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<blockquote data-quote="dragoner" data-source="post: 8599342" data-attributes="member: 6943731"><p>Some of both. My father was a soldier, a hero by the medals he was awarding, so grievously wounded he looked worse than Frankenstein's monster when he took his shirt off. He was also someone you didn't want to mess with, as a 300 pound Tatar or Cossack looking guy, who often dealt with things violently, thinking nothing of taking someone by the throat, and slamming them against a wall. He would stay up all night, drinking liquor at the kitchen table, I definitely learned to walk softly, I think he knew I was there, just didn't bother to respond. This basically runs true, that anyone who has killed someone has issues, such as when I was a firefighter, and the cops that had killed people were different sort of person. Like I had a friend who was warrant enforcement in a very tough city, and you would see him raise a glass at a bar at six AM, and his gun and badge would peek out from under his jacket, but you had to be crazy to charge drug houses even armed with an SMG and in armor. Definitely its a burden, true heroism is someplace you never want to be, only a fool would think that is cool.</p><p></p><p>You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye</p><p>Who cheer when soldier lads march by,</p><p>Sneak home and pray you'll never know</p><p>The hell where youth and laughter go.</p><p><em>-Siegfried Sassoon</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dragoner, post: 8599342, member: 6943731"] Some of both. My father was a soldier, a hero by the medals he was awarding, so grievously wounded he looked worse than Frankenstein's monster when he took his shirt off. He was also someone you didn't want to mess with, as a 300 pound Tatar or Cossack looking guy, who often dealt with things violently, thinking nothing of taking someone by the throat, and slamming them against a wall. He would stay up all night, drinking liquor at the kitchen table, I definitely learned to walk softly, I think he knew I was there, just didn't bother to respond. This basically runs true, that anyone who has killed someone has issues, such as when I was a firefighter, and the cops that had killed people were different sort of person. Like I had a friend who was warrant enforcement in a very tough city, and you would see him raise a glass at a bar at six AM, and his gun and badge would peek out from under his jacket, but you had to be crazy to charge drug houses even armed with an SMG and in armor. Definitely its a burden, true heroism is someplace you never want to be, only a fool would think that is cool. You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go. [I]-Siegfried Sassoon[/I] [/QUOTE]
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