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SGT Kevin Hughes
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One of the most difficult courses I ever took in College was a philosophy course. Since the Nuns told me no course could be "hard"...because hard was a physical property of real things, like wood, rocks, and steel- that ideas, thoughts, and concepts could never be hard, only difficult. She got mad at me when I showed her in a book on the Brain that Consciousness is considered "The hard Problem.' That is its official name.

All that got me was a couple of whacks with ping pong paddle with holes drilled in it so it would whistle on the way to your rear end AND smack with nice stinging slap sound.

But I digress...

When I went to college (the first couple of times...it took me a while to get my GPA to the left of the decimal) two Philosophy Courses were mandatory, as were at least one Ethics Class, and one Logic Class. All three are closely interlinked. By the 1980's I read in an article that none of the three schools of thought were required any longer for Undergrad Degrees.

Then I discovered that Law Schools (Law Schools!) dropped Ethics requirements. But the Medical Community and Research Community widened the scope of their "Ethics" Classes and even established codes an boards to ensure the ethical considerations of their work.

Reading through even this "Cliff Notes" version of Kant...was damn HARD!

I don't care what the Nun's say. (They aren't listening...are they?)
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SGT Kevin Hughes
SGT Kevin Hughes
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Col Carl Whicker - I love stories like this. I don't know why some are as lucky as you and your wife. I think us guys just fall head over heels in love and the girls think they could work with that. LOL I do think it is the woman who makes it work in any long term relationship. In most cases they have many options, and we usually don't. LOL
My Sister and her husband made it to fifty years before they both died (a year apart) and she told me once: "Kevin, Carl is the only man I ever kissed, and the only man I ever wanted to." Sometimes, we are born monogamous. And it works.
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Col Carl Whicker
Col Carl Whicker
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SGT Kevin Hughes - Well, I can't speak for everyone, but when you are both committed to the other one's happiness, things just seem to work out!
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SGT Kevin Hughes
SGT Kevin Hughes
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Col Carl Whicker - I couldn't agree more. Everyone told Kathy and I we would not make it: different Religions, Different Countries (She's Canadian), Different upbringing (she was rural poor on a farm in Canada, I was inner city poor in Ohio), and a host of other excuses for us to fail. Not the least of which was that I proposed to her the night I met her, and when she told her Church Leaders she fell in love with me- they sent her far away.

So other than the first six weeks of seeing her almost daily- I didn't get to see her for a Calendar year...except for one day- Christmas. She cut my hair. As soon as she got released and went home to Canada- she came back to Texas, and we got married. Those folks that didn't think we would make it? Some are gone from old age, five have divorced themselves, and we, well, we are beyond happy and sneaking very close to contented.
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Col Carl Whicker
Col Carl Whicker
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SGT Kevin Hughes - Good for you, Kevin. Living (and loving) well is the best revenge!
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PVT Mark Zehner
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Interesting man!
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CW5 Jack Cardwell
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Thanks for the history share.
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