Havok Journal and the sketchy Gourleys
Our friends at Havok Journal write a very long article about Justin and Shawn Gourley who run Military with PTSD that annoying organization that sends out those signs about being courteous with your fireworks so you don’t scare the veterans.
The thing we dislike most about the signs is that they are transparent attempts at self-aggrandizement. “If you don’t constantly remind everyone around you that you’re a veteran, were you ever really a veteran at all?” Additionally, the signs reinforce negative stereotypes about veterans, they further alienate veterans from the American populace, and they promote a victim mentality in veterans. These signs are the veteran community’s equivalent of social justice “safe spaces,” you know, the ones that we veterans are usually so quick to rail against.
The worst part about these signs is, they work.
When I say “they work,” I mean it in the sense of why people really put out the signs. The signs work to remind everyone who drives by that there is a veteran in the home, they reinforce a “victimhood” mindset, and they’re useful in bringing sympathy to the sign’s owner. They’re useless for just about anything else.
The article goes into detail that I attempted in my own research of the Gourleys, but Havok Journal actually read their book, when I only skimmed the parts that I could get for free.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
And frankly, if a SCHOOL can give you teh PTSD, you’re probably a weak little pussy to begin with, Gourley.
I say fuck these signs. Have a fireworks display that will make the neighbors think that you are invading a small country. If they start to bother me I have this wonderful invention called noise canceling headphones.
Word.
But to be a “real” combat vet, you have to say it eight or nine times a day.
How do you know when there is a combat veteran in the room at a party?……
Just wait a minute, they will tell you.
I shoot fireworks at the signs
Get some!
They will get my fireworks when they pry them from what is left of my explosive mangled hands.
Bring all your fireworks to my house. I’ll buy the beer. Let’s party!
Some good, hard work done over at The Havok Journal – broke it off in the Gourley’s collective asses.
Both of the Gourley’s need a cunt punt… and one of their signs shoved up their asses!
You know, I’ve never confessed this to anyone but I suffer PTSD from being under General Order No. 1 for so long.
Can I put a sign that says “GO#1 Vet Lives Here – Please be courteous with beer by bringing yours over to my house. K thanks bye?”
*Heading to local sign shop*
OMG….and the porn too!
Yeah, cause nobody had porn in theater.??
And BACOn, bring BACONNNNNNNNNNN!
Whether or not I’m courteous to someone in my neighborhood regardless of who they are or were is largely dependent on the neighbor. If you’re a good neighbor and I know something about you and I know what might be a nuisance to you, I’ll be a good neighbor as well and avoid creating that nuisance.
If you’re a fuckstick of a neighbor and I know what bothers you, I can guarantee I’ll do that every day I can for as long as the law allows.
Sign or no fucking sign.
That sounds like me as well.
Add me to the group.
^^^ditto^^^
Hey. I have a question. Are these signs staked all over military posts and bases worldwide? I’m thinking of all of the active duty personnel who were in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. What about them? Where’s their boom and bang protection?
They’re posted inside the impact areas on really small cardboard placards….
Ask me how many times the 105’s went off right across the hesco wall from me while I had my head in a freakin engine, with no warning. Or when the 155 would go off in the middle of the night and lift me up off of my bunk. Probably the most memorable time was when some unit in the valley called for a show of force and an F-18 Super Hornet did a low screaming pass right over the roof of my Hooch in the afternoon. I was working night shift at the time. Good times. No lasting effects other than saying “huh?” way too frequently.
WHat’d you say GDC? Huh? They moved a battery of big ass guns near our perimeter in VN. We didn’t know it. We found out for the first time at about 0300 when they fired what must have been a battery fire for effect with tubes low right over our position. First reaction was that it was in-coming. Pee’d on myself. I need a dog just think about it.
Well, I have a Marine Arty Capt buddy and he told me a few years ago that they couldn’t fire during rush hours at Camp Lejeune because of the PTSD. Was in the RV park for several weeks and never heard fire during those hours but a lot before and after.
FWIW, they are useful as backers for targets.
Maybe borrow one for an overnight Shutzenfest and return it before dawn?
I tend to not like yard signs in general. The only exception is the one in the old Gary Larson cartoon showing a guy peeking around a tree.
The sign in the yard said, “Beware of Doug.”
I maybe crazy but every time I hear a BOOM or shots whizzing by
I flinch at first then
I get pissed off
I then get a hard on
BHWHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Growing up, we had a neighbor down the street who would put on a fireworks show for the kids on our block every Fourth of July. He was a Vietnam veteran with a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. Somehow, he managed to deal with the fireworks.
“Disbarred Attorney Lives Here. Please Be Courteous With Sheetrock Screws And Coconuts.”
No rustling the bushes!
Not every vet has true combat PTSD also. They make it sound like every veteran has it.
If you’re gunna set off fireworks, please make
’em good enough to give me a freedom boner.
Havok ripped the Gourley’s a new asshole. I just wish they would get audited like they recommended and the VA would review his bullshit.
It’s simple if you ask me. If someone wasnt where they said they were its impossible for them to have witnessed what they said triggered them.
When people tell me that they feel sorry for me, I get real angry, kinda like Walter White here….
‘Bout time I replace the 3′ X 2’ Romney sign at the gate with one that reads:
COMBAT VETERAN LIVES HERE
Please Be Courteous and At The Same Time Do Yourself A BIG Favor…..Just Keep On Walking By With Your BLM Signs In Hand. You DON’T Want To Deal With My Fireworks!