I have great respect for Admiral William McRaven. I am more than twenty years older than he is, and I lived through WW2, and like him, my humble parents, and my six brothers and sister, had to go through some cruel war experiences. While my brother worked inconspicuously on aircraft for the British Air Force, in absolute silence, my other brothers and I spent our early lives being inconspicuous working in silence dealing with designing and making and installing armaments on British Naval Ships. I worked silently, hidden in surface ships and in the hulls of submarines including repairing secret coding machines and tuning gun automatic control systems and homing torpedoes, while later I worked unseen in designing and making hospital diagnostic and surgical equipment, even for heart operations and a few prosthetic aids for military veterans. I was a concealed consultant to many industries, including solving many problems in Electric Power Stations and about one thousand court cases trying to assess very difficult situations, many involving deaths. Unlike McRaven, what many others and I did in life was always so concealed, confidential, tangible, guaranteed form, normally done in absolute silence where few people knew what I was doing, including when overseeing the loading and unloading of ammunition in a high-density electromagnetic field near a German high powered transmitting station, where I was faced with national security, all done in a silent inconspicuous form. I designed and made all the sensitive instruments I needed for measuring the invisible electromagnetic fields around me. I wish to talk to Admiral William McRaven as man to man, about the qualities of how we were tacitly and subtly molded to fit a role, as I do believe that, in religions, politics, and the military, what counts most, is normally not said! It was not the SEAL training that made Admiral William McRaven, as adventurous and as conspicuous as he is, but it was his own wise father, tacitly molding him to learn to balance out, his own guilt with his apparent and real successes and lies or euphemistically, words arranged accordingly, ambiguously, intentionally unfocused, blurry, and misty, and for not punishing him when he deserved it. His father did not make him crawl for hours in sticky mud and icy water for just not folding the sheets of his bed and not polishing his belt buckles and his shoes to a relatively unknown measure. His father closed his eyes when his own son, young Bill, HE VENTURED, HE RISKED, HE BROKE THE LAW, HE LIED AND HE GOT AWAY WITH IT, after entering a high-security ammunition depot,. and that instigated in him to seek more adventures in life, backed by the nation's financial system and a university degree in public journalism which would make him vociferously talented to chose his spoken or written published words, always according to the audience he has before him. He even permutated a selection of words to the Papal Nuncio, that war and killing people is legitimate, verified by the Pope himself in the Holy wars in the period between 1095 and 1271, and also using rituals and verbosity in easing his own conscience for his mistakes, by personally offering a vociferous well-prepared apology and two sheep, a gesture and a ritual, he thought would balance out the very painful grieving of an Afghan father who lost five of his innocent children when the US troops, under McRaven's command/responsibility, killed the five innocent children. About the real/apparent responsibility which military leaders often preach and claim they have, in the case of Captain Richard Phillips, Maersk Alabama hijacking. If McRaven's SEALs had made a mistake and would have accidentally killed Captain Philips instead of the Somalis on that lifeboat, indeed a hypothetical act exactly equivalent to his own SEALS actually killing those five Afghan innocent Children, would he have shouldered his commanding responsibility by offering to Captain Philips Spouse Andrea, and her two children, the same vociferous apology and two sheep, yes two sheep, as he offered that Afghan father of five killed children, in order TO MEET HIS RESPONSIBILITIES AS A U.S. COMMANDER? It may only be a philosophical, hypothetical concept for debate, but it helps to illustrate my point about what is apparent responsibility ingrained in any military commanders and religious popes and bishops to think that they shoulder responsibility as in the case shown by this video........ th-cam.com/video/HlPscuVbZlM/w-d-xo.html and many other homeless war veterans in the US. th-cam.com/video/4ptUo3v7iu0/w-d-xo.html While I admire Admiral William McRaven as a molded US warrior and a public speaker to fit an important national public role, he must now always consider, that in addition to the verbal apology and the two sheep he gave to that Afghan Father, whose children were killed, when he delivers speeches on his own version of what is leadership and apparent responsibility, and SEAL training, he must regularly and inevitably, mention that his guilt and commanding responsibility was made lighter and eased so kindly and so inexpensively by a great compassionate leader, in the form of a humble, modest father of a family in Kabul, Afghanistan. It was a greaved father's human sensitivity that realized that even a US Commander needs help and emotional buttress and assistance, when he kindly accepted, a simple ritual consisting of a short verbal apology, and the presentation of two sheep, in exchange for the Admiral being responsible for the loss of his five innocent children. That wise Afghan father realized that by that gesture, the US Commander was seeking to regain tranquility and peace in his heart, which at that time, only a wise, kind, understanding Afghan Father could give him, a wise man, without SEAL training, nor in making beds, nor a journalistic university degree full of the of words to be permutated according to the particular audience and occasion. If I were that Afghan father, who lost five children, then in order to shown McRevan that his bartering and responsibility was unfairly unbalanced, I would have said to him, " Admiral, I would settle this case, if you allow me to adopt one of your two sons or your daughter, in exchange for you being responsible for the loss of five of mine!" then, when I look him straight in his eyes and see the contortions on his face, I would have paused a little, then hugged him ( even as he said he is not the hugging type) and say, "Bill, I do understand your feelings and predicament and I accept your verbal apology and your two sheep, as you are now totally helpless in your position as, an artificially mentally and physically molded, pumped-up US Commanding Admiral, and you just cannot do any more than that......... so, please just go, and if you so wish, you may publish this local sheep ritual for your own advancement and promotion". In my estimation, I do believe that with his integrity, Admiral William McRaven will understand, and he will rate that Afghan father as a compassionate leader, a little bit higher than the Admiral himself stands tall, when he delivers speeches in his ceremonial naval white uniform so decorated with colored ribbons, epaulets, golden braided and other colors which military commanders wear when they make public orations on their SEAL training, leadership and responsibilities, on rostrums at universities and funeral rituals, of the dead military boys and those civilians they accidentally kill. th-cam.com/video/TBuIGBCF9jc/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/GJOFM_EcoZU/w-d-xo.html Before going for BinLaden, Admiral William McRaven would have learned a lot if he studied the manner in which the Israeli Mossad agents used to capture Adolf Eichman ------------------- th-cam.com/video/KMUdmd3J7QE/w-d-xo.html In the Military that what matters most, is usually not said. I am confident that as a kind civilian, William McRaven's pensive mind, will understand, that now, he need not fit into the expected act/role of a four-star Admiral, to be seen and heard by the public, wearing a ceremonial conspicuous uniform with a braided headgear to make him look even taller than he is. The quote "it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled" is often attributed to Mark Twain, and since they are just words, any journalist could modify that statement to read:- It is easier to fool us when young, than when older to convince us that we have been fooled
thanks for your care and support Mrs. I really appreciate your efforts and concerns towards us .you can always reach me personal on my official number, I salute once again
I don't imagine that t.u. was very supportive of his aspirations and achievements in the 1970's and the paucity of positive comments from t.u. alumni speaks volumes even today. I doubt his perspective resonates with the majority of present day students. Fortunately today given the real and present danger of todays world, military service is accepted and honorable. Admiral McRaven has helped make it possible in ways that most t.u. graduates that he addressed will never imagine. Gig 'Em Aggies Admiral McRaven, Brad '84
Calling me a Mason, or Witch, or even practicer of Chinese Magic, is actually defamation. I didn't go in as power source virgin: I was power- source of COUSIN Jack Oliver.
Calling me a Mason, or Witch, or even practicer of Chinese Magic, is actually defamation. I didn't go in as power source virgin: I was power- source of COUSIN Jack Oliver.
