Posted by:
cludgie
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Date: October 30, 2014 10:54AM
Especially in the military. I was entertaining a co-worker with stories about how rough it was in the past for a garment wearer. He is active LDS and active duty Navy. I was telling him about my mission and the challenge of wearing one-piece garments on my mission and in the military.
Told him how I had to take off my outer shirt in the military all the time in the summer in order to drive tent stakes and set up antenna masts. Although we had green and olive-dyed garments, you still coudn't take off your shirts because the world would see your stitched-in Masonic marks. Well, guess what? Today's military garment has the marks silk-screened ON THE INSIDE, and you can take off your shirt anytime you want. I mean, ain't science something? Goddammit, How is it I had to go for more than a decade first in a one-piece union suit, and then two piece with marks produced like button holes, always having to wear an extra fatigue shirt over my garments?
Stupid, stupid cult.
(I was in Italy on my mission and most of us wore the old uncomfortable nylon ones because we had to wash by hand and they were easier to wash and dry. Told him about the time one of our elders got hit by a car and slid along the pavement, and when the hospital cut his clothes away to treat him, his nylon garment had melted into his wool suit.)