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The Noncomformist


by

John Williams

I don't know why the hell you did not keep your head down like I told you. One would think that even a troglodyte like you would have understood. I have preached until I was blue in the face, and to what avail, I ask you? Is it because you think I am stupid and that I don't know what I am talking about? The truth is boy I do not care a dam about you as an individual. In this game it has to be number one, but number one depends on team work and mutual trust. That is what it is all about. The one lesson you could not understand. You are not infallible, nor are you so damned clever that you can afford to be so dismissive about virtually everything you're told. You sat and looked at me and no doubt thought there he goes again - knows it all. I never understood selfless coon loving liberals like you, and especially when they double up as religious maniacs when it suits them. In my experience, but I doubt if you are interested, the really clever ones are the ones who temper their mediocracy with liberal doses of genuine fear. I understand that type. They are predictable so that people like me can take action to compensate for their inexperience. Have you ever considered there is nothing new in this god-damned world? What we experience today is something millions before us have experienced in one form or another. Our response should take into account their mistakes and successes and act on it. That is the lesson; ignore it at your peril.

Jesus wept! What a disaster you have turned out to be. I am the one who has to write to your mother, to tell her how we all admired you as a soldier and colleague. I can hardly tell her the truth can I?

God only knows we all have weaknesses. Mine, boy as I told you, is writing to the deceased next of kin and the other is tobacco - you know about that. I'll smoke this fag in your memory. After dark I'll have to shove you in the nearest shell hole. This fox hole is too small for for the both of us.

Why the hell didn't you listen to me?

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