Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   I should have stayed home Date:   2/21/2011 2:25:09 PM

Would you care if they took away your retirement?  Of course you would.  If “they” took away my retirement… yes, it would hurt… very much so.  Am I worried about future retirees?  Yes, look at what has happened to Champus… now, TriCare.  Every promise held out to me in 1968 has been broken.

I don’t see why you feel compelled to be condescending to me (e.g. “How noble of you.”)  I cannot fathom how you read such things into what people write on this forum.  Maybe I haven’t earned your respect.  Maybe you perceive tradition and honor as silly or suspect.  But, I surely don’t deserve your contempt!

You see, this is exactly why I should have stayed out of this thread.  It is NOT a soldier’s lot to set his own pay.  And, I knew that one of you would slam me from some unforeseen direction.

I was right.  And Hound, I will have nothing more to say in this thread!