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Eaglebauer On July 23, 2019
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#31New Post! Dec 01, 2011 @ 02:30:07
@eternus_somnium Said

Ugh, yeah, that sucked. It's like for 2 weeks you're a total novelty and then suddenly nobody gives a s*** to even speak to you.

At least, that is what happened to me a few times


Oddly, the hardest time I had being the new kid was when I was younger rather than older. I still remember my first day of third grade at a new school getting my face kicked in by the monkey bars.

I just kind of stood up and shrugged it off. What else do you do when you're friggin 8 years old without a friend in the world, ya know?
SpoOny On November 26, 2017
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Moo-Box, Finland
#32New Post! Dec 01, 2011 @ 02:32:23
@eternus_somnium Said

Yep. It really scared me how, after a few days, I could completely forget that I was friends with someone, just because it was too hard to deal with. I had trained myself not to care and would literally sever all contact. Thankfully (or maybe not) that changed the last time I moved.


Once you've had to let go of that first best friend, it's really difficult to find someone who can fill their shoes, sometimes no one can do that
Eaglebauer On July 23, 2019
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#33New Post! Dec 01, 2011 @ 02:35:25
@SpoOny Said

Yeah, and once that's happened a few times, you learn to distance yourself from others, cause you know you're just gonna have to leave them sooner or later anyway, so why bother getting to know them


I wrote this a little while back about a picture I found in my mom's photo album. It was taken when my mother, sister, and I were living in a little mountain town in Pennsylvania where mom grew up while my father was stationed in Okinawa for a year. He came back for Christmas and was getting ready to march in the town Christmas parade with my uncle who was also a Marine. We were standing on the town's main street together and he was in his dress blues.

Your post reminded me of the parenthetical toward the end of the poem.

Christmas 1978

A snapshot of uniformed Marine
he stands
strong
unapproachable
stoic.

There's a young boy in the photo
his son,
who was me.

He looks at his father,
an attempt to approximate the Marine's face
plays itself on the young boy's mouth
and unsullied eyes.

It cannot be complete though
Not yet--

for his eyes have not seen the same things
they do not know the hardship of manhood
of fatherhood
of awkward love
or of the loss of loved ones.

They have not learned to stop crying
at greivances forgone.

There's a road ahead of the boy
uprooting often
moving on,
friendless in the nomadic opera of his childhood

(there was always much to be done,
so none of us ever learned to say goodbye)

He will learn the look on his father's face though.
He will earn it well.
eternus_somnium On April 14, 2021
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, United States (general)
#34New Post! Dec 01, 2011 @ 02:47:05
@Eaglebauer Said

(there was always much to be done,
so none of us ever learned to say goodbye)



This says it perfectly.
firebrand On February 21, 2012




, Australia
#35New Post! Dec 01, 2011 @ 03:50:57
we had to have permission to get married, after a certain time period. that was usually after the initial 5 year contract.

having relationships was discouraged, so it was a rare event to come across a soldier that had children. if he did, they would be in his home country.
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