TJ aka Teej
08-27-2003, 21:04
This was posted on the ATC site today >
http://www.appalachiantrail.org/trailnews/index.html
Message from Baghdad
An ATC member known on Internet hiking listservs as "Sgt. Rock" recently sent this note in response to a "care package" — "While you may appreciate the service I am doing, I greatly appreciate all of you and consider the jobs you all do vital to protecting a part of our country and way of life that many of us cherish. Instead of a government bureaucracy to create, maintain, and promote something as large and complex as the A.T., the time, effort, and money coming from volunteers just proves to me exactly why our country is so great. Nothing on that scale could be done here in Iraq without someone pointing a gun at someone else to force him or her to do it. The fact that individual citizens got together so many years ago to create the Trail and that it continues to happen generation after generation is truly amazing. It gives me great comfort to know that people like that exist in the world when I am currently in a place that is so devoid of positive social spirit."
August 27, 2003
http://www.appalachiantrail.org/trailnews/index.html
Message from Baghdad
An ATC member known on Internet hiking listservs as "Sgt. Rock" recently sent this note in response to a "care package" — "While you may appreciate the service I am doing, I greatly appreciate all of you and consider the jobs you all do vital to protecting a part of our country and way of life that many of us cherish. Instead of a government bureaucracy to create, maintain, and promote something as large and complex as the A.T., the time, effort, and money coming from volunteers just proves to me exactly why our country is so great. Nothing on that scale could be done here in Iraq without someone pointing a gun at someone else to force him or her to do it. The fact that individual citizens got together so many years ago to create the Trail and that it continues to happen generation after generation is truly amazing. It gives me great comfort to know that people like that exist in the world when I am currently in a place that is so devoid of positive social spirit."
August 27, 2003