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Sorry, Iit is pretty quiet today for Military news…
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Here is another excerpt from my upcoming book, Signs of Hope for the Military: In and Out of the trenches of Life.
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Iriwaba Means Come here
When I was in Korea for a while, I had time to go for walks in the Village of Uigongbo, Korea. It was a broken down village that didn’t seem to have any industry supporting itself.
I soon found out that the industry was prostitution. There were women of all ages waving at me and yelling “Iriwaba,”
Iriwaba means “Come here!” These women were all trying to entice you to come into their little parlor and have sex with them for a fee. I was such a naïve young man I didn’t respond for the first few trips there. Then one night when the guys decided I needed to get drunk and party, I ended up waking up from a stupor and saw an elderly lady on top of me buck naked, and I was too. She was having sex with me, and I didn’t even know it! As my eyes cleared, I saw that she was eating an apple like I was one of the people she would please while on a break!
I was told she was a “mommason” A mommason, is a boss of the prostitutes, and I was delegated to have sex with the old pro who thought she needed an apple while she was performing her act on me.
I ask her the fee. She said one of the guys paid it and the going rate was a carton of cigarettes. I said “What, a carton of cigarettes?” She said that one carton of cigarettes, which was worth $2.00, would get her family enough food for a week. The cartons were a hot commodity in the “Black Market.”
So, for a $2.00 (over there in 1961) carton of cigarettes you could find pleasure.
I thought this could be fun to spend a couple of dollars and get laid. So, another time I went out into the village, and a mommason beckoned me to come into her shack. I thought she was the one providing the services, but she walked me into her bedroom and lying on the bed naked was a little girl that couldn’t have been more than twelve years old. She looked frightened, and didn’t want to look at me.
I knew then that this was probably her first time. I was ready to punch the mommason in the nose, and left quickly.
Later I learned having so much sex in that village could be deadly. One of the soldiers, who bragged about being with a woman every night, caught some serious infection in his gentiles and eventually had to have them cut off to save his life. The vision cured me of any extra trips to the village for pleasure.
Now you are asking me, why on earth did you share this with me?
The experiences I had in Korea changed my life. Some of the experiences I am not proud of, but I learned so much on the thirteen months I was stationed there. This particular lesson I learned is that something may look enticing, and could give you pleasure, but it also could be something that is very serious and could lead to a “dead end.”
If you are now stationed in a foreign country, and have open access to pleasures you are having a hard time avoiding, think about this story. Think about the soldier who lost his chance to have any children, just because he thought what he was doing felt good.
We all want our pleasures in this world, but we need to carefully check to see if they can be harmful or even dangerous for us. We need to know if they are things that God will be OK with.
IWILL
This chapter would be a great time to talk about thinking drugs and alcohol are a pleasure we can’t seem to stop, but I have separate chapters for each of those. There are so many, so called pleasures, we need to take measures to identify them and see how they may or may not fit into our world. We can find many pleasures that are not harmful, and actually enrich our lives.
Think about this
Isn’t it interesting that sometimes packages look great on the outside until we open them up?
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Checking in on you…How are you doing? Are you struggling?
FEAR NOT!
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If you are battling mentally, because of your love for others, but it isn’t working, GET HELP!!
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Remember:
You are never alone.
You are never forsaken.
You are never unloved.
And above all…never, ever, give up!
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