Hi all: I commend poibagz for sticking up for minority voices amid the clamor of majority consternation. When Kaua'i native Richard Uejo was WWII infantry, his drill sgt. asked him, "Why aren't you yelling in cadence?" Richard bellowed, "Sgt., I don't have to use foul language to be a good soldier. I'm sorry, but that's my Christian upbringing." The super-human drill sgt. immediately did an about-face/swift reverse, & Richard wondered if Richard was going to get court-martialed. Well, 2 days later Richard gets called into the chaplain's office where the company chaplain asks him, "Son, may I indulge you to join our chaplain corps? We need a good man like you." Richard was stunned, then overwhelmed with gratitude for the magnanimous attitude of Richard's drill sgt., who for all intents/
purposes exuded mucho macho brass balls. Bottom line is that Richard respectfully declined the chaplain's offer, but till this day laments terribly over Richard's inability to have thanked personally the providential/divine drill sgt., inasmuch the drill sgt. got called off to active duty amid WWII's maelstrom. Poibagz' valor calls back to an older age when Richard and his drill sgt. unintentionally imprinted on us all that love conquers all, that strength is in the heart, not in the incendiary world of word pictures as projected by conflagrationists who choose to scorch freedom of expression for the sake of unitron conformity [of THEIR THOUGHTS, to the
exclusion of all else in freedom's diversity/pluralism
as our innate heritage]. Thank you, & aloha, -Curt