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• 2006-07-12
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• At the moment, military
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• Nana

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• School wise, on the dean's list
Anime Fan Since
• Middle school (I'm bad with years)
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• Aria, Clannad, Ghost Hound, Uta Kata, Card Captor Sakura, Cowboy Bebop, Lain, Ghost in the Shell, Strawberry Marshmellow, Nana, Gunslinger Girl, Elfen Lied
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• To finish college before I'm thirty
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• I want to say writing

myOtaku.com: Neko Nana Mode

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

history.......
Recently I wasasked by some new guy (can't remember his name, but just from how he acted I could tell he was just out of basic training)[even more of a side note, "new guy", I can't believe I am so used to being here that it has become such an everyday job like thing] Anyway, the guy asked me how this'll be recorded in history. At first I just wanted to laugh, but I remembered that he is quite the virgin when it comes to actual war experience. So heres the basics of what I told him.

History, in general, is a collection of truths, falsehoods, stories, and embelishments. The history we have learned since we were in school is just a basically bias point of view. As an example I used the hallocaust. Given the current views of general society, it is very tragic; but if you look at it from the Neo-nazi side, it becomes a great step in the right direction and a subsequent loss. Then I use the subjunctive path, what if no one from the camps survived, or all those involved never told their story, moving further along what if all records were lost?

This is all speculation, but it has grounding, is the above did happen, then, in basic terms, the hallocaust would never have happened. If no one remembers and no one tells, then as far as history is concerned, it never happened. So, fast-forward to the present. What we do out here, is not recorded, and will never be recorded officially. So, when all of us who are involved die, then these events are forever lost to time past.

So after explaining this to the boy, I told him this; "Of course history will be made, we just won't be in it." Though then again, the boy was just here on a transistion and has since moved out to the frront as a wheeler (88M). What I do, will do, and have done, will never be told to the public and at some point the records of which will be destroyed. I can ellude to it as much as I want, since it is very much in the fashion of the CIA/FBI movies of late. The records are "lost" but the out come is known. Hollywood and historians must fill in the blanks. Conspiracy is born from that. For those involved, it is just a part of natural life.

When this is all over and I am back in the states, I wonder how I'll act. I know many things that can never be spoken outside of "the circle" and have done things much the same. What scares me is how well I've adjusted to it. As I've said above, it has become just everyday live out here. I sleep in a trailer with four to five other people, or a tent with two others. I carry a weapon daily, fire it often enough. I also have a combat knife straped to my leg and a smaller knife somewhere else. All the hand to hand I've learned revolves around killing the opponent.

Sometimes I wonder why I tell anyone this. Maybe it's just what's left of my humanity (the definition of which can be a-whole-nother rant)

NNM
My Semprini hurts.
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