by John Galt » Fri Jan 16, 2015 11:44 am
he was in charge of firing command on a battleship in the gulf war. he showed me videos of some of the hits, while i was on ship with him (last voyage of a vessel they allow family members on, we went from honolulu to long beach. i got to fire machine guns, grenade launchers, they shot their 16in guns off and shit. take your kid to work day was a lot of fun. i was like 10). i clearly remember the camel doing flips in the air and off the screen even though this was some time ago
Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience. -- Theodore Roosevelt
My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough.