My mom died. I am home for her funeral, then fly back out to Iraq.

Your Linguistic Profile:

65% General American English
20% Yankee
5% Dixie
5% Midwestern
5% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

“This too shall pass.” Was the last thing my mother had to say to me after a brief chat about what I have been doing lately. I had to tell her the truth. About how no matter how hard I try not to make mistakes, errors are all that I seem capable of. Knowing that about myself is something I am not enjoying admitting to ( Read more... )

Honor, Courage, Commitment. Just words right? To be honest the true meaning of those three ideals still elude me. If I had to attempted to interpret them now I would say that you can not have the knowledge of any one of the Marine Corps Core Values with out the knowledge of the other two. To truly understand honorable actions, you must first ( Read more... )

Hawaii, where I'll be staying for the next 2 or so years. I'll be deployed to an artillery unit and re-learn my mos. I am a little uneasy about it too. I feel as if I don't know my job well enough. I just hope I will have a learning curve of some kind. I got about a week left of leave. My thumb, once nearly amputated, has healed rather nicely. A ( Read more... )

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Yesterday was my first Poolee meeting. I was told that it would be water warfare preparedness; as it turned out, a rather large thunderstorm rocked the reagen of Lansing Michigan where the Lansing Community College pool in witch we would train was. For what ever reason the College didn't want us in an indoor pool because it is raining . . . maybe ( Read more... )

For the last few days I have been . . . feeling differently, a mind of low level depression I guess, looking back on it I think we all have felt a little down lately. For some reason, however, today I feel pretty good. Must have something to do with not sleeping for a few days. I should do that more often ( Read more... )

I work as a tower construction engineer, which sounds like a nice little title there, but what it means is "tower monkey". I live in Michigan, right now it is winter, this means that it is so cold outside this time of year that you could be a be three feet tall, look down and spit, and your saliva would be frozen before it hits the ground. For you ( Read more... )