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Originally Posted by charlieo1126@gmail.com
but there was more to it then that , I grew up in very tough neighborhood and got into very bad trouble with rival gang kids it was bad enough that I left the country at 15 and joined the French Foreign Legion , my lack of height 5ft 6 drove much of my decisions in my life , the Legion was elite the legions paratroops were the best and the First Foreign Parachute Battalion was the best of all and after 6 years fighting both in Vietnam in 1954 and then Algeria it was a natural progression to American Army as a para serving with different units both American and Vietnamese paratroopers in Nam and later as a civilian in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and another 30 years in most of hot spots in world, paratroops are the elite of every army in the world and I have quick way to sum up life I spent my whole life helping to keep bad governments in power or to put bad rebels into power that way it never made me crazy like the people in power I worked for , FYI I don’t own any guns and don’t see a need either and I believe that people given s chance can change I’m an example
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Thank you for answering my question, charlieo. (I wanted to say that before this thread gets closed — although I hope it can continue. Like so many threads, this one is theater as characters — and character — are revealed.)
You come across in print as an interesting gentleman.
And thank you for coming to the defense of women.
You are obviously a secure male. As an aside, I sometimes tend to picture our anonymous posters through their words. (Such is the life of an English major.). Anyway, I always picture you as a man who owns his tux.
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Boomer