Not that anyone particularly cares.....

So, I am trying how to figure out what is needed with this to simply take some of my previous comments to other sites and post them to this blog. Right now a simple copy and paste is not working for me, and I am baffled as to why. I need to play with this all further, so I am off now to fiddle with this a bit. "I'll be back....."

Ah...I think I figured it out!  So, anyway, here is a comment I posted this morning on one of my favorite incoming info links, Military.com.  Each morning my email contains updates from this site plus the New York Times and the Washington Post.  I enjoy reading the morning editorial comments and more often than not I will log up a comment of my own.  I selfishly save all my comments, I guess becasue I assume at somepoint someone may get a kick out of reading them.  When I was growing up--long time back--and in school I thought how is it possible that we have all these historical documents from our founding fathers unless somewhere along the line they paused and said to themselves: "Gee this is significant, I should save it'.  I think that took a certain level of ego, I guess I have the same ego level by saving all my editorial comment too; though I doubt anyone will read it in 100 years and think it anything but idle babble.....thus my site name.  :)

Anyway I digress.  I posted this comment below earlier today on Military.com   Threre has been some criticism from old vets about the movie "the Hurt Locker".  Below is my take on the film and the vet critics.  Make of it what you wish.  Hint: 0846 is my screen lable for this particular comment.  It was an MOS I had for a while long ago; it is the Marine designation for a scout/forward observer

0846
March 4, 2010 at 5:59 am

I saw the film twice, and enjoyed it for what it was; a movie about a fiction. It was pretty easy for me to spot breaks in reality, those area’s where ‘dramatic license’ overtook truth. But I was OK with that because, lets face it, this film was not made for vets to sit in a theater and mumble about our reality, rather it was made for civilians to gaze into a world that is totally beyond their capacity to grasp. I think the best contemporary film that reflects a reality is “Black Hawk Down”. That film plus, “Saving Private Ryan” and “Band of Brothers” are great films; I am looking forward to “Pacific” beginning in two weeks. I expect that too will be a pretty accurate film.