Thank you for your service. My uncle served with the 101st Airborne so I have a great deal of respect for that service branch. My brother was in the Army so I have no disrespect for any branch. My respect goes out to ALL who served no matter what branch and no matter what MOS they had.

My twin brother and I were both in USMC helicopter squadrons, him in HMM-262 and me in HMM-265. Both served as door gunners and have the combat aircrewman wings to prove it. He served one tour in Vietnam and received the Purple Heart. I served two tours in Vietnam. Of course both of us earned Air Medals.

Now what were you saying about being a cook? Interesting you capitalize the word, cook.

Take a good look at your demeaning post to me as if my service to this great country meant nothing. You look like a G D FOOL at this point. You resemble the bullshit lying insulting posts from little francine and the very little princess who continue to post demeaning lies about my LEO experience and then my experience in corrections.

The difference between my post and yours is astounding isn’t it? I post respect for your personal service and for other branches as well. You post a demeaning comment to me as if being a cook was a bad thing, a position not worthy of respect. How sad you are unaware when the rockets and mortars rained in at Marble Mountain, Dong Ha, Phu Bai and The Rockpile they never differentiated cooks from officers, door gunners or anyone else. Perhaps you are unaware every Marine no matter the MOS is first and foremost a Rifleman.

In the future may I suggest you be somewhat respectful toward those of other branches no matter their political ideology. Those that served deserve respect just as I gave you.

Dennis

Dennis, the flaw or shortcoming of this argument is that you don’t account for the circumstances around the death of the victims. Everyone will eventually die, and every such death is a loss for someone… even death by legal execution. Death from old age or serious illness also affects people, but mostly family. Then you have stories of unusual and unfortunate situations such as children suffering from rare diseases, and theses cases tug at the heartstrings of more people when the stories make the national news. And surely you can’t equate the civilian tragedies in 9/11 or in Gaza and Israel today with natural death at age 100+.

And that is why mass shootings by a crazed individual spraying bullets into a crowd with an automatic weapon are just a bit different than the death of a gangster at the hands of a rival gangster in a knife fight.

Dennis, the flaw or shortcoming of this argument is that you don’t account for the circumstances around the death of the victims. Everyone will eventually die, and every such death is a loss for someone… even death by legal execution. Death from old age or serious illness also affects people, but mostly family. Then you have stories of unusual and unfortunate situations such as children suffering from rare diseases, and theses cases tug at the heartstrings of more people when the stories make the national news. And surely you can’t equate the civilian tragedies in 9/11 or in Gaza and Israel today with natural death at age 100+.

And that is why mass shootings by a crazed individual spraying bullets into a crowd with an automatic weapon are just a bit different than the death of a gangster at the hands of a rival gangster in a knife fight.

WOW!!!!! John I can only comment positively on your uncanny ability to state the OBVIOUS. Golly Gee Whiz, you do catch on quickly don't you? I can only and with a smile on my face say, No Shit Sherlock.

Please show me where I have ever equated all deaths as equal as you seem to claim. I have personally investigated maybe 1000 deaths as a deputy coroner. Each one was completely different from others because the circumstances were different for each person. Some deaths were welcomed by the victim as well as the victim's family such as in severe illnesses. Some as in the death of children were tragic, heartbreaking on a scale of forever no matter the cause. I have investigated many suicides and even some of them I have completely understood the plight of the victim and why that person just could not, in their mind, spend another moment on this earth due to sickness, loneliness or just plain depression. I am not saying I approve of the person taking their own life but simply that I understand their reason.

Always a pleasure trying to educate you my friend. It is a tough row to hoe but you may understand someday.

Dennis