REH wrote: > You may think you know what I meant but what you believe is not what I was > saying. Working for $7,000 a year in Washington, D.C. with a $130 a month > housing allotment was not anywhere near what the expenses of living in the > area required for a married man. That's all. There was no base housing > and I worked at teaching and conducting and my wife worked in the public > schools and we just got by. That was what I meant. I assumed you > understood that no one is in the army without a base pay. But I was wrong. > Glad to clear that up.
See, that's why I like frank language -- it avoids misunderstandings and saves a lot of time. But if you earned $7,000 a year, I don't understand why you first suggested (on 31-July) that you worked for the army to support your family. > As for working for the enemy. Well I would rather > not have the Russians over here running the reservations or the Germans or > Italians. The English are bad enough and the Spaniards? You can forget > that. Why do you take the reservations for granted at all? If the Swiss government would run the USA, there would be no reservations. > Also my stint in the military music included great peace music and > the development of beauty for Americans that had little in their lives. Alas, looking at their behavior invading countries, they didn't listen! > I appreciated the Army musical establishment and still do. They are brave > and always have been. Carrying musical instruments on to fields of battle > unprotected. Music increases "productivity", after all -- I guess your bomber pilots listened to music by earphones while saturating Vietnam's breadbasket with Agent Orange, eh? With songs like Satchmo's "what a wonderful world"... > They also project a world that is beautiful in aural forms > that political theories are ignorant of. It's walking into the belly of > the beast and planting a garden. At some point, extreme hypocrisy gets laughable although it is so sad. > It's also better to have the oppressor you know Didn't you assert to know "the Swiss"? But indeed you don't, you hold racist prejudices. > than the one that doesn't do > any better than anyone in Europe with their ethnic populations. Hello? Obviously, you have never been to Switzerland. In case you missed it, we have 4 different language groups since centuries living together in peace and without reservations or concentration camps, while the surrounding countries were fighting each other in one war after another and putting Jews and Gypsies into concentration camps. Yes, you can rant and rave that we gave some Gypsy children an education and stable family (what a crime!), but we stopped that evil practice in 1972, whereas Canada continues it in this century. So if you want to complain, do it there. > I could have done a lot better as an > opera singer and teacher in Europe than here. The Army was about as close > to that Europe as I could go. See, I thought that "serving my country" was an excuse. You sought socialism. > I've always lived and worked in the belly of the beast. So did the "Judenrat". Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
