Shivering with an-tici-ppppation
May. 12th, 2003 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
percivalfirst of all, I hope all of you mothers on my friends list, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
angua9, shellebelle93, queenriley, ciircee, heidi8, anneu53714 and themorningstarr had a great Mother's Day. For themorningstarr, it came right after her graduation. Muchos kudos to you, girl!
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I can't believe it. We are leaving for the States the day after tomorrow. I signed off an e-mail chat withdr_c with "See you on Thursday." I will see my twin, piperx next week, on Friday. A week after meeting her, I will have dinner with the amazing Murasaki99.
Oh, and there's the beautiful landscape. Yes.
Finally, blessed be Mapquest. So patient, as I consulted it time after time, hammering out routes and longer/shorter alternatives. You see, my husband will do all the driving, so I don't want to overstretch him. But then, he was a driver during his time in the army ...
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Let me explain: in Germany, all men have to serve a compulsory year or so in the army.
They can refuse as conscientious objectors; their service is then completed somewhere in the
Social Services: Red Cross, old people's homes, etc.
There is a "get-out-of-jail free"-card: if you're a third son, or if your father did not return from WW II,
you are exempt. Thomas' younger brother was exempt - Thomas is the second of three boys.
Thomas was no conscientious objector. In fact,
he shows a boy's delight in everything that goes "Boom". So he served his time in the army
- working mostly as a driver, ferrying people to and from hospital. In case you were wondering what he thinks of Iraq: He hates that war.
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Anybody recognised the movie that my "subject" refers to? Answers in red lipstick on a black stocking, please.
(There, now I've given it away ...)
angua9, shellebelle93, queenriley, ciircee, heidi8, anneu53714 and themorningstarr had a great Mother's Day. For themorningstarr, it came right after her graduation. Muchos kudos to you, girl!*** *** ***
I can't believe it. We are leaving for the States the day after tomorrow. I signed off an e-mail chat with
dr_c with "See you on Thursday." I will see my twin, piperx next week, on Friday. A week after meeting her, I will have dinner with the amazing Murasaki99. Oh, and there's the beautiful landscape. Yes.
Finally, blessed be Mapquest. So patient, as I consulted it time after time, hammering out routes and longer/shorter alternatives. You see, my husband will do all the driving, so I don't want to overstretch him. But then, he was a driver during his time in the army ...
*** *** ***
Let me explain: in Germany, all men have to serve a compulsory year or so in the army.
They can refuse as conscientious objectors; their service is then completed somewhere in the
Social Services: Red Cross, old people's homes, etc.
There is a "get-out-of-jail free"-card: if you're a third son, or if your father did not return from WW II,
you are exempt. Thomas' younger brother was exempt - Thomas is the second of three boys.
Thomas was no conscientious objector. In fact,
he shows a boy's delight in everything that goes "Boom". So he served his time in the army
- working mostly as a driver, ferrying people to and from hospital. In case you were wondering what he thinks of Iraq: He hates that war.
*** *** ***
Anybody recognised the movie that my "subject" refers to? Answers in red lipstick on a black stocking, please.
(There, now I've given it away ...)
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Boom!
Date: 2003-05-12 09:03 am (UTC)physically and in ways spiritually and
mentally no doubt, although I respect
the work as honorable and right(given our
situation at this level of being)
it was not mine...but damn it
I love to see things go boom in action
movies etc...
not as severely as a friend of mine fr
David Kossey, a gentle and deeply insightful
man, trained in psyciahtry , who knows a lot about pain and also has
a great many interests from landscape art
to music to archtecture etc etc but who
goes every wednesday to a gun club and has
a leather jacket won shooting pistol, and
his vacations? shooting woodchucks for farmers,
up at dawn lining them up at 100 meters or more
in the mist...
well of course the psychology is not far to
seek I suppose for all this booming but in my
case may I add Freddy the Pig,/b> a series
read in childhood with Mr Boomschmidt and his
circus a recurring character and the the circus
parade with the song..
Boomschmidt! Boomschmidt!
Boom! Boom! Boom!.