1st Cavalry? This is what one of my uncles did in Vietnam. He also has a room in his basement dedicated to vietnam, its pretty fucking awesome, his prized possession was a rifle he took out of Cambodia during the Cambodian Campaign. He is also so nonchalant about the whole war, it actually kind of scary. A point of note, 1st Cavalry took more loses than any other division during the Vietnam war, your pop is a pretty tough dude.
I shot the shit with somebody wearing a 1st Cavalry hat on vacation a couple weeks ago. He seemed like a pretty badass old guy.
I worked with a guy who was 101st Airborne. He wasn't awesome, but maybe he will be when he's older. He was a redhead who went from 101st in Desert Storm to law school to corporate lawyer, and was a bit of an overeager shitfuck. He certainly wasn't grizzled when I knew him, and was actually somebody who would stab you in the back with the partners. He, of course, survived the first recession when I did not. I worked with a former Army Ranger at the same time who was a few years older (early 30s) and already a grizzled into awesome. I'm not saying this out of any disrespect to your dad, of course. I'm assuming he's a lot cooler than the kid I knew.
Vietnam was a different experience. It's a lot easier to be a raw, raw go-team shitfuck when you never saw any fighting remotely like what they saw in Vietnam.
my FIL is also a huge Grateful Dead guy and apparently bought the webcast of all the final shows last week from Chicago but couldn't figure out how to get it to work so he went to the movie theater three nights in a row to watch them all there he also pays for SiriusXM in his car for only the Grateful Dead channel and to my knowledge has never changed the radio from channel 23
he used to be a big drinker and now abstains, according to himself has never done any drugs but this dude followed the Dead around for a while so I'm sure that's just a lie
Weird, I didn't quote anybody or tag anybody in the original. It was a copy and paste of the same Christmas Vacation quote posted earlier.
From Dad thread So update to this incident. The wife never cusses, ever. One of the many things that surprises me that she actually married me, is I cuss like a sailor. We see her dad like twice a year. So, the FIL is in town for the 4th. Really good dude, we get along great. Wife, FIL, me, and little man are all outside playing, he falls down, gets up, wipes his hands, says :"god damn it". Without hesitation FIL says: "your mother taught you that didn't she"
My dad I don't know what division he was in but he did a tour in vietnam, he sent a 45 home via mail piece by piece.
Lot of respect for the old war vets. I used to think Nam was the epitome of terrifying, war is hell type stuff with all the booby traps and sniping and all. Of course jumping out of trenches to charge machine guns and drowning in sink holes in WWI doesn't sound all that fun. Not to mention those thousands of years where war meant literally being hacked to death with dull weapons without modern medicine. Anyways point is ya gotta respect the grizzled old guys. My FIL spent time in the army but never actually fought as they ended up valuing his administrative skills and kept him in the office. He's no punk though and was apparently a beast of a wrestler and is still in better shape than me (smh) at 69 years old and wrestles with my kids all the time
That's what is so hilarious about the movies where the hero always comes out unscathed. Chances are his ass got killed by a random flying object or some random dude hit him from behind, not through a battle to the death against the other side's "hero."
That's pretty smart. All of the guns my uncle brought back have cement in the chamber. He says that's the only way he could get them back.
My grandfather brought one of these home on the boat after the surrender in Japan. Japanese arisaka 7.7mm. Unfortunately it got stolen from our house when they took all of our other guns. Damn thing is worth basically nothing to buy but to us it meant so much.
On the whole, aside from the lube stuff, my FIL is very much a workaholic and has tried to replace lack of seeing his kids often/grandkids often with just spoiling them financially when he does see them. It's usually pretty awkward because we only see him once or twice a year and he will be very overt in his efforts to go shop for things and pay for things while we're together. While my wife was growing up he was working 70+ hours a week because he doesn't know how to not do that. He was also cheating on his wife a ton. My wife didn't really know about it until she was 19-20... so she didn't really develop "daddy issues" like other chicks with distant fathers... Spoiler dang it
Saw a 93 yr old former WWII vet today mother fucker has two monitors for his computer and told me he spends most his time in chat rooms or watching youtube/netflix not so different are we old man
i know a great girl if you need a hookup she prefers small dicks and thinks olive garden is really nice
overall the FIL is a great guy who does whatever for his family. For instance, he gave all the kids (5) money for the downpayment on their first houses, and bought another house (650 miles away) for his wife so that she could watch our daughter instead of shipping her off to daycare. He worked very hard in the 70s and 80s to provide for the family, all the kids went to private school and the wife was a stay at home wife. He moved up the ranks and was making big time bank when he retired. He never took a sick day in 37 years. Now the problem is he has no hobbies whatsoever and has no clue on how basically anything around the house works. He tried to skim the pool once and ended up snapping the pole in 3 pieces and ending up in the pool fully clothed just because he didn't want to pay someone to do it. At this point the inlaws are loaded and could live their lifestyle just off the interest of their money every year but he won't spend a dime. He keeps the A/C at the house he's living in while he finishes his doctorate (62 years old, retired, and wants a doctorate?) at 80 degrees, cuts the cable off whenever he leaves for more than a week, and basically eats like a freshman in college. Now if I asked him for $10,000 today and gave him some made up reason, he'd give it me, but he won't live like a normal human that can easily pay the bills. He still maintains his side business that has flexible hours, but he'll cut a trip with the grandkids short to go to appointments people make, instead of saying "No, i'm not available until ...". He likes sports but doesn't know shit about them other than the players on any Boston team, how much they make, and if they will be resigned or not. He knows nothing about strategy and would holler at the TV if Tom Brady took a knee with 10 seconds left and a 2 point lead to run out the clock. He spends most of his free time in a 8 by 5 foot closet office either editing papers for school, reading boston sports articles, or re watching any Patriots replay on the NFL network. I'd like to play golf and have a beer with him but he does neither.
On vacation at the in laws favorite Myrtle Beach. Toilet paper in condo is like sandpaper. FIL says he is going out to buy something better. He happily tosses me a roll when he gets back. Single Ply...smdh
I would like to have a FIL one day. I hope to find a girl who is about 25, over the games and knows what she wants. To my knowledge I have never been cheated on, but I don't much trust women, and sometimes it is easier to not date, smash occasionally (fwb I meet on POF or some other internet site) and not have to worry about what she is doing.
I actually asked my FIL while he was in hospice. Was horribly sad but so glad I did it. He passed away three days later. My wife's godfather walked her down the aisle. Her godfather was/is awesome and treats her like a daughter. I alsways remember that when folks throw around the godparent title. It can be a great deal of work and should not be something taken lightly.