Ethics

So here is an ethics quiz. Are you ready?

You walk out to mail your stimulus check to the bank. Its a lazy day and you are not in a hurry. You bring a cup of coffee as you go. You don't want to spill it so you walk slow sipping the coffee.

Your next door neighbor seems to be having problems. She is yelling at her kids inside her apartment. Its loud you can hear it on the sidewalk. Not wanting to intrude you keep walking sipping your coffee.

You drop your letter in the mailbox and come back to your apartment. When you do you see the little old lady that is walking along. You wave and then you see a muscular man wave at the old lady too.

He pulls up in front of your apartment building and you get your personal episode of Sopranos. As you are going in you hear a slapping sound and the man telling the next door neighbor to get in there "b___h" and "Where is it b___h" "Get inside the house."

Your think your neighbor is going to get throttled until she gives the money up.
You don't here any more hitting just the women saying she will get it.

So your neighbor is getting the shake down what do you do?

A) Nothing, its not your problem.

B) Tell the big bull to not hit women.

C) Talk to the neighbor afterward about counseling agencies

D) None of the above (insert your own answer)

Semesters End

So the Semester is over and another has begun. I finished better then I did the mid semester courses. Mid Semester I finished two courses with Bs. Now I finished my remaining three with As. It is my hope that I finish my life in the same way, the last being of better quality and character then the first.

I am taking it easier this semester. I only have nine credit hours or three courses left. Instead of killing myself to finish this Sumer I am only taking one course of the three and finishing up CH-BOLIC. CH-BOLIC is the Army’s basic officer course. I am putting my packet together, taking care of errands and other loose ends to bring me back on active duty.

I went to Fort Lee, VA and scoped out the O-6. While there I thought to kill two birds with one stone and convert my enlisted dress uniforms for officer wear. I “accidentally” waited in the wrong area to turn in my Class A uniform. Anyway I sat for some time next to a SFC who was drilling over at Fort Lee. We struck up a conversation and I mentioned why I was there.

She asked how I could “just start over.” I gave her a standard answer but I think the question deserves a better answer. I had three answers in my head. Two of which I told her. I first told her that I was board. That being stuck in places at higher headquarters was tedious. Then I gave her a truer answer. I said I wanted to be back with the soldiers. There was a third answer moving around in my brain, that I was doing it for the money. Well none of them pass muster to be honest.

The real answer is that of hope. It is my hope that I can do better then I have done before. That I can be more than I have been. That with God I can accomplish what for many has seemed impossible. What before was unclear is becoming more clear to me.