Spion: I believe that I was quite clear that Morris fabricates and misrepresents, or used to since has "Converted to the Right", his "info." You make your claim and ignore everything I posted which absolutely proves his dishonesty.
Garfield: Where am I from? My father was born in "Palestine," but due to his having came to work in the USA I was born there. As a young boy I spent all summers in Israel and then went there permanantly before I was a teen. I then entered the army at age 16 and served almost 6 years in Lebanon during Galilee.
You want the full scoop? I left Active Duty (I reupped after my mandatroy which is no longer an easy thing to do but was at the time of our big war) at age 22.5 and headed on my Walkabout which is what most of us do after our Active Duty.
Mine, with my squadmates (surviving) and some of our platoon mates began in Thailand where we based in Bangkok while exploring the region for nearly a year. At age 23 and change I headed back to the US for a stab at money. My nation was converting from heavy Socialism to Capitalism and unemployment (I had not even gotten into my higher education yet) was mad high.
I worked as a mover , a rade we control actually, in the NYC area and headed to Delray Beach in Florida to work at a branch of the biz. Then to the other coast of Florida, Tampa, and then back north.
Time for Reserve Call up, did mine, came back to NYC and began driving lorries, 53 foot trailers filled with extruded aluminum between there, Tampa, and Dallas Texas with stopovers in Lousinanna (Sidell).
Interesting, yes?
In my first year of military service I took bullet fragments through ther bottom of my chin and up into my sinuses where some still sit. It took part of my jaw with it, blah,blah. By age 20 I took shrapnel and had a few months back south and they sent me to Techkino where i majored in agirucltural sciences.
I only managed a few semesters though as i mentioned earlier, not having much of a higher education. Back in the States though i enrolled in NYU, the State university in NY and managed to get to my 3rd year and switched majors to anthropology which has always been quite interesting.
By the end of the year though I had a brainstorm and combined my 2 interests into a major of ethno-botany and transferred to the ethno program at Ithaca, also in NY, but north of the cty.
4th year, bac for Reserves.
Graduated.
Did my mandatory little internship in the field at Bronx Botanical Gardens but by this point I managed to snag a union book as an excavator, what they call a Sandhog in the States.
From that point i worked underground, not always doing Reservesa but doing enough to serve in both so called Intifadehs although in one I did not see any combat.
Finallly last year I served in he short war, and had managed to cashier out as a Captain. In my country we do not promote to thaty rank except for combat time, and then afterwards it is based n aptitude and connections.
Want more? At 16 I was matched with a girl whose clan came from Yemen, we had 4 kids, one died in infancy. 3 are alive, thanks to G-D, with all 3 in Active Duty.
I also fathered 3 children in N. America, 2 in America and 1 in Mexico.
Let me see...Ahhhh, my opiate clouded brain....that is courtesy of a PLO bullet fradment that got me addicted to morphine. The army iniated methadone for many of us, which I was on for almost 17 of my 24 years of addiction. I am now back on morphine, although it is a maintenance dosage of 90 mgs. IR, in a single 24 hour period so I unfortunately do not manage to get "Clouded" too much. In fact it merely allows me to hold my food down.
I have also manmaged to travel quite a bit but have never been to Australia, NZ, and a few others. Nepal is one I intend to visit as well as Tibet, just got back from Cambodia and Thaialdn although I skipped Laos.
More? This is better than my BL Journal! I live here on Mindnao where we have the NPA, communist insurgents in combat about 1.5 km to my south as the mountains begin, with US forces particpating against this nation's Constitution, for anyone who cares. We also have 4 to 5, depending whom you speak to, Islamic insurgencies, 3 of which target people like me and this is why I am constantly armed while home.
I make my bread and butter milling rice and corn, I share 7 mills with my inlaws, we have 16 parcels of farmland owned and a few more leased, we mostly have wetlands for rice but we also grow Facalta and Miragyna for the furniture industry.
We also broker shiploads of other producer's lumber and have just expanded up into Japan.
I have a personal fetiliser manufacturing mill here, and have begun wholesaling Mitragyna (Kratom since it is Speciosa) whole leaf and even have 2 customers in the UK, plenty more in the EU but have not managed US Customs yet. Part of the reason I am going to NYC before the current Visa stamp expires April 1.
Want more?
Married to a 24 year old Filipina whom I met as an infant since her dad is my best friend, met him in Israel.
We though have not maged young ones yet.
My full name is Rachamim Ra'anan Ben Ami, my religious name is Yosef Mendel Ben Yankel Yehudah....What else? My Haftorah Parsha was Acrai Mot....
My Brigade was NACHAL< my g'dud was the 50th, you can even see me on Youtube if you give a damn. Spent most of my 23 years as aCommand Seargant, but was promoted while waiting to cross into Lebanon n 06.
Anything else "GARFIELD?" Tell me, did they argue with your mum when she put that on your birth certificate?
