At the pub with two fine veterans [View all]
Walked down pub with my future son in law I'm just charged up. one those days , off two days wife is traveling son is at home with mother in law. Son and friends walking to community pool at 10am , probably grill some burgers and dogs for the boys dinner. Sitting here my daughter fiancé is shooting pool with his friend. As former infantry troop my time was all peace 84 to 87 and I consider myself lucky. my son in law was 19D scout Iraq and Afghanistan he lost a leg fine person. His friend we are hanging with shooting straight pool regulation tables is in wheelchair paralyzed from Iraq, these boys I call em boys I knew them when they were boys there men but I remember them as young kids. They are not even thirty yet but have lived a lifetime. They started me thinking of the poem was it Kipling the British soldier on plains Afghanistan, they are two fine men that w bush or Cheney would not even be able to fill their canteens. I guess what I'm getting around trying say I hope our son or his generation never has to experience these crusades. Rule is these two fine Americans I'm with pay for no drinks ever with me even though they make fun of my heritage as airborne infantry I can handle them.
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