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![johnkonrad Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::5900252.png) John Ʌ Konrad V [@johnkonrad](/creator/twitter/johnkonrad) on x 73.7K followers
Created: 2025-07-20 03:07:31 UTC

True. And I respect the hell out of my wife who, in 2003, spent days drifting in a suspected minefield aboard a ship packed with explosives on Navy orders. 

But she won’t even stand at veterans events… because so many veterans have told her “the Merchant Marine isn’t a real service.”


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