[cross-posted to Live Journal]
It's a good day to talk about this: I was nervous about discussing things military when I first met The Mux. He was, after all, a Vietnam vet. I had protested the Vietnam war. [Although I'm not much of a pacifist. My friends at the Individuals Against the Crime of Silence called me their token hawk. I just felt that we were being lied to about why we were there. And come on, people, I was 21. I still knew everything!]
But I digress. The point was that Mux said that he was as proud of me for acting on my beliefs as I was of him for acting on his. I told him, "I'd like to think that if I were operating on the information that you had, I would have done the same thing and stepped up to serve." And he said, "I'd like to think that if I were operating on the information you had, I would have been out with the protesters."
Until I met Michael, I didn't really understand that Richard Lovelace line, "I could not love thee half so well / lov'd I not Honour more."
Thanks to all of those who put themselves between us and peril.
Thanks especially to Mux.
You're my hero.
It's a good day to talk about this: I was nervous about discussing things military when I first met The Mux. He was, after all, a Vietnam vet. I had protested the Vietnam war. [Although I'm not much of a pacifist. My friends at the Individuals Against the Crime of Silence called me their token hawk. I just felt that we were being lied to about why we were there. And come on, people, I was 21. I still knew everything!]
But I digress. The point was that Mux said that he was as proud of me for acting on my beliefs as I was of him for acting on his. I told him, "I'd like to think that if I were operating on the information that you had, I would have done the same thing and stepped up to serve." And he said, "I'd like to think that if I were operating on the information you had, I would have been out with the protesters."
Until I met Michael, I didn't really understand that Richard Lovelace line, "I could not love thee half so well / lov'd I not Honour more."
Thanks to all of those who put themselves between us and peril.
Thanks especially to Mux.
You're my hero.
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