anyone leading a truly fulfilling life doesn't spend their days dwelling on the past, what they did, where they were, who they were with and what happened. they spend their days looking forward to the future and what is to come. forward, is where truly happy people are looking. always.
continually looking back is the behavior of someone who is truly unhappy with their life and where they feel they're going. someone who knows deep down that they have nothing left to offer the world, nor will they.
and i'm not a big fan of people throwing their military service around as if it's supposed to make them a better person or should be more respected than the single mother of 3 who works 18hrs a day to do the right thing... which this guy continually does.
i'm not one of those guys who grants automatic "hero status" to some idiot just because they found themselves without direction in life or with little hope for a bright future so they took the easy way out, opting the free food, free housing, free training, free education, free money for education and so on. you're not a hero until you do something heroic. until then, your just an employee doing your job.
a hero is someone who made sacrifices for the opportunity to fight and took that risk for the benefit of others and did so when it was unnecessary and where he had a lot to lose.
for me.. you don't get to be a hero, nor have you earned my respect by just being born some broke, shiftless, genetically disadvantaged fuck who had nothing to give up to begin with, so you went with someone made you run a few laps and gave you a knife and m-16 and sent you oversees, before you ended up in jail.
this guy claims to be an injured combat vet... judging from everything i've seen him write... its far more likely that he wounded himself and those around him, than the enemy wounding him.
