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  • I grew up in an extremely rural area. We had a dog that roamed a lot, just like so many dogs in the area (well, except for the weird people that would just tie up their dog outside their house for whatever reason).

    Anyway, local dogs would sometimes get together and try to chase deer. Apparently, one of our neighbors recognized our dog on one of these escapades. Someone he was with was about to shoot our dog for chasing deer and he stopped it. After that, we made a lot more efforts to keep him on our property.

    There was no animal control and people were especially precious about being able to hunt deer, so dogs that took to chasing deer down in groups tended to be at-risk.



  • Yes, I fully understand all the caveats and the frustrations with the Democratic Party. I think a great deal of Democrats are in the camp you describe, including me.

    I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about what seems to be a relatively small (but very vocal and quite smug) subset of the left that offer no truly viable options and then go on to lecture about how America and the DNC/Democratic Party deserves this kind of thing…if I didn’t have a few of these types in my life, I’d think the online ones were an orchestrated campaign to throw elections to the right.

    There are often several headlines per day that put the lie to how Republicans would be no different than the Democrats, and yet I’ve yet to see one of these types admit they were wrong or apologize for their claims. I mean, I get the fire in the belly - I was once a teenager, too. The sad part is that some of the people I know personally like this are way past the teen years.








  • Life is hard and it seems like people are constantly fighting and dying around you from the moment you’re born. It’s all you know. Everyone around you is sick, destitute, and miserable. There are no jobs. You have no education. You know nothing but struggle and see no future for yourself.

    The army is the only hand reaching out and offering to help pull you up, so you grab it.

    I grew up in a very rural area. This describes the situation there decades ago.

    I don’t have exact numbers, but I would say something like 10-15% of my class actually went on to higher education. Probably less, and definitely less than that finished.

    Very, very many went into some branch of the military. When the first war on Iraq started I figured that might be our generation’s Vietnam and that many of my graduating class would be fodder for it. Luckily for them, that ended up not being the case.

    In any case, songs like Born in the USA and Fortune Son really land pretty hard…