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| Jeez, it's been a while!
Well....I must admit. i've over-burdened myself! i check facebook regularly, myspace occasionally...xanga....every once in a great while. ha! And even better, I just started my own space at Blogspot. So...I'm thinking xanga's gotta go.
Honestly....Doug, you're the only one i know that uses this place! So....go on over to www.mkramerick.blogspot.com and see what i'm up to there! i'll try to check back here from time to time to see what you're up to....but i suck at it already, so i wont make any promises! hope all's well with your girl. Talk to ya later!
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| Great news....Cole and I both went out and got new tattoos today! hooray!!! I have to say it here, because i don't want to deal with my mom hearing about it just quite yet. ha.
But yes....Cole got the awesome Zia symbol (look up New Mexico State Flag) on his lower arm, and i got three Plumeria flowers on my upper arm! They are the most amazing flowers ever, they are so beautiful, and smell WONDERFUL. The artist did a great job on them both! Pictures will come soon...
Second, i'm feeling especially wonderful due to some perscription Percocet! Unfortunately, i have it because the dentist felt the need to saw down my jaw bone a few millimeters....now the left side of my face slightly resembles John McCain. boo! But the meds are great. That's for sure.
And another last great thing to add....We shall be home soon! We leave Guam on the 13th and head off to Dallas. Then, on the 23rd, we'll be on our way to St Louis! Hopefully we can hang out with some buddies, even if it's just for dinner or something small. Let me know when you're free, we leave St Louis on the 4th...the sister gets married on the 1st....Miss ya!!!
MK
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| So yea...it's been rough lately. I realized the other day that, since cole and I have been in Guam, 4 aircraft have either gone down or been nearly destroyed. It hasn't even been a full year yet. You can get all this at KUAM.com, so i'm not just making shit up.
First, a navy EA6 went down. Pilots ejected, were picked up by helicopter, all is well. Then, the B-2 went down. Again, both pilots ejected, all is well. Then, a B-1 somehow rolled into a fire truck....No injuries. I wasn't working on any of those shifts that went wrong, so i just heard about them afterwards.
But this past monday, we lost a B-52, and worse, i knew someone on board AND i was on shift when it went "missing". Turns out, it went down. As of yesterday, all on board were declared dead and the rescue effort became a recovery effort.
...In a way, i'm speechless. I mean...what are you supposed to say to that? How is it that an ordinary, every day flight can become a tragedy? Hell, they were on their way to celebrate Guam's equivelant of Independance Day. I guess that's just life keeping us in check, so we know that independance and liberty and freedom of any and every type just don't come without a cost.
Part of me wants to take this idea, embrace it, and become a life long military member. It's just so unfortunate that protecting liberty/freedom/everything above is lost to our leaders. It's more about numbers, efficiency, and mandatory "i want to stand on my soap box so you have to listen" events. What happened to simply protecting, defending, and providing freedom? Does liberty even exist anymore?
I wish so badly that i could see now, in 2008, the same kind of care and compassion and willingness to do good that there was back in WWII...back in WWI...and most importantly, i wish i could walk the streets of any town in America or any of it's provinces and see the patriotism seen in the American Revolution.
If that were the case...i would gladly, at any moment on any day in any year, raise my hand and say "hell yes, send me to fight that war"....Unfortunately, i think it's all too skewed now. Someone, please, convince me it's worth fighting. Because next month, i find out whether or not i'm going to be over there for 6 months. And right now, i'm really hoping not, because it all seems so useless. Not because of the Iraqis, not because of Al Queda....Because America is so separated and biased and corrupt that it's just not worth losing everything for.
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| I just realized that I haven't updated my profile on this thing in ages...my "about me" section still said "On march 8th, i leave for Air Force Basic Training"...that was almost 3 years ago! So i fixed that up a bit, and got a more recent picture up there too...good stuff.
So i had a flashback the other day, and realized i COMPLETELY FORGOT that I have a blogger account...so i went to see if it was still there, and sure enough...it was weird to read through it, very weird. I started it right when i got to Shaw, and it was supposed to be something i updated all the time during my entire military career...well, i skipped a little over a year by accident. oh well. We'll see if i can keep it up now.
www.sticksstonesandbrokenbones.blogspot.com
mk
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| I dreamed I was missing
You were so scared
But no one would listen
Cause no one else cared
After my dreaming
I woke with this fear
What am I leaving
When I'm done here
So if you're asking me I want you to know
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that i've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest
Don't be afraid
I've taken my beating
I've shared what i made
I'm strong on the surface
Not all the way through
I've never been perfect
But neither have you
So if you're asking me I want you to know
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that i've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest
Forgetting
all the hurt inside you learned to hide so well
Pretending
someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest
Forgetting
all the hurt inside you learned to hide so well
Pretending
someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are
--Linkin Park
"Leave out all the rest"
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