I recently began reading a book that people have been telling me for quite some time that I really need to read and it is even on the official US Army reading list. For various reasons I kept passing on reading the book, but now I’m glad I finally decided to read this book. This book was written in 1959 and it is amazing how many of the themes of the book fit in with contemporary attitudes today. Take this passage for example:
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Paul Verhoeven purposely trashed the book when he made the movie of the same name. He thought the book was right-wing extremism, so he went to work mocking the messages of the book when he made the film. That is why the movie was dumb–it was meant to be. It was an obscene caricature of the book, done to belittle the original author and those who enjoyed his work.
Anyway, welcome to the dark side. Hope you end up re-reading the book as many times as I have.
Marcus
The movie could not possibly have kept up with the book in 1962. Movies back then almost never did. It would have made the already long movie unbearable for the audience of that time. Audiences now can take a 3 hour movie easily and happily but back then it was a different story. Also, many of the themes in the book would have been lost on its contemporary audience.
Well, don’t i feel silly
Well, anyway…a good read and also likely on a list of Army recommended reading somewhere.
…and any other books that might be interesting…
…except erotic stories of sweaty, ball-gagged men engaged in carnal acts dressed as leather-clad Nazis with butt-less chaps.
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I think the military service should be requirement in US for all those who wants the permanent Resident alien card (Green Card). They can only serve in the non-security related MOS and units where security clearance is not required. Then after first three years of honorable service, then they can be elegible for “Green” Card for themselves and their direct family members.
Just imagine all those young people who wants the Green Card lining up in front of the recruiting station. I know so many Korean international students and Korean business representatives in CONUS asked me if they can join the US military.
I am not advocating the importing of potential recruits into our military from overseas. I am just making a suggestions to allowed for those who are residing in the USA legally but does not have “Green” Card. I am talking about those who has Student visa or Work Permit. They are very well documented in DHS BCIS registry when they applied for those visas prior to arrival to US. Problem is that many of them wanted to stay in USA as permanent resident, but their visa will not allowed them to stay any longer once they either graduated from college or finished their contract with their employers.
So here is people who are documented by USG and very well educated but if they wanted to serve in US military, they are not eligible. Some of them lived in states for 4-10 years. Some of them even have children born in USA which made their children automatic US citizen. But I have witness family saparation due to their visa expired and some of these US citizen minors end up staying with someone else in USA and his/her parents had to return to their home country.