Diamond Veterans Exclusive Home for the Elderly, in the hallway outside the event hall.

Martin