@sethharpesq Young navy vet told me once that they hid their drugs around the sensitive nuclear equipment because the drug sniffing dogs weren't allowed near.
The latest tranche of Cormac McCarthy papers acquired by the Wittliff contains the following note in Cormac’s hand:
“The moral clarity of the English speaking people has been a thousand year perfecting. It is a pointless task to imagine such a strength taking markedly less time than this in some other culture. The notion that we are all as one is nonsense.”
This is the story of how I nearly lost everything to activist Swedish Social Services.
In 2017, my family and I were living in Sweden.
I had lived there before as a single man. We thought it was the safe, stable, open society everyone in the West keeps praising.
What happened instead nearly destroyed us.
I am a former Marine with a couple combat deployments to Afghanistan (this detail matters) and was part of Marine Corps Forces European Command in Germany. I worked for Amazon Web Services with a Nordic focus, staged in Stockholm
I managed teams across Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland.
We lived in the countryside, paid taxes, followed every rule. We even insisted on speaking the local language.
We tried to be the ideal expat family.