..:. Cracking My Vainpot .:..

"They say I ask for too much from others, in terms of trust, commitment."

What the military taught us is to give 110% in everything, whether it's combat or relationship, he said.

He is so ridiculously strong, he has seen so much, yet the look in his eyes is so tender.

After we both came, the young soldier put his dog tags back on.

"I never go anywhere without them."

You know what they're for, he asked.

"One goes around your neck, one goes on your toe."

When you're diseased, he added

"They'd actually shove it inside your mouth. Kinda strange that people wear them casually as bling."

Perhaps a rather unusal if not macabre topic for postcoital sweet nothing.

But it did make me think.

When somebody is prepared to serve and die for his country, why should it matter if he's black or white, gay or straight?

"Don't ask don't tell" is simply an insult to all soldiers.