signature, adj.

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chickamauga

The 1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Div, AKA "The
Rock of Chickamauga," was rotated into West Berlin in reinforcement of
the Berlin Brigade, USAREUR (YOOsa-roar in GI jargon)), after The Wall
went up. Astoundingly, IMO, the unit was permitted to bring along with
it, by plane at taxpayer expense, its "mascot," a big-assed fxcking
*boulder* that must have weighed *tons*! It bore a plaque stating, for
the delectation of the interested passer-by, that it was, indeed, none
other than The Rock of Chickamauga.

Well, anything to bolster the morale of the troops, I guess. After
all, the balloon might well have gone up at any moment!

Youneverknow.

You know, now that I pause to give it thought, it's astonishing that
people are able to overlook the fact that the *combat* troops of the
U.S. Army are *children* (in basic training, cadre-members routinely
shouted, "God damn it! I'd rather see *whiskers* on a man's cheek, not
peach fuzz! (as a consequence of not shaving)), so young that
automobile-insurance companies insist that they pay a surcharge,
because their frontal cortices haven't developed sufficiently for them
to be possessed of the common sense necessary to drive a car safely.

During The War, *I* fervently hoped that it would last long enough
that I could see combat, preferably in some swinging,
South-Pacific-island jungle. Sadly, back then, wars lasted only a hot
minute and not dekkids. I was just born too soon. :-(

--
-Wilson
-----
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org