Rejected and Hopless Veteran

lightemup
Thu, 03 May 2007 02:45:57 +0000

Yes, I noticed that I typed in “hopeless” wrong. I’m a very picky person when it comes to spelling myself, but a typos a typo. No one’s perfect, we all make spelling mistakes when typing too quick.

dhh-
I respect many WW2 vets. My grandfather was in the Italian Campaign and before that he was in an internment camp, labeled as an enemy of the state for being a damn Jap. You don’t need to compare me to the vets of the past though. Do you really believe that I think the world is fair? I have suffered from head trauma, hearing loss, and broken bones from 3 different IED attacks, I have 3 pieces of shrapnel in me side abdomen, and I lost 2 close friends in two separate incidents. I’m sure your granpda and many of the greatest generation have and had the same symptoms I did. It may not have been called PTSD back then because it was known as Combat Stress or Shell Shock. You may have had your sweet time planning your college life back home, but I couldn’t plan accordingly when I’m suddenly called out to go half way across the world to fight a war in the middle of my studies.

tisthetruth-
I never expected them to accept me in the first place. I was just hoping. And I was not trying to get in by showing off my military records, but as an explaination for why my grades were so low. I couldn’t take a few of my finals and I was denied a Military Withdrawal because I managed to get a few As because the finals for those classes were a few days before I left. That is what I hoped they’d understand and see. How dare you say I’m a hypocrite? I can’t have my own opinions about this war? It is possible to be proud of serving the country and have opinions against this war, you know. I’m not proud of what war I fought, but I’m proud that I did what this country asked me to do. If that is hypocrisy, then every god damn person out there who are against the war, yet “support the troops” should shut the hell up too, don’t you think?

Perhaps its partially my fault for not explaining that schools have screwed me over with these Fs. Yes, first they gave me an incomplete, but make it up within a year? I was gone for 14 months. I am not running around flashing my medals and asking that everything be relaxed for my benefits. I used it as an excuse because they are the reasons why I failed my classes.