[pct-l] Free Beer, Vets Day, and the PCT.htm

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Reinhold, 
I for one, appreciate your humor.......and anyone else's.  Keep it comin'!  Life is short- when we can't be hiking, at least we can be laughing!  Of course, hiking  and laughing at the same time would be preferable!  I also appreciate the post by another member that gave the website for "hiking humor"!  Who knew there was such a thing??

Wheeew

Reinhold Metzger <reinholdmetzger at cox.net> wrote: 
Switchback,
Some of the humorless folks on this list don't seem to believe in the Bill
of Rights....they continuously try to shut us up or censor our freedom of
speech whenever we try to liven                    up the show.
As far as risking your life for a cause...I think a lot of guys would for
Angelina.
I mean the younger guys would...older guys like Tortoise would not....they
would not know
what to do with Angelina.

JMT Reinhold
One of the older ones
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Switchback wrote:

> Unsupported Reinhold writes: I've been  drinking...hic, I mean thinking,
> there ought to be free beer to
> seniors. I  mean...hic, we deserve it........we worked hard all of our
> lives,
> served our  country, and paid into the system...hic.
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Switchback replies: Yes, we senior hikers deserve to be respected and
> honored for our duty to our country -- everyone please send me $10.
> Especially
> when there seems to be so many who do not even know why they should  love
> their
> country.  I bet a lot of citizens under 35 would be hard press  to name
> three
> things they love about the America and what they would give their  lives
> for.
> Now days too many people parasite off the sacrifices and courage  of
> others --
> past and present.
>
>
> That is why I like the trail community.  In this case, the PCT  community.
> There seems to be a lot of folks who know what sacrifice and  continual
> vigilance is all about.  It is about using  and protecting a trail
> environment --
> giving back to your community  and country.  When you put something
besides
> yourself as very important,  that is admirable and a wonder human
> characteristic.
> Hurray for  hiker-trash and hard-core backpackers who honor the trail and
> remember  those who made it possible.  That is most of the folks on the
> PCT-List.
>
> Now I could go into why so many personal relationships fail and our
> mediocre
> school systems, but I will not -- off topic, taking up bandwidth,  etc.
> Ooops.  CRASH!!  I just fell off my soapbox, but not to  worry, I am okay.
>
> Cheers, Switchback the Trail Pirate
> PS: By the way, on your three things you love about America, you might
> start
> with the Bill of Rights.
>
>
>
>
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