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pinboy3niner

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46. "We could have all gone fishing"

Mon Jan 21, 2013, 05:54 AM

Jan 2013

I would have liked that.

I remember Redstone, too. You were lucky to know him IRL. I only knew him here. He was a good man.

I'm glad you made it, too. Through VN, and through the aftermath. You know what I mean. For some, it's still a struggle to survive every day.

One of these days, you and I have to go fishing. And share a toast to our lost comrades. I think they'd like that...

But you have to cut the 'undeserving' crap. We ARE deserving, and don't you forget it! That 'undeserving' BS feeling helped kill some of our friends, by their own hands.

After what we went through, what we endured, and all of the pain, we DO deserve to live good and decent life. Remember the epilogue of 'Platoon': "Those of us who DID make it have an obligation to build again...to teach to others what we know...and to try, with what's left of our lives, to find a goodness and a meaning to this life."

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