Fried bologna is good, but I haven't had it for so long. Unfried bologna sandwiches with mayo, lettuce, and garden grown tomatoes was awful good, while baling hay, along with a cool glass of iced tea. And once I got old enough to partake of adult beverages, which was about 6th grade for me apparently, a cold beer washed it down well also.

Contrare, I respect your service to our country. One of the things I regret, after getting to know some vets, and hearing their stories, is that I didn't take time from my party years to serve the country in the armed forces. I guess coaching kids' wrestling, which might produce a heck of a special forces, hand to hand combat soldier, is gonna have to suffice. Along with supporting wholeheartedly the thankless jobs that our men and women do so you and I have the opportunity to yell at each other and make fools of ourselves.
I don't know how you vets put up with the lack of respect from the anti war crowd, and our current admistration's lack of a sense of reality when it comes to being a superpower. His latest stupid statement about "whether we like it or not, we are a superpower" was another indication of his dismissiveness of our role as a "mother hen" to those that can't fight for themselves. There are times when I want to say "screw you ungrateful SOBs, be it Iraq, Afghanistan, or wherever" but I guess we have to look at the broader picture of what it would mean to world security if we allow idiots to be in power. Hell, we have idiots in power, so I guess these other countries think we are hypocrits for telling them who should be their leaders!!

This doesn't mean I agree with much of what you say, so don't get a big head. Since you are a vet, I'll just be nicer.......