I find that's usually the case with all things military. One of my coworkers, a retired small town police chief, is obsessed with military history. This week he's off to Gettysburg and then the Battleship New Jersey. He's always traveling to somewhere on his off time, has a huge surplus weapons collection including a vintage jeep, ala Rat Patrol. All this and he never served a day in the military. Don't get me wrong, he's a great guy, but he's very typical of that type. Those of us amongst the crew who are vets aren't nearly as obsessed with it as he is.
Also, I'm not accusing anyone of stolen valor, etc. It just seems that once you've lived it, the bloom's off the rose, as with most things.
We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.......
Is it wrong that I laughed my ass of when I read the headline and pictured someone stalking Matt Best with a suitcase full of ballgags.
The real irony is I absolutely cannot stand coffee. Army coffee ruined all of it for me, I just taste burnt up gritty beanwater unless there's enough foo-foo Vanilla 720 McTwist FrapaCaramel stuff added that I just taste those things... which is always ruined by an undercurrent flavor of gritty burnt beanwater.
PF ThreadDrift(tm) aside, I'm glad the FBI nabbed this weirdo before something awful happened to that woman. As @RevolverRob already covered, being a high profile social media persona, or any kind of celebrity comes with a bunch of really weird shit from social media these days.
A friend of mine is a stunt driver/precision driver for a lot of the movie and TV work in the region. We caught up this past Sunday over some delicious whisky, and he was telling me about his time working on NM sets for Season 4 of Stranger Things. While in a waiting/break area between scenes he ended up BSing with the Mom of one of the main characters in Stranger things. She was telling my buddy that they have a team of *twenty eight* (28) folks paid and some volunteer that manage his social media and screen everything before he gets to see any of it. She said that really creepy messages and pictures from older men make up a substantial percentage of that junk. That particular actor is like 20 years old and has had some of the same creepy stalking old men since the first episodes debuted in 2016, when he was 13 or 14 years old.
as my homie @JDM told me on a range trip, while his teenage daughter was running the wheels off of my transferable UZI:
"I believe in raising self-reliant and dangerous women"
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
Really odd my neighbor who is a scientist is absolutely enthralled with the USMC. He has a lighted flagpole and he flies Old Glory and the Eagle Globe Anchor below. I ran into him one time at the grocery and he had some sort of flight jacket and his cover with EGA.
I asked him if he had served and he said No but I really like them.
I really was at kind of a loss trying to fathom that.
As long as hes not doing stolen valor and he keeps his flags in good shape theres nothing really for me to say.
I'll wager you a PF dollar™ 😎
The lunatics are running the asylum