34 optimistic hopeful
34 optimistic hopeful
friday, 27 june, 03
' where there's life, there's hope.'
 (' bob hope' was the soldier's rhyming slang for dope, cannabis sativa during the vietnam war, which has nothing to do with this coding!).
 more than civilians with a current estimated 75% suffering from some form of depression, hope is generally present until shell shock, the state where the thousand-yard stare, appears.
 while this at some future stage might develop into ptsd, at the time this state appears it is alleviated by cessation of the intensity of the battle fought, with attendant receipt of reinforcements and attendant 'on the job' training, mail, water, perhaps a hot meal, and, better yet, with ice cream (battle of the dak to hills).
 this coding is directly related coding 'cargo cult songs' ;
 soldier society is a traditional society as opposed to western consumer, media shaped hyper real narcissistic society.
 soldiers in combat, especially infantrymen, have few, if any, material possessions;
 perhaps a necklace (with peace symbol) or bracelet (vietnam montagnard).
 even issue items are in short supply, or absence, thus the frequently heard 'can I have your boot laces (or other commodity) when you die?'
 the distribution of goods, even service owned is arranged prior to death.
 the navy has a tradition of 'auctioning off' such personal goods that are 'left over' to send additional funds to sailor's family.
 the best known illustration of this in the western world is roman legionnaires sitting at the base of jeshua ben joseph (jeshua is a cognate of the hebrew joshua, the first hebrew soldier, which is also a descendant of both christian and islamic militaries contemporarily).
 still hanging on the cross.
 civil society perceives this as the callous 'gambling' (the bible uses the term 'casting lots',
which in this case, in service circles, is perceived as just distribution of a mates goods, rather than gambling them to acquire for personal gain).
 service society perceives the christ, and his mate peter (petrus cephas) to be 'one of our own'.
 they are not 'gambling' for his clothes a civil society, religious and secular believe, but diving much needed replacement sandals and clothing;
 despite contemporary western mythology, the desert, and even the highland jungles of new guinea, vietnam, are freezing to lightly clothed and ill supplied soldiers.
 the hope of survival in combat, is probably more often wished for soldier's with families than for the individual soldier's own survival.
 the songs:
1.
welcome soldier, welcome
2.
when this flamin' war is over
3.
bells of hell
4.
glorious
5.
digger's dream
6.
battle of dak to hills x 3?
7.
grunt blues
8.
milne bay