robertjerl wrote:
Besides, if the two of you didn't get along, you might want to get un-adopted. He was a 6-year active duty Combat Engineer (1 in Iraq at the end of the major fighting) and now over 10 years Army Reserve Civil Affairs. When people ask me what that is, I tell them, "They are the polite Special Forces, they try to make friends and offer to build you a school or something before they start shooting." He is gone a lot, as he volunteers for any assignment to someplace in the world he has never seen. Right now he is somewhere near Ft Myers, Florida with a FEMA group. They are still rebuilding from a hurricane about a year ago.
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On the other hand, at the ripe old age 0f 66, I still work in a prison - I have my own attitude(s) so we just might get along famously.