Comments on: Leather Dog Tags https://www.raggedclown.com/2024/02/20/leather-dog-tags/ forget about today until tomorrow Sat, 07 Dec 2024 14:34:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: Justine https://www.raggedclown.com/2024/02/20/leather-dog-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-100864 Sun, 25 Feb 2024 16:11:40 +0000 https://www.raggedclown.com/?p=7531#comment-100864 That’s amazing that your D.O. never spoke to you again. Now I’m wondering what would have been acceptable. Was any religion okay? Did it have to be an Abrahamic religion? Would Hinduism have received the same treatment? Or was it simply having a lack of belief that was offensive or incomprehensible?

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By: Claire ATX https://www.raggedclown.com/2024/02/20/leather-dog-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-100862 Sun, 25 Feb 2024 15:09:10 +0000 https://www.raggedclown.com/?p=7531#comment-100862 ‘Stopped believing’ reminds me of the passage in Mark Twain’s novel, Huckleberry Finn, where Huck is trying to decide between revealing the slave Jim’s location or not. In the end, he decides to go against the Bible and protect Jim. “Alright, then, I’ll go to hell.” Beloved passage in American literature

I will be interested to read your story

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By: Ragged Clown https://www.raggedclown.com/2024/02/20/leather-dog-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-100861 Sun, 25 Feb 2024 14:25:54 +0000 https://www.raggedclown.com/?p=7531#comment-100861 In reply to Claire ATX.

Dog tags last forever, I think. Looking back, it’s a little bit weird that my D.O. looked at my tags. That had never happened before and I had already been in the navy five and a half years by then.

I’ll write about the ‘stopped believing’ story one day soon.

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By: Claire ATX https://www.raggedclown.com/2024/02/20/leather-dog-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-100860 Sun, 25 Feb 2024 10:57:45 +0000 https://www.raggedclown.com/?p=7531#comment-100860 How durable are the leather dog tags in salt water?

It is remarkable that you remember the exact date of that you stopped believing in God.

In Ken Burns documentary, War, an American Jewish soldier tells the story that he was told to wrap his dog tag around his hand and wear a glove. Then if he were captured by Nazis, he could drop the glove to avoid instantaneous death if captured. His dog tag had an H for Hebrew.

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By: Janet https://www.raggedclown.com/2024/02/20/leather-dog-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-100837 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 03:00:44 +0000 https://www.raggedclown.com/?p=7531#comment-100837 It was tremendously freeing for me to come out of that particular closet (encouraged by my mother of all people). I have been surprised by how many people “feel sorry” for me and how hesitant they are to accept my assurances that, “No, seriously, I am happier and less fearful believing what I believe than I was when I tried to believe what you believe.” I’m ok with it, really! Am going to read this more thoroughly now for all the details but your first couple of paragraphs got me all distracted LOL

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By: Robin https://www.raggedclown.com/2024/02/20/leather-dog-tags/comment-page-1/#comment-100832 Tue, 20 Feb 2024 20:03:10 +0000 https://www.raggedclown.com/?p=7531#comment-100832 I am so delighted you had the guts to say atheist. Once in the 70’s I asked for affirm when on jury service. Later ALL the others said they wished they had affirmed!

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