly has in town), shoot and knife each other over drugs, bullshit tough-guy postering in gangs, kidnap and hurt and/or kill children (these are the ones that shouldn't have any rights at all), or one of the most idiotic things I've ever heard of...killing each other over stupid stuff like a tree stand. Didn't hear about that one? Apparently several hunters were out in the woods...some argument ensued over a tree stand...and in the end, they shot each other. No one was left alive. These are the ones that give the responsible hunters out there a bad name.

People are stupid. Not all people, but enough to keep me away from them...I like staying at home...and although I love to camp and hike, sometimes it gets a little scary out there.

Then we have these guys across the way who dodge bullets and fanatics and do their best to fight for what they believe in...looking forward to the day when they can be home...and in the end it's some asshole from his own country that kills him.

Guess that makes some of us as bad as they are...
posted by Wanting at 7:43 PM