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When the Lord was creating a Vietnam Veterans, he was
into His 6th day of overtime when an angel appeared
and said, You're certainly doing a lot of fiddling
around on this one.
And God said, Have you seen the specs on this order
A Vietnam Veteran has to be able to run 5 miles through the
bush with a full 40 pound pack on his back, enter
tunnels his higher ups wouldn't consider doing, and
keep his weapons clean and operable.
He has to be able to sit in his hole all night during
an attack, hold his buddies as they die, walk point in
unfamiliar territory known to be Viet Cong infested,
and somehow keep his senses alert for danger.
He has to be in top physical condition, existing on
c-rats, require very little rest, and he has to have 6 pairs of hands.
The angel shook his head slowly and said, 6 pair of
hands, No way The Lord replied, It's not the hands
that are causing me problems ... it's the 3 pair of
eyes a Vietnam Veteran has to have.
And that's on the standard model asked the angel.
The Lord nodded. One pair that sees through elephant
grass, another pair here in the side of his head to
watch out for his buddies, another pair here in front
that can look reassuringly at his bleeding, fellow
soldier and say, You'll make it when he knows he won't.
Lord, rest, and work on this tomorrow, said the
angel. I can't,said the Lord. I already have a
model that can carry a wounded soldier 1,000 yards
during a firefight, calm the fears of the latest FNG,
and feed a family of 4 on a grunt's paycheck.
The angel walked around the model and said, Can it
think, You bet,said the Lord. It can quote much
of the UCMJ, recite all his general orders, and engage
in a search and destroy mission in less time than it
takes for his fellow Americans back home to discuss
the morality of the Vietnam War, and still keep his sense of
humor.
This Vietnam Veteran also has a phenomenal personal control, it can deal with ambushes from hell, comfort a fallen
soldier's family, and then read in his hometown paper
how Vietnam Veterans are baby killers, psychos, addicts,
killers of innocent civilians and still continue the
next day.
The Lord gazed into the future and said, He will also
endure being vilified and spit on when he returns
home, rejected and crucified by the very ones he
fought for.
Finally, the angel slowly ran his finger across the
Veteran's cheek, and said, There's a leak ... I told you
that you were trying to put too much into this model.
That's not a leak,said the Lord. That's a tear.
What's the tear for asked the angel. It's for
bottled up emotions, for holding fallen soldiers as
they die, for commitment to that beautiful piece of cloth
called the American Flag, You're a
genius,said the angel, casting a gaze at the tear.
The Lord looked very somber, as if seeing down
eternity's distant shores ... and said, I did not put it there !
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