Originally posted by Officer of Engineers
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Originally posted by Officer of Engineers
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To be completely honest, though, I'm not sorry about the way I had to learn some of life's lessons. In order to build yourself up you need to tear yourself down first, and being in a war is something not many people can claim, and something that definitely has shaded my outlook on life. It is a shame people had to die, but again, that's life in the service, no?
I don't remember who said it, but there's something along the lines of "When I was 17, my parents were by god the two dumbest people on the face of God's earth. They didn't know a damn thing. By the time I turned 22 it surprised me how much they managed to learn in 5 years". Oscar Wilde also said it: "I'm not young enough to know everything"
Thanks for the tutelage, Colonel, and everyone else, as well.
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