This just happened. In a local restaurant, two elderly gentlemen are sitting behind me. Another old guy comes up, greats them and thanks them for their service (they had vet hats). The new guy explains he was in Vietnam. "I thought I was in the mightiest army in the world. I carried an M16. Now I carry John 3:16.". Then they proceeded to talk about how great god is, and how he has seen them through multiple illnesses and life struggles.
Lynchburg, Virginia, ladies and gentlemen.
I suppose if you're a survivor of a traumatic thing like Vietnam, and you can't be honest about why you went through that.... finding comfort in make believe things could be comforting.......
barf
And the "prayer" to open the council meeting.....
I guess God was too busy to see those other poor souls through their short lives being killed in the wars and generally in life.
I was in the emergency room listening to two bible thumping veterans agree on how it was a good decision to bomb Hiroshima. Then they held hands and prayed for the person they were waiting for. Surreal....
@Jlangston70 it took all my self control not to say something. I had to walk outside.
It can be attributed to only one thing PTSD. SOme people simply can't cope with what they have experienced and look for a way to rectify what they were a part of. To some a god becomes an excuse.
I find it fascinating how bozos like this can pick each other out of a crowd. This vignette sounds like it has a happy ending, in that nobody who thought that type of conversation is pure horse manure was irritated by the conversation directly. Ok, you overheard it, but it gave you something to post about, no?
I grew up in Lynchburg. Jerry Sr. came into the Bonanza where I was a busboy (1980ish). The manager sent me into the back room to scrub potatoes until Jerry left, "so I wouldn't dump a pitcher of Coca Cola down his shirt."
...maybe without their allusion they would have nothing, in their own mind! A war was their greatest achievement! Maybe, it is hard for females to understand the warrior attitude! Because, it seems senseless to me!
Navy vet here, did my duty in 1987 and prevented a war from happening. What ever happened to deterrence?