<p>Before I take my leave, I need to clarify something.</p>
<p>I get my “nerve” from having been one of those who actually served our country during the cold war. One of those “thousands” that held the line against the Soviets.<br>
I lived the cold war. I didn’t just study about in history books. [When did you graduate? In 1991. After the Soviet Union had disintegrated.] While you were thinking about your first kiss, I was in Moscow. Working for our government. Serving my country. In the cold. The dark. Doing dangerous thing that you have only read about. With real, live bad guys that had guns.</p>
<p>So . . l. don’t lecture me about not having served our coutnry or protecting our freedoms. Who is more important to the mission? The guy who pushes the button that launches the missile or the guy who locates the target? The both are. Much of what I have done will remain classified. It is stuff you only dreamed about while sitting in front of your computer screen. </p>
<p>Was I in a “uniform.” No. But you all assume that only those who served in uniform deserve to raise the questions that have been raised. Well, there are plenety of people who have never put on a uniform [and many that do, e.g. police officers] that make up an integral part of making this countyr secure. So get off YOUR elitist high horse and quit making ignorant assumptions about non-military personnel.</p>
<p>Oh, Spidermom. Own the insult. It wasn’t “sombody” that called me an officous jerk. It was you, via private message. I could care less what you think of me [and I am sure vice versa] since we will never, ever meet. But I am sure not whining about it.</p>
<p>No whine, just cheese.
NOW go ahead and talk to each other about how great you each are and how the media, liberals, and everybody else who disagrees with you is misinformed or whining.</p>