Giantbookofdeath

Wow, I never thought I’d see this on reddit. I served in Iraq as well but in 08-09 as an Apache mechanic. Thx for this AMA man, I feel like we have some similar experiences. I wanna know if having stupid amounts of money makes all the other shit easier. Depression and addiction obviously seem like they’ll still be there. Seriously, how do you manage. How do I figure it out as well and try to thrive. Pm me if you see this and have time to maybe help out a brother

Fucking feel you brother. Shits hard and it barely gets easier, and every time I start to feel like things will be fine life puts its boot back on my neck. If anything the give-a-fuck in me has just kind of disappeared so if it seems easier it’s probably only bc I no longer care. Do you think you would’ve ever changed or gotten better had you not had a daughter? I feel like it’ll take bringing another person into the world to get me to clean up but I’m in no position to have a child. I know having kids isn’t the answer but sometimes it seems like it could be. Like, I don’t fucking care about myself at all but I do care about the people that care about me and I would take having a kid very seriously. I’ve always sworn I’d be a great dad bc my dad disappeared when I was 3. I know what it’s like to be abandoned and I couldn’t do that to my kid. But it doesn’t seem like that’ll happen anyway anytime soon. And if I don’t find something else to get me off this path, idk where it’ll end. Fuck man, shit. Thx for responding, I know you got shit to do. I’m gonna go finish this 12 pack and try to get some sleep. Turned 31 today. Never thought I’d make it past 30 but here tf I am. Yeaaa.

Thx man. Actually your best friend sounds a bit like me. I’ve learned the happiness lesson and put it to use. I’m just fucked up today and don’t have anyone to talk to. Or it’s easier just throwing it out online to a stranger that doesn’t know me. Had what I thought was a good girl and after a few years of struggling with commitment issues and being afraid to settle we finally decided to get a place together. I thru down some substantial amount of money to get us in and keep her comfortable and last Thursday we moved in and had a place to our own. I’ve been practically homeless for the last year but more by choice that anything else. Saturday me and my girl were watching hanging at home and ordered some food off uber eats. Uber guy can’t find the front entrance so gf hands me her phone calling the driver and asks me to go get it. No problem right? While I’m heading downstairs it dings, look down and it’s some dude I don’t know. I look bc it’s kinda a flirty txt. Turns out they’re making plans for him to come over Sunday night after we have dinner with her fam and I go to work. Fucking lost it. 4 days after we move in. Finally feel like I have a home again and then boom world is kinda fucked again. Car sleeping sucks but that’s life. But I’ll be fine. Thx for listening man.

I’m not even sure what you’re talking about. I meant that they should use their platform in order to bring attention to something that could really help. If we could get 21 trillion dollars back then it could immensely improve our country. Although, I guess I did assume that they wanted to effect change in a positive way. My bad. I didnt intend an accusatory manner, and really I think you just took it the wrong way. Projection causes a lot of misunderstandings in these forums I think, so I forgive you for misunderstanding my intent. Also I’m not a boot licker. I don’t understand why I would try to have an interaction with these people on a random boot licker sub but I guess that makes sense to you so cool.

Have a good day man. Try some reading comprehension next time.

You might’ve been asked this last AMA, idk but do you support the pull out of Afghanistan? If not, how long would you had preferred that war to continue on? Also, if pulling out was so easy and blah blah then why didn’t previous presidents do it. Afghanistan was a needless war for the last 10 yrs only there to support the military industrial complex, and if I’m wrong please let me know. So trump could have pulled out but didn’t. Why didn’t he? Obama could’ve pulled out. Why didn’t he? Why does everyone blame Biden for finally be strong enough of a leader to pull out of Vietnam? Also, besides making more wealth for the complex as y’all chose to do after you got out of the army, what good was it to stay in Afghanistan?

Also, I’m a veteran of OIF, so as a veteran how do I go about making that my only life experience and somehow droll on about it for a few more years while sucking up funds from rubes? Podcast? Book deal?

Also, do y’all have any hobbies?