I'd fight pretty hard to hit that...

I was draftable during the war in Vietnam, which I felt was a bad thing to do.  (I honor my friends who suffered and particularly those that died there, but I do not honor those who got us and kept us there.)I was in medical school then internship, residency, and fellowship and was never drafted.  I don't know what I would have done if drafted as a combatant.

I felt from the beginning the Iraq war was a bad thing.

In retrospect, I would have tried to avoid service in the first world war with American forces, the Spanish American War,and probably the Korean war except as a medic. I have never regretted taking care of anyone medically.

There are some very few necessary wars and I would have gladly served in those even if I couldn't have been a medic.

On the other hand, I love the women i have met hobbying and those friends with benefits.  I can't remember ever having regretted making love.

Love and War and Chemistry: a self memo

i am feeling philosophical again, sorry....

there are all sorts of ways of classifying people into types, many pretty complicated. a simple one i need to remind myself of today and  keep in mind is to remember that some would:

1) rather make war than love
2) rather make love than war
3) just don't know WTF

i need to remember: i am a 2 and can best hang out with 2s or maybe 3s. then there is the layer of possible difference between what one is and what one thinks one is. i need to remember that even more difficult than a type 1 is a type 1 who thinks of themself as a type 2.