I have great respect for Admiral William McRaven. I am more than twenty years older than he is, and I lived through WW2, and like him, my humble parents, and my six brothers and sister, had to go through some cruel war experiences. While my brother worked inconspicuously on aircraft for the British Air Force, in absolute silence, my other brothers and I spent our early lives being inconspicuous working in silence dealing with designing and making and installing armaments on British Naval Ships. I worked silently, hidden in surface ships and in the hulls of submarines including repairing secret coding machines and tuning gun automatic control systems and homing torpedoes, while later I worked unseen in designing and making hospital diagnostic and surgical equipment, even for heart operations and a few prosthetic aids for military veterans. I was a concealed consultant to many industries, including solving many problems in Electric Power Stations and about one thousand court cases trying to assess very difficult situations, many involving deaths. Unlike McRaven, what many others and I did in life was always so concealed, confidential, tangible, guaranteed form, normally done in absolute silence where few people knew what I was doing, including when overseeing the loading and unloading of ammunition in a high-density electromagnetic field near a German high powered transmitting station, where I was faced with national security, all done in a silent inconspicuous form. I designed and made all the sensitive instruments I needed for measuring the invisible electromagnetic fields around me.
I wish to talk to Admiral William McRaven as man to man, about the qualities of how we were tacitly and subtly molded to fit a role, as I do believe that, in religions, politics, and the military, what counts most, is normally not said!
It was not the SEAL training that made Admiral William McRaven, as adventurous and as conspicuous as he is, but it was his own wise father, tacitly molding him to learn to balance out, his own guilt with his apparent and real successes and lies or euphemistically, words arranged accordingly, ambiguously, intentionally unfocused, blurry, and misty, and for not punishing him when he deserved it. His father did not make him crawl for hours in sticky mud and icy water for just not folding the sheets of his bed and not polishing his belt buckles and his shoes to a relatively unknown measure. His father closed his eyes when his own son, young Bill, HE VENTURED, HE RISKED, HE BROKE THE LAW, HE LIED AND HE GOT AWAY WITH IT, after entering a high-security ammunition depot,. and that instigated in him to seek more adventures in life, backed by the nation's financial system and a university degree in public journalism which would make him vociferously talented to chose his spoken or written published words, always according to the audience he has before him. He even permutated a selection of words to the Papal Nuncio, that war and killing people is legitimate, verified by the Pope himself in the Holy wars in the period between 1095 and 1271, and also using rituals and verbosity in easing his own conscience for his mistakes, by personally offering a vociferous well-prepared apology and two sheep, a gesture and a ritual, he thought would balance out the very painful grieving of an Afghan father who lost five of his innocent children when the US troops, under McRaven's command/responsibility, killed the five innocent children.
About the real/apparent responsibility which military leaders often preach and claim they have, in the case of Captain Richard Phillips, Maersk Alabama hijacking. If McRaven's SEALs had made a mistake and would have accidentally killed Captain Philips instead of the Somalis on that lifeboat, indeed a hypothetical act exactly equivalent to his own SEALS actually killing those five Afghan innocent Children, would he have shouldered his commanding responsibility by offering to Captain Philips Spouse Andrea, and her two children, the same vociferous apology and two sheep, yes two sheep, as he offered that Afghan father of five killed children, in order TO MEET HIS RESPONSIBILITIES AS A U.S. COMMANDER?
It may only be a philosophical, hypothetical concept for debate, but it helps to illustrate my point about what is apparent responsibility ingrained in any military commanders and religious popes and bishops to think that they shoulder responsibility as in the case shown by this video........ th-cam.com/video/HlPscuVbZlM/w-d-xo.html and many other homeless war veterans in the US. th-cam.com/video/4ptUo3v7iu0/w-d-xo.html
While I admire Admiral William McRaven as a molded US warrior and a public speaker to fit an important national public role, he must now always consider, that in addition to the verbal apology and the two sheep he gave to that Afghan Father, whose children were killed, when he delivers speeches on his own version of what is leadership and apparent responsibility, and SEAL training, he must regularly and inevitably, mention that his guilt and commanding responsibility was made lighter and eased so kindly and so inexpensively by a great compassionate leader, in the form of a humble, modest father of a family in Kabul, Afghanistan. It was a greaved father's human sensitivity that realized that even a US Commander needs help and emotional buttress and assistance, when he kindly accepted, a simple ritual consisting of a short verbal apology, and the presentation of two sheep, in exchange for the Admiral being responsible for the loss of his five innocent children. That wise Afghan father realized that by that gesture, the US Commander was seeking to regain tranquility and peace in his heart, which at that time, only a wise, kind, understanding Afghan Father could give him, a wise man, without SEAL training, nor in making beds, nor a journalistic university degree full of the of words to be permutated according to the particular audience and occasion.
If I were that Afghan father, who lost five children, then in order to shown McRevan that his bartering and responsibility was unfairly unbalanced, I would have said to him, " Admiral, I would settle this case, if you allow me to adopt one of your two sons or your daughter, in exchange for you being responsible for the loss of five of mine!" then, when I look him straight in his eyes and see the contortions on his face, I would have paused a little, then hugged him ( even as he said he is not the hugging type) and say, "Bill, I do understand your feelings and predicament and I accept your verbal apology and your two sheep, as you are now totally helpless in your position as, an artificially mentally and physically molded, pumped-up US Commanding Admiral, and you just cannot do any more than that......... so, please just go, and if you so wish, you may publish this local sheep ritual for your own advancement and promotion".
In my estimation, I do believe that with his integrity, Admiral William McRaven will understand, and he will rate that Afghan father as a compassionate leader, a little bit higher than the Admiral himself stands tall, when he delivers speeches in his ceremonial naval white uniform so decorated with colored ribbons, epaulets, golden braided and other colors which military commanders wear when they make public orations on their SEAL training, leadership and responsibilities, on rostrums at universities and funeral rituals, of the dead military boys and those civilians they accidentally kill.
th-cam.com/video/TBuIGBCF9jc/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/GJOFM_EcoZU/w-d-xo.html
Before going for BinLaden, Admiral William McRaven would have learned a lot if he studied the manner in which the Israeli Mossad agents used to capture Adolf Eichman ------------------- th-cam.com/video/KMUdmd3J7QE/w-d-xo.html
In the Military that what matters most, is usually not said. I am confident that as a kind civilian, William McRaven's pensive mind, will understand, that now, he need not fit into the expected act/role of a four-star Admiral, to be seen and heard by the public, wearing a ceremonial conspicuous uniform with a braided headgear to make him look even taller than he is.
The quote "it's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled" is often attributed to Mark Twain, and since they are just words, any journalist could modify that statement to read:-
It is easier to fool us when young, than when older to convince us that we have been fooled
Amazing person, he gives so much strength in his stories and speeches
I admire this man so much to excel as a leader
thanks for your care and support Mrs. I really appreciate your efforts and concerns towards us .you can always reach me personal on my official number, I salute once again
I don't imagine that t.u. was very supportive of his aspirations and achievements in the 1970's and the paucity of positive comments from t.u. alumni speaks volumes even today. I doubt his perspective resonates with the majority of present day students. Fortunately today given the real and present danger of todays world, military service is accepted and honorable. Admiral McRaven has helped make it possible in ways that most t.u. graduates that he addressed will never imagine. Gig 'Em Aggies Admiral McRaven, Brad '84
This 'ol sailor is the reason I joined. Thank you for believing in me sir, it meant the world to me, helped stoke that fire in my heart.
Niche Job
Good Job
True the world was worth something then
Sir! We need you up top, sir!
You'd make a great President.
Whens it gonna happen?
class act
Calling me a Mason, or Witch, or even practicer of Chinese Magic, is actually defamation.
I didn't go in as power source virgin: I was power- source of COUSIN Jack Oliver.
Calling me a Mason, or Witch, or even practicer of Chinese Magic, is actually defamation.
I didn't go in as power source virgin: I was power- source of COUSIN Jack Oliver.