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hunter

(38,311 posts)
27. I'd argue the same about military technology, maybe all but trauma care.
Sun May 21, 2017, 04:58 PM
May 2017

Too many military trauma and PTSD veterans to study.



A long, long time ago I developed some software that shockingly (to me anyways) turned out to have some military application. Raised as a pacifist, I fled. Maybe a rational person would have stayed for the money, but I was not that person. My partner-in-crime later bought a house in La Jolla with the tainted proceeds. Maybe I'm just some sort of idiot.

One of my grandfathers was an Army Air Force officer in World War II. I gather he did what he had to do to get the job done, dirty deeds done dirt cheap, with Italian and Russian connections. But he never talked about that. His greatest pride was the work he did as an engineer to land men on the moon. I've got his metal-has-been-in-space medallions. There are other bits of metal he conceived, touched, on the moon and in the Smithsonian.

My other grandfather was a Conscientious Objector in World War II, refusing to put himself in any position he might have to directly kill anyone. So they gave him a choice of imprisonment or building and repairing Liberty and Victory ships. He was a welder, he built and repaired the ships.



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I'd argue the same about military technology, maybe all but trauma care. hunter May 2017 #27
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