This board is pretty funny.
Ok I lied. It isnt funny at all.
I graduated Elan In October of 2001 after serving 14 months.
Elan was a scarry place to be.
But it had nothing to do with the people, or the program.
Witnessing the September 11th terrorist attacks made being in Elan very unsettling.
October 28th, I enlisted in the Marines and reported for basic training on January 15th 2002 at Parris Island South Carolina.
After basic training, I was moved to San Diego for tactical weapons training.
I spent 16 months working my ass off, learned how to hit a target with a bullet from 2000 yards away, and learned how to be invisible.
On August 4th, 2004 I boarded a plane.
6 days, 5 planes, two helicopters, and 4 continents later, I was in Iraq.
I was 22 years old, in a foreign country full of people who hated me.
Ive been home for 12 days.
While I was there, I saw children die. I saw children kill. I saw children suffer, and steal. I saw adults rape children, beat children, and I saw children as young as 13 give birth to more children. I saw some of those children starved to death, or burried in a hole at birth. I saw children who did the same thing every day. Beg for food, beg for water. Mothers begged me to shoot their children.
I was forced to kill children as young as 16.
If they had a weapon, and discharged that weapon, I was ordered to terminate them.
Period.
4 months ago I was shot in the head.
Nothing on the left side of my body works any more.
I spent 1 month in Germany, and 2 months in a US military hospital in London.
I have absolutely nothing to complain about except one thing.
What the fuck did any of you do after Elan?
What the fuck have you done for someone else after our country was attacked, and almost 3000 people died in New York City?
What the fuck have you been doing while 3000+ US soldiers have been killed in Iraq?
Sitting in here complaining about some guy named Marty?
Making up some stupid fucking story about Art, and Dave, and Phil and Bob and Joe fucking blow?
What the fuck do ANY of you have to complain about?
A silly fucking school in Maine that treated you with little or no respect? How many of you fucks deserved respect?
For what? Because your a fucking human being?
You assholes had a warm fucking bed to sleep in every night. You had food, you had television.
You had someone else PAYING for you to be in Elan regardless if they knew what goes on there or not.
Most of all, you fucks had an END in sight.
I went to Elan because I fucked up.
Illinois paid for me to be in Elan.
Let me rephrase that. Illinois TAXPAYERS paid for me to be in Elan.
I joined the military to pay Illinois back with my service regardless of the fact that I didnt like Elan, and Elan is a fucked up place I learned that nothing, even what you dont want is free.
Nobody in Elan is a demon. theres not one staff member there who wouldnt give up thier happiness for yours. I doubt anyone can disagree because every staff member in Elan gives up a normal life to BE a staff member.
Whether they did a good job with YOU or not, are they due a "thanks for trying"
They didnt fucking put you there! They didnt decide if you needed to be in Elan or not.
You fucking people are lost.
If you care so much about Elan and the children that are exposed to the people and the practices there tell me, what the fuck do you DO about it?
Join a website called "Fornits" and complain about what YOU went through. FUCK what YOU went through. Nobody fucking cares, especially when you are all foul mouthed disrespectful anonymous fucking punks who dont have the BALLS to stand up and say
THIS IS MY NAME AND THIS IS HOW I FEEL.
I thought I hated Elan once until I got back into the real world.
Heres what the real world is.
Fight for your country who will let you sit and rot in a foreign hospital.
Fight for your country who doesnt even know your name.
Fight and die for a country that takes its freedom for granted so much that it abuses that freedom by participating in websites like these the SAY but never DO.
Fuck all you snivelers. All this shit, and then some more about how "FORNITS" could be such a productive place?
Bullshit.
Fornits will never beanything but a place for all you god damned crybabies to park you ass in a chair and complain.