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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-17-06 06:05 PM
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3. They sure do. Not even a day after one group returned here
Edited on Mon Apr-17-06 06:06 PM by Solly Mack
and they were all at the PX buying Plasma TV's, home theatre systems, new stereo systems and cars.

I watched smiling - they were happy to be home and happy to be alive.

Course, I also thought they should be saving/investing...but I couldn't really blame them.

"When I get home" is a game soldiers play. They promise themselves some future reward for living.

Hard to fuss about investing and saving for the future when the future may not come.
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  -Returning from war, soldiers splurge deadparrot  Apr-17-06 05:55 PM   #0 
  - does anyone find it the least bit ironic...  ret5hd   Apr-17-06 05:58 PM   #1 
  - Well if anyone has earned it  Demobrat   Apr-17-06 06:04 PM   #2 
     - If you ask me, people who protested against the war deserve it more  Commie Pinko Dirtbag   Apr-19-06 01:08 PM   #19 
  - They sure do. Not even a day after one group returned here  Solly Mack   Apr-17-06 06:05 PM   #3 
  - My husband says that every time I talk to him,  WakeMeUp   Apr-17-06 07:06 PM   #6 
  - How much longer, WakeMeUp?  Solly Mack   Apr-18-06 04:52 AM   #15 
     - Thanks for the hugs!  WakeMeUp   Apr-18-06 04:03 PM   #17 
  - Very common, in fact.  Big_Mike   Apr-17-06 08:04 PM   #11 
     - lol! The teen years are like sitting in the passenger seat of a car  Solly Mack   Apr-18-06 05:10 AM   #16 
  - There was an article in the Charlotte Observer last month about this  Lastlaughin08   Apr-17-06 06:19 PM   #4 
  - I have read those reports too....they are trying to get the  MadMaddie   Apr-17-06 07:09 PM   #7 
  - I have read those reports too....they are trying to get the  MadMaddie   Apr-17-06 07:09 PM   #8 
  - Same thing happened to WWII veterans  davepc   Apr-17-06 10:46 PM   #14 
  - Does this surprise you?  brmdp3123   Apr-17-06 06:28 PM   #5 
  - So THAT'S where the economy is booming...  Thor_MN   Apr-17-06 07:12 PM   #9 
  - It's a classic symptom of PTSD.  LynnTheDem   Apr-17-06 07:30 PM   #10 
  - The need for the adrenalin rush maybe?  chimpsrsmarter   Apr-17-06 08:23 PM   #12 
  - Soldiers ALL do this.  SoCalDem   Apr-17-06 09:00 PM   #13 
  - Seems like the military might offer a "Planning for your future" seminar  lindisfarne   Apr-19-06 01:00 PM   #18 
 

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