If you ain’t Appalachian with a gun, you deserve to die. If you don’t believe in the Christian god, you deserve to die. If you’re wounded, you deserve to die. If you’re a bad guy in general, you deserve to be tortured before you die. There’s never a guy behind you with a gun. But there is a godless commie with an MK-97 mag loader glockenspiel autofire launcher who has eyes on your six.

If you’re Russian, Chinese, Mexican or Iranian (make that Persian), you sound like a Native American, maybe. The ‘e’ in ‘the’ and the ‘a’ in ‘a’ are usually pronounced long, Much more military-like.

I promised myself that I’d finish this thing precisely because it’s not in my personal echo chamber. Now I remember why my personal echo chamber is what it is.