Nerves of butter
So I was communicating with some friends of mine over the weekend and this morning. We're having our 10 year reunion for the West Point class of 1996 this October. I got the hotel room all booked and stuff but I am learning that many classmates will not be there. I guess some just don't want to go and many are deployed around the world fighting towelheads. Anyway the issue here is I didn't go to our 5 year reunion because every time I get anywhere near the academy I get nervous like I did when I was a plebe getting hazed and had to go back there after Christmas leave. I have been back there once since I graduated and I was scared shitless. Anyway, I figured that by now I'd be over my issues since I am a civilian but I am not...just thinking about going back there for my reunion is making me nervous but I am gonna do it. I just wish more people from my class were gonna be there. Anyway, the core of our group will be there and I am sure we'll drink enough beers for the rest of the boys that couldn't make it. However, me and a few friends usually do a semi-annual get-together in NC at a lakehouse where we drink, jet ski (sober), boat (sober) and fish. Well this year I don't think we're doing it because we had it planned for Labor Day and some stuff came up and one or two of the guys cannot make it. So I am kinda bummed out about that.
Anyway, when I talk to my friends they all tell me the same thing...they get nervous when they go back to the academy. I don't know what it is because most of us have been through some pretty wacky and wild stuff. Just something about that place that we feel like someone is going to start yelling at us or that we still belong to it or something. Odd....any of you ever have a feeling like that about anything? I kind of feel bad about it since I owe a lot to West Point. Plus the reunion promises to have its moments of humility as we will be rightfully honoring 38 academy graduates and one of my classmates and friends, who have lost their lives in the war on terror--along with honoring all of the other men and women who've lost their lives. I dunno....it's a touchy issue with me...just thought I would share it.
By the way I tried to post a photo of my friend and a true hero, Josh Byers who was killed in action on 25 July 2003 but as luck would have it, this shitty blog site always gives me problems posting photos lately. I will try again later or tomorrow.
Here's a link to the West Point Association of Graduates website with eulogies and comments posted on these fine people. If you choose to look please be respectful.
http://www.aogusma.org/as/admin/remembrance.htm#byers
posted by P-Nut @ 2:07 PM
2 Comments:
Wow..... that really brought things home. I don't like war Vinny, in fact, I try to act like it isn't there. It makes me sad for the people who die and their families. I know that may not be very patriotic but it all just makes me so sad, and actually putting faces on those solders was tough. Don't get me wrong. I have so much respect for the people in the military and I appreciate greatly what those people do for me. It just makes me so sad that I live in a world of such violence. Worse yet, violence in the name of religion.
I know what you mean....I read some of the eulogies for these guys and gals and see the wife or husband they left behind....some leaving behind their newborns that never got to know them and it chokes me up. I thank God every single day that I get to go home at the end of the day and pick up my little girl and hug and kiss her until she's sick of me....then I do it some more.
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