WHY DIDN'T I...????

...say some nice shit about Memorial Day, me being a war vet and all? Because everybody who is dead from a war didn't want to be there and most corpses were either running from the police, some girl they knocked up, creditors they couldn't beat any other way, or because their high school grades were so shitty they couldn't get into college (me). None of us were there to save you all from Communism; nor were we brave to join. We were in because all of our friends were in, like in WWII. The guys I know who are in the ground were just in the wrong place at the wrong time wishing they were drunk in some whorehouse somewhere. In other words I don't see nothing about war to respect. We all have medals we didn't earn, didn't want, and were told to show up on some parade ground in some shit hole to have them pinned on us, or else. It's only when we get old that we pretend a patriotism we never had.

Maybe its because its all we have left to do.