That brings back a memory when I was a little more social.
I don't recall how the party conversation started but some nerdy little wimp said something about GI profanity.
I went off like a skyrocket and went off on one hell of a rant.
You complain when some flyboy paints a busty babe picture on the nose of his airplane or writes 'f***' on it because you say it's obscene. F*** that $hit. That's nowhere near obscene. What you have those people do is obscene. You take the nice, wholesome all-American kid that was your nice wholesome clean cut paperboy and turn him into a savage and teach him how to stick a bayonet in someone's guts or shoot him in the face. You order people to take machines out to flatten a city and kill, injure and displace the occupants. THAT'S obscene.
After it's over you expect to have him come home and still be the nice clean cut wholesome kid you shipped out. You're shocked when he's not.
Yet you sit here in your safe little home in suburbia and insult the very people that enable you to live here in relative safety.
If you want to clean up the language of the American GI than I seriously suggest you put on a uniform, pick up a rifle and stand a post and set a good example. Most likely after a few weeks YOU'LL turn into a trash tongue. If won't stand a post then shut the f*** up!
Crickets. Stopped that party cold.
With that I walked out. On the way out I said, "Enjoy your little party and your SUBURBAN SAFETY."
Later a number of people I ran into quietly told me I was spot on.
One of them later grinned at me and said "Temper, temper." She was one of the good guys.
Right on the money, Pic. When I served in 'nam I was always astounded by the various and creative ways the average Joe used the word f*#k and all of its derivatives. From what I learned from some Allies was that whichever Army one served the used of profanity was honed to a very fined degree. I fully agree with your sentiment. God bless all our wonderful troopers.
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