Alone on Christmas Eve.

[Dietrich K.]

Is anyone else?

 

[Missingmeds]

I am.

Hello Dietrich K.

 

[Dietrich K.]

Hey Missingmeds ... howzit goin'?

 

[Missingmeds]

Slowly and I will be glad when it is all over...

 

[Rantalith]

I am and it sucks.

 

[Missingmeds]

Hang in there men, it will all be over soon enough. I just can't wait until then.

 

[Rantalith]

Hang in there men, it will all be over soon enough. I just can't wait until then.

Me either. Christmas is becoming just another day to me.

Ba Humbug

 

[Missingmeds]

Do you have a reason that it is just another day? Are you like me and was all Christmased out back before Thanksgiving?

 

[Rantalith]

I have been alone for several years now.

I have been divorced for over 10 years and my kids want to spend time with their mother.

Oh well, it will be over soon.

 

[Missingmeds]

That it will, and life can return to something near normal. Thank goodness.

 

[Rantalith]

True, I guess this is what I get for being gone on the holidays so much when I was in the service.

 

[Missingmeds]

I don't think so. My family has been there and done that one. Doing it now as a matter of fact. One of the reasons that I am alone this evening.

 

[Rantalith]

I did it for 25 years. It does get better. I just wished that more people would understand what the military goes through just to maintain the peace and such.

What branch of the military? I was Air Force.

 

[Missingmeds]

A family of grunts, Army green clean to the core.

 

[Rantalith]

You have to have the ground pounders. They are the only ones that can take real estate. Fly boys like me, just bomb to the stone age.

 

[Missingmeds]

But bombing to the stone age can make things easier for the ground pounders.

 

[Rantalith]

Yes it does. Anything to help you ground pounders out.

Afterall we are one team.

 

[Missingmeds]

So they keep telling us....but there are times these days with the things that I hear, that truly make me wonder.

 

[Rantalith]

I agree and it is usually with the generals in the Pentagon that have forgot that we are all on the same side.

Glad I only did a 2 year tour in the Pentagon. Never so happy to leave a place in my life, well except maybe for Offutt AFB in Omaha, NE.

 

[Missingmeds]

Funny my brother said the same thing about the Pentagon. He didn't like it either.

 

[Rantalith]

The Pentagon is out of touch with the rest of the military. To much empire building going on there.

 

[Missingmeds]

I got the feeling from talking with him that you just hit the nail on the head. I personally never did time there so I wouldn't know other than just what I hear.

 

[Rantalith]

When I went to the Pentagon I thought that I was helping my career. But, looking back on it, I think I actually did more harm than good. I pissed off to many people while I was there.

It took me longer to make O-5 than it should have, but I made it in spite of them.

 

[Missingmeds]

Now you sound like most of the people that I know. I guess I like people that don't tend to do things "by the book" or to just blindly follow orders.

 

[Rantalith]

Just because I was in the Air Force does not mean that I did everything that they told me to do.

I probably would still be in if I could of kept my mouth shut for a little longer. But, that is another story for another place.