Random thought for the day

canamjhb said:

I'm old and have way too much time to reflect and think about stuff. Today, my random thought is about life. Thinking about my life being saved by someone and me saving the life of others. I had my life saved by a friend who prevented me from drownings when I was 14 years old. In my mid 20s I saved a friend from drowning. Later in life, I performed CPR on a customer who collapsed in the lobby of my office. So, the person who saved my life when I was 14 is responsible for saving the life of 2 others. And life goes on.....

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Gwolf said:

I prefer not to even consider anything like that, or wonder about it. I think of the time I spent in Vietnam, and other South-East Asian countries, as something that happened in a previous life. It is the things you can never forget and the only thing you can do about it, is learn how to live with it.

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canamjhb said:

I understand. I really do. Since I graduated from boot camp in 1966, I have been a United States Marine. I will never not be a Marine. Until my active-duty discharge in 1969 there were countless lives affected by me and my actions, most of which I'll never know about. I accept that. My focus on the random thought was on friends and people who had life changing events that were known to, and close to me. Now that I'm in the last stages of my life, I can only hope that I've had more positive influences than negative. And that's my random thought for today.....

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Gwolf said:

I did not want to get into all the people I med-evaced from forward positions to one of the big field hospitals. Also did not want to get into the fire bases we evacuated those we could from while they were being over-run. No way of even knowing the refugees we moved out of the way of bombings or major operations. For the most part, I did not know the people we picked up. Some were Americans, some civilians, some allied forces. Did not even want to speculate on the people I helped kill by bringing food, water, and ammo to where it was needed. You can't get into that kind of stuff after a war. It would drive you out of your mind. It was what it was and I did not start the wars or conflicts. I was aircrew on C-130-E.

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