phil777 wrote:
Ruveyn, maybe i might hit a nerve or two here but is the fact that you're a pro-american because you've been through so many wars? <.< (i read that you're 72 years old?..)
My ambition as a child was to be a bombardier like my uncle, but the war ended too soon. I think I was the only one who cried on V-E day. Chronic asthma disqualified me for combat so I got into weapons making and designing weapons (tactical and theater). So when I grew up I helped design the algorithms for storing and retrieving radar data for cruise missiles. This is how cruise missiles were guided before GPS and is still the backup system. My "babies" helped to kill a lot of enemies and I have (indirectly) several scalps on my belt and I am proud of each and every one of them. Before I got into missile guidance I worked on H-bombs and tactical nukes. We never got to use any of them (shucks!). I figured if I could not be be a warrior who shed enemy blood, I would be a weapon-smith who gives the warriors the means to shed enemy blood. Not quite as satisfying, but just as effective.
In my next life I want to be either Conan the Barbarian or Mr. Spock.
ruveyn