Goomba38 wrote:
> SD wrote:
>
>> Tell me Jill, how many actual years of military service did YOU
>> complete? I have 15 before a medical retirement. I was Vietnam Era, I
>> got to take care of some of those boys when they came back - the one
>> who survived thanks to guys like L not-L and MASH units.
>>
> I have to say Jill frequently reminds me of those children at the
> playground, or perhaps the wife of some new young butter bar who wants
> to remind everyone of daddy's/husband's rank ("full bird colonel")
> without ever thinking how silly that sounds? Especially since she's
> still doing it forty years later and never considering that others
> here actually themselves held as much or more rank over all the years
> of Jill crowing about "dad the full bull."
> Dear old dad's rank is not her accomplishment in any way. Yet it is
> ALWAYS brought up, as if it makes some difference in the scheme of
> things? Dreams of reflected glory, I suppose?
> Today when I read about her father being wounded, I laughed aloud and
> thought "Yeah, but fragged by your own troops doesn't count!" LOL

Fragged? Fragging involved the commanders not the privates and the lower
ranking folks. No one frags a private. No one even frags a Major. There's
no fun in that.

Get over it. I have. In fact, I can't wait until my father dies. Then I
get all his guns and medals and war memorobilia. Woo hoo!

And I still say creamed chipped beef (SOS) made by Stouffers is just fine.
Or you can make your own with dried chipped beef via Hormel

Jill