It's Friday! Woo! Today has been a really 'off' day for me. I've been tired all week and, for the first time in a long time, I came home and took a nap. When I woke up, the gym was already almost closed. Needless to say, I didn't do anything physical today. When sitting down has me nodding off in less than a minute, I tend to listen... Yet, it still took me a really long time to fall asleep when I actually wanted to. I hate that. When I woke up, I proceeded to be lazy.
Today was the memorial service for one of our sergeants who left this post a ways back and then died in combat in Iraq. I've never been to a Marine memorial service before. I was worried that it would be some sort of overly-scripted, retarded affair... but it wasn't. The only problem was when one particular Marine got up at the end to exercise his soap box. Not cool. Besides that one little annoyance, there was a lot of good things said about this particular Marine, the life he lived, and what kind of example that set for the rest of us. It was driven home further by the first-generation naturalized American who had to speak on her experiences with this particular Marine and what she felt for all of us and our (and I include her in 'our') country.
My platoon commander wanted us to meditate on her words: worth dying for. I think I've found a lot of things that are worth it.
Language: Today was a review day followed by a video. It pretty much sucked as I was bored and irritable most of the day. I wasn't even free to study how I wanted to.
Personal: I'm a horrible person. And it rocks.
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