Grand Pooba. That's funny. Do you use that when you dress up and paint your face?
Now back to the discussion. Actually I respect all whom serve, but like any other profession, some put more color in their career than there actually was. Kinda like convicts in prison tell everyone they are in for murder or armed robbery, when they were actually a shop lifter. Don't feel bad though. Police officers do it too. Oh! And yes, I am very proud of my two son's whom served also, as did several others of my family since before the UNCIVIL War. My family was in the gray uniforms.
You ask how I served my country, well a little differently than others. Yes, I was a police officer for 20 years. There are many ways to serve one's country, and that is one of them. Firemen also serve their country, and although I respect all branches of military, it is not the exclusive and only way of serving one's country. Oh, by the way. I was not a fireman. That's just mine and millions of others opinion.
I'm like Cindy Sheehan you say? I don't quite think so.
You ask why I didn't serve in the military given my age, and I would suppose you would mean Vietnam. I was not drafted, and I did not join. Simple! Nothing as dramatic as you are. I only know what I hear from others, and read.
Cowardly draft dodger? Nope! Sorry. Not one of those either.
As to your service in whatever type of military you served. I salute you sir, but as unstable as you seem to be, when asked a few questions I doubt you were special forces or even close. You go off way to easily. But I respect your service just the same.
Oh, and one other point in answer to your opinion of me. In this world, as you say; I truly am "no one". But other than those close to us, we are all "no one". I am a "nobody" whom asks questions, and doesn't believe everything he hears or reads.
I guess this means your not going to tell me of your adventures and your training. I've already shared my boring uneventful existence. I would hardly view yours as qualifying yourself though.
Ok, your turn, I have ear plugs in, but I had rather hear about those skinnies you were talking about.