[b]MILITARY POLL[/b]

OK Guys (Gals), Thanks for all of your replys.

I think we have a crossection after about 1200 views,
60 plus votes........
Approx 2 with No Military Experience
For every 1 with Military Experience..........at this time...

Wonder what all the 1100 did ? Ha.

I will let this thread now pass away - it's purpose met....
It was to give me some idea of who I was talking to here on ET.

My Experience was US MARINES......
Combat tours Vietnam... 65-66 .... 68

Damn right it affects my trading when a war breaks,,,,
These are "MY BOY'S".......Amen.
Forget Freakin' trading............

Thanks to all of you who honestly took the POLL....


1st MARINES.....RULE............Semper Fi
 
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the vietnam experience didn't change you?
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Absolutely! But since I wasn't a trader at that time I can't say it affects my trading. It may, I just can't say how. I know my wife is complaining the last few days that I am too "somber". Maybe that is a consequence. But yes, the experience profoundly changed me.
 
Welcome Felicka, I forgot to put in an option for "Other" Military....sorry.


Bronks.....hey, even 0311's are welcome here.......( grin ).
 
I looked and voted, though I wasn't actually <i>in</i> the service myself, my Dad was. The family kind of serves too. Dad was West Point, but went Air Force (no Air Academy yet). He served in Viet Nam when I and my brother were young.

I was the first male in my immediate family not to go into the service. But by being family, you know the people who are called to serve and a bit on how the military works.

Not sure that it affects my trading. But it does affect my views on the military and war/aggression/violence. I think you get a more complete picture of the world knowing people personally who keep the peace, from police to military. They are put at risk every day. I think many folks aren't really aware of why we enjoy the freedoms we have.

I hope no-one mistakes that for me being pro-war. I'm not. I guess I'm neutral on this war. I feel that freedom actually has as much to do with free markets as law and order.

André
 
it's the 80/20 rule at work again. The 80% enjoy the fruits of the sacrifice of the 20% (roughly speaking).

O, incidintally... a picture's worth a thousand words... even a thousand and three. <a href="http://john-betts.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://www.axisofweasels.com/blog/images/lovefromUSmilitary-thumb.jpg"></img></a>
<font size=1><i>America responds to the Axis of Weasels.</font></i>

I'd add Russia and China to that list.

With all deference, of course, to my French, German, Russian and China friends -- who love America and what we stand for. And pity for the rest.
 
Once a Marine, always a Marine. Big salute to all other Jarheads on this board and in the field.

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...Bronks.....hey, even 0311's are welcome here.......( grin ).
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Thanks, not too many places where we were welcomed. Especially at squid inhabited bars. :D
 
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