Education

[CharlesHarris]

I went to a US public school, which is quite different than those in UK.

My high school graduating class had 803 students. I was in a "home room" with problem children who had been placed there by the court. Our teacher and counselor was a WW2 vet, retired USMC Gunnery Sergeant who taught us how to respect ourselves and our mates. Most of my classmates were enrolled in the Reserve Officer Training Corps or ROTC, and many of them who were close to me served during the war in Vietnam and a number of them were killed.

I have kept in touch with many of my classmates, and they include retired military General Officers, "spooks," foreign service, intelligence community and various government workers from the "alphabet soup" agencies.

Society may have written us off, but we "turned out all right."

I did grow up with a cynicism towards the government and its political correctness. If they don't ME with MY gun, the nWTF should I trust THEM with THEIRS.


“When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America