From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 21:38:14 MDT
At 06:46 PM 9/4/02 -0700, Cory Przybyla wrote after poor toenailless Mike
Lorrey told us about US military life:
>I'm a little confused. It seems as if most of your
>war wounds were inflicted by the same military whose
>service it was said people don't respect enough.
>Reading this completely out of context, I would expect
>it to be from something written by Ron Kovic...
ROFL! This is one gruesomely hilarious thread. The Splendor and Misery, as
Balzac said in a different context.
And Brian W Williams remarked with rather odd pride under the circumstances:
>While you are a member of the military you are NOT an American
>citizen, you are NOT subject to or protected by the U.S.
>Constitution.
>In no other " job or profession " is this true.
Oh, I don't know. Quite a few of us on this list (Hi Eugen! Hi Anders! Hi
Charlie! Hi Avatar! Hi all you others not in the Homeland!) are in the same
situation, and we didn't have to join anyone's army to get there.
Damien Broderick
[I served for many years during the Cold War, like many of you, as a
thermonuclear target]
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