Wonder if Larry was in the same platoon as Walter Sobchak

One of my favorite stupid things to do is read the Letters to the Editor section of my hometown newspaper. They're often hilarious, frightening, atrociously written and sometimes all three which makes for a very entertaining read.

Take this one by Larry Wajda for example. He starts out strong. Seriously, that first paragraph is the start of a movie right there but ol'Larry ain't about the prose. And he didn't got to the 'Nam only to be told 40 years later to wear his seatbelt and smoke outside.

Too many choices being taken away

By Larry Wajda
Ord

Published: Sunday, July 12, 2009 12:24 AM CDT

July 4, 1968, did not exist for me. I crossed the International Dateline at exactly midnight. I was on my way back from Vietnam, where I thought I was fighting to preserve the freedoms and rights of choice of the American people.

However, I now find that other people have the right to order me and my friends to stay outside, in what could be a 20 to 40 mile an hour subzero blizzard, if we want to go to a bar to celebrate New Year's Eve. Also these same people have the right to order me to wear a seat belt even if I drive across the street.

How many more of my rights of choice are they going to take away before I die.

I do love though how the last line in Larry's letter isn't a question but a statement. Nobody is gonna tell Larry to use a question mark.