I had a very tossy-turny night filled with strange dreams of Take Ten in army suits. I don’t think that I’ll fall asleep in the canoodle cup again by myself. My back hurteth and my alarm had little effect on me.
You know, even though Vietnam was kind of a useless war, and our little jaunt to Iraq is beginning to get stale, it doesn’t mean that all the soldiers are worthless. People were so mean to those who served in Viet Nam. Just because politicians got us into a mess because of being probably a little too afraid of the Reds doesn’t mean that the soldiers who did their bidding were losers.
I just recently had one of my readers send me a message stating, “Hmm. For the record. the Reds are Commuists. You may want to rename the people of the Middle East accordingly. :)”
For those of you who didn’t understand my post, when I referred to the “Reds,” I actually did know that it meant Communists, and I did use the word accordingly. If you would kindly defer your thoughts from the War On Terrorism for that sentence and focus it primarily on the Vietnam War so as to not confuse yourself, this would be greatly appreciated. I even mentioned Nam again in the sentence before so as to not confuse people, and spoke of the politicians and the soldiers in the past– not the present. I thought those two writing strategies combined would cause the reader to infer “Vietnam War.” Forgive me for my poor writing. Perhaps this is why the publisher doesn’t like me.
P.S. You should have used a comma instead of a period, and Communist is spelled “C O M M U N I S T.” :)
Publishers DO want you I can’t believe you said that. Be nice to yourself. You love writing and I say you’re good at it.