On 06-14-08, ROSS CASSELL said to BOB KLAHN:

RC>Hello Bob!

RC>14 Jun 08 16:53, you wrote to Stan Hardegree:

SH>> What do you know or care about taxes?  You are on welfare.

BK>  For someone who spent his whole life living off the govt, that's
BK>  pushing it. Except for your failed attempt to make it in the
BK>  private sector.

RC>My father spent all but a few years of his working years, working for the
RC>United States Govt. Four years in the United States Army (Korea era) and
RC>the remainder until 1987 for the National Security Agency with an ungodly
RC>high security clearance, having briefed military base commanders and
RC>Aircraft Carrier Commanders on encrytion codes, he currently is subsisting
RC>on his pension.

RC>Every day when he was working, he got up at 5:30am for the 50 mile one way
RC>commute to Ft Meade MD, carpooling, traffic jams and coffee, he went to
RC>work like every other working American. The only rub is, he couldnt talk
RC>about his work when he got home each day.

RC>Are you saying my father was/is a failure, if so, FUCK YOU!

RC>Working for the public sector does not equate to failure, leeching off of
RC>the funders of the public sector is more like it.


My stepfather was in the Navy for 22 years. He was aboard the USS Tangier
anchored about fifty feet away from the USS Utah in Pearl Harbor on the
morning of December 7th, 1941, when the Jap planes arrived and started their
bombing runs.


My stepfather's AA gun crew shot down two of the three Jap planes the Tangier
destroyed.


The Utah was hit and ultimately went bottoms-up.


From there he took part in the battle of Coral Sea, the battle of Midway,
several amphibious assaults ferrying Marines ashore under heavy Jap fire
during various taking of islands.


He had several medals, including two Purple Hearts.


When he retired from the Navy, he was a First Class, got his hard-earned
retainer check from the Navy each month, and went to work at the California
First Bank until he retired.








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