I'd rather have truth

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....

Alot of guys didn't come back.Many were left traumatised and badly treated.War is Hell.

Monsanto invented agent orange, pass it on

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."

Yep. I believe ya.

Insert eye roll here.