Re: This is terrible

Towse <self@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Then he told them what he'd done. What's wrong with your logic, Sal?

The people who spoke at his memorial knew what he'd done, Ray.

Dad never talked about those days to his children, to his friends. He
didn't brag about his past to his workmates. He didn't go on and on and
on about the times he had, the things he'd seen, the dangers he'd faced
to his neighbors or the guys down at the Stop and Shop.

He =certainly= didn't puff up his own importance to chance met
acquaintances either on the street or on the 'net.

The person who spoke most movingly about episodes we'd never heard about
at his memorial service was his 81-year-old twin brother (now 82-), who
considered him a hero.

Dad was.

Ray's too fucking stupid to even consider the possibility that there
were others present during those times, that soldiers serve together
instead of singularly. A guy does what he has to do, then gets on
with what's left of his life, if he can -- there are a lot of street
people who served and clearly can't. Think for a minute about what
goes on during combat, what kind of person would consider that a swell
time and want to go on about it endlessly? Charles Manson, maybe.
Fictions don't scream, fictions never get sucking chest wounds, they
never spit blood or try to hold their intestines in with one hand, and
they accomplish it all by themselves.

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