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Jun 02, 2005 22:33

Captain Yossarian, 28, Assyrian, bombardier for Squadron 256, based in Pianosa. I’m currently trying to finish flying my missions, and get away from all the bastards who are trying to kill me. This is pretty damn difficult when it encompasses almost everyone I know, and most of the people I don’t. Complete strangers try to shoot me; it’s crazy ( Read more... )

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foxhuntingman June 2 2005, 21:45:29 UTC

I remember that. It really starts to make you feel like everything's gone mad when you stop to think about it. Which I normally didn't, as I had people to look after, but still...

At any rate, pleased to meet you, and I hope you come through all right - touch wood!

Oh, right. *grins* I'm George Sherston, formerly of the infantry - British, naturally.

sane_bombardier June 3 2005, 09:02:36 UTC

It's crazy not to think about it. It's around you all the time and yet people are blind to it. And then they declare me insane because I point it out. I'm only looking after me - it seems to be the general attitude around here. I'd be a damn fool to think any other way.

Anyway, nice to meet you George.

foxhuntingman June 3 2005, 16:49:25 UTC

*stiffly* Clearly you're not a field officer. My men were the sum and the whole of my responsibilities, and I took their care very seriously. They were important.

Perhaps believing that makes me a damn fool, I don't know.

Typist: Have I said yay Yossarian yet? Because, well, yay Yossarian! (Even if he's now setting off Sherston's "Bloody flyers" instincts. *pats the captain*)

sane_bombardier June 3 2005, 18:46:39 UTC

I did not mean to imply you are a damn fool. We are/were fighting different wars. Here, a man's responsibility is to himself. I only wish our field officers took the job as seriously. As it is, Cathcart almost wet his pants with excitement when he heard two men had been shot down, since it means he can send letters to their families and be recognized as a sensitive soul. It makes me sick.

Typist :D

foxhuntingman June 4 2005, 16:25:10 UTC

Bastard. You get staff officers like that, but the line ones generally don't behave that way. Mostly because if they do they get shot...

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