Originally Posted by planecrazyjenn (Post 183055)

No I was rushed into the hospital last week for massive internal bleeding due to other medical problems and developed a complication that so far is keeping me from using my right hand. I have a follow up monday and a referrel to a neurologist. The dolphin in my avatar has nothing to do with this but they are fun to work with.

Originally Posted by planecrazyjenn (Post 183063)

Thanks...sure it will. Things could always be worse right?

Originally Posted by Planespotta (Post 183069)

That's a good way to think about it.

Then again, quoting the great Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes), "things could always be a lot better, too."
:p

Originally Posted by Planespotta (Post 182961)

Still, I won't give up on the point that bobloblaw's flight instructor's death is of no lower status than that of the F-16 pilot. They both died doing what they loved, and that is very honorable.

Originally Posted by Planespotta (Post 182907)

Actually, I don't feel you have the right to speak to me that way, regardless of my age. I'm not as immature as many people my age. I'm not an Xbox fan. Frankly, I don't see how being shot at and getting back alive has anything to do with the price of tea in China.

I make the high honor roll at school, so don't give me this sh** about summer school.

And, finally, what do you mean it's not my place to wake these people up? I'm just saying that I believe in the dignity of every human being, and if they don't think the same thing, then I don't know how they could stand serving their nation if they didn't feel who they were fighting for at home was worth defending.

Maybe they joined so that they could get into the airlines in the aftermath. Maybe not. The point is, stop acting like I should let ignorance go unnoticed just because I'm 17 years old. I have much more experience in life than many other people my age, and I frankly don't care if you think my opinion doesn't count. After all, an opinion is an opinion is an opinion. Nothing makes one's opinion count more than another's.

Originally Posted by reCALcitrant (Post 184047)

Hey little fella. Doing what you love is not honorable. Doing something honorable is honorable. Didn't say his friend dying was nothing. Just said we were discussing a man who died whose job was to protect those very rights you and I so freely use. Flying is not honorable. Someone getting shot down for you and I is brave, dutiful, patiriotic, and honorable. Let it rest and so will I.

Originally Posted by bobloblaw (Post 185015)

Anyone who gets up and goes to work everyday is honorable. Anyone who pulls their own weight and is not a burden to society is honorable.