November 15, 2007
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I can sit in a college class all day and listen to 18 year old kids drone on about their "intimate knowlege of the war on terror" and shoot them down every time they say something-- but nobody wants to listen to a washed up vet. I just sit back and bite my tongue, hoping I won't have to get up and walk up to someone and punch them in the face. I got a bit out of hand the other day-- I was grading this girl's paper in English class (peer editing) and she was apparently some sort of expert in military strategy and geopolitics-- she had no idea what she was talking about at all, ridiculous statements on how evil we as the military are, brainwashed pawns, soldiers are dying for no apparent reason, how the military became a dishonorable profession, and so on and so forth.
You see these left-wing liberal spouts on blogs all the time, but in a school environment, it just pisses you off when you can put a face to a piece of writing. Of course with her war commentary, she made it a point that we have no reason whatsoever to be there, AT ALL. Now I agree that we may have entered the war for all the wrong reasons, but I had to remind her that there are some things that I have been through that motivated me to keep fighting. On the response sheet, I wrote down:
"The difference between you and me is that you saw some silly Michael Moore documentary, where as I actually saw the mass graves and guarded them with my life.
ON BEHALF OF ALL VETERANS, THOSE KILLED IN ACTION, AND THEIR FAMILIES,
FUCK YOU, BITCH.
--USMC
ps. Your spelling and punctuation sucks. I don't recommend you writing anything else for the rest of your life."
I would have gotten in trouble for that, fortunately it was a random peer editing thing and I didn't put my name down. Its funny to watch her face go into extreme shock after reading the response sheet, while I'm trying to hold back the fits of giggling like a schoolgirl. TEEHEEEHEE I'm bad!
Comments (15)
Awesomeness.
haaa... nice feedback!! man i wish i coulda seen her face when she read that...
that was awesome!
apparently most college kids are ultra-liberal. i guarantee that they'll shut up if you say something about being over there. whenever i mention something, no one ever tries to say anything to me. and everyone becomes really nice.
ha im always afraid of getting a bad grade in my history classes because i'm not super leftist. Good thing about going to a school like Berkeley though is that it's actually pretty accepting of alternative views and most of my professors aren't stupidly leftists. There are some who have to have cheap Bush jokes to keep the class moving, but for the most part the teachers here are great.
im pretty sure your hair cut and physique gave away who it really was that gave her that feedback..haha..might as well just gave her your phone number ..PUHUAHAHA
Interesting to have read this today. We discussed the war in Iraq (and all other wars) in my philosophy class today and some opinions were pretty out there. I generally try to keep quiet if I'm not at least 90% sure of what I'm talking about. (I'm usually quiet. I don't know if that means I have no clue what's going on 90% of the time or if I'm just quiet.) We had a war vet in my class too and he was discussing some of the things that happened and I'm just in awe that he (and people like yourself) could have gone through something like that and still go to class.
Amazing.
I also think the worse thing about this is the fact that the paper had horrible grammar.
Oh, how I tend to ramble on and on and on...
Good one...
Errrr
dude, your so funny. she deserved it.
Dude you rock.
You could have easily have "shot her down" without resorting to calling her a bitch.
Those tactics should be reserved for "18 year old kids" and not washed up war vets.
I love your comments to her!
Good job!
The whole lot you answer interferes with my own opinion, I ruminate therefore
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