Gerald,

I actually inquired of the military quite a few times. My first marriage was to a military man. Unfortunately the miltiary would not take me. I have migraines and since they are neurological, and considered to be a form of "seizure", and controlled with seizure meds, they would not accept me.  I could not lie and say I didn't have them, and go without the meds, as I would have them too often to get by with it without the meds, they would end up "tossing me" for that. It's a shame, because they're not that debilitating of a thing if they're controlled (and not particulary debilitating when not controlled, just painful). It takes very low dosages of meds. It only takes a few seconds to eat a pill. I can do that anytime anywhere.

I know I could do the jobs, and be quite "lethal" :) I shoot very well, and not afraid of anything or anyone. I'd go to war in a heartbeat, I love this country!

And I think I'm too old now too, lol. But don't tell anyone!

Respectfully,
Jenn

I remember when I was in the army.  We had the toughest drill sergeant in the world.  He'd get right up in our face and yell, and if you didn't have the right answers, mister, you'd be cleaning his house or washing his dirty underwear.  Sometimes, he made me clean his latrine.  If I didn't do a good job, or do it fast enough to suit him, he'd yell at me, stick my head in the toilet, and flush it repeatedly until I was gasping for air.  It was probably the toughest three years of my life.  Hey, wait a minute.  I wasn't in the army, and who was that guy? I guess in the end things tend to even out. Religion, some people say, has caused wars and fighting.  Yes, but it's also boring to sit through a church service, so it evens out.  One moment you're depressed because your doctor tells you that you have alcoholism.  But then you cheer up when you go home and find a hidden bottle of vodka you had forgotten about.  Things even out all the time, if you take time to notice, like I do.  Let's say you want a big cupcake with lots of icing, so you go buy one and eat it.  But then you realize, I don't have the cupcake anymore.  Or maybe you take a bite of salsa that's labeled "Hot," and it doesn't seem that hot, but then about a split second later it seems really hot.  You might hear that some guy you know is having a party, so you call him up, but he says there's no party. But then you call back, using a different voice, and suddenly there is a party.  One day you ask people to take a look at an oozing skin rash you have. Then a few days later you're looking at their oozing rashes. You send someone a death threat and then, mysteriously, the police come to your house and threaten you.  Maybe you find a nice flat rock on a riverbank, and when you pick it up and throw it, it skips across the water several times. But then the next flat rock you can't even pry loose because, what is this stuff, glue mud? You notice an ant drifting away on a leaf in the water.  Then you look up to see your aunt, drifting away in a rowboat.  Eventually, I believe, everything evens out.  Long ago an asteroid hit our planet and killed all our dinosaurs.  But in the future, maybe we'll go to another planet and kill all their dinosaurs.  Even in the afterlife things probably even out, although I can't imagine how.  Regardless, I still believe in God and the three commandments, but I'm having trouble trying to figure how much stuff I can get away with and still go to heaven.  Anyway, if you still don't believe things even out, try this simple test.  No matter where you are, constantly flip a coin, over and over again, loudly calling out heads or tails after each flip.  Half the time, people will ask you to stop.  Once you realize that things even out, it's like a light being turned on in your head, then turning off, then being turned back on, to dim.  Probably the most perfect example of things evening out happened to me just last month.  I was walking to the post office to mail a death threat.  It was a beautiful day.  I was happily singing away in my super loud singing voice.  I didn't step on any chewing gum like I usually do, and when I threw my gum down, it didn't stick to my fingertips.  As I rounded the corner, there was a bum begging for change.  I was feeling pretty good, so I gave him a five dollar bill.  At first I tried to make him do a little dance and entertain me for the five dollars, but he got mad and wouldn't do it, so I gave him the five dollars anyway.  Not long after that I was reading the paper, and there was a picture of the bum.  He had won the Nobel Prize in chemistry.  He had a little bigger nose and straighter teeth, but I'm pretty sure it was him.  So, my five dollars had made him change his ways and become a chemistry guy.  A few days later I was walking by the corner again, and there was the bum, back begging.  So, things had evened out.  He had gotten the Nobel Prize, but now he was a bum again. I asked him for my five dollars back, but he started swinging at me and yelling a bunch of weird stuff that I assume was some chemistry formulas or something.