Jeff Dorwart wrote in message ...

I am in the military and have been for 20+ years.

Sympathy or a medal? I don't have either one.

It took me until this year to finally save enough
money to purchase my first glass ship.

It took me more than 35 years to come to the point that I thought I
could afford a 1-26. Go cry to someone else.

I am sorry you have chosen to leave the sport
although I am sure you have chosen wisely as it does
not seem to suit you.

Soaring suits me, it's the pilots attitudes that I can't stand.

I have, up till this point sat back and politely
ignored your posts that cast dispersions on others
for not leaving the soaring.

Then I suggest you have some eighth grader show you how to set up the
kill file.

I am not casting dispersion on those that do not leave, but do take
offense on attitudes of elitism and superiority where they surface.
Soaring is basically a cluster of rich old conservatives, and they
brought their rich old conservative ideas and attitudes toward others
with them. The idea of being satisfied with what one has is totally
alien, lusting uselessly after the latest and greatest, bankrupt
yourself for something supposedly better is what you're supposed to
do. Kneel slavishly to those that have their "diamonds", which is
exactly parallel to saluting the post at Great Lakes Naval training
center that wears an ensigns hat. Both are useless gestures. Get the
main idea back on having fun and not gathering scalps for the mantle
and it might be fun. Quit trying to make it look affordable for
anyone that wants to try, it isn't. Realize that there are a lot of
good, hardworking wage earners out there that might like to try it,
but for financial reasons, can't. It's not, as tom seim has called
me, quitter, it's putting soaring where it belongs, an expensive
diversion, and getting back to life. It's realizing that living for
only one activity that may or may not be possible on any given day is
wasting a life and deciding that if anything has to be sacrificed,
soaring had to be it. It's a ****ing hobby, I don't have to do it.

Set your killfile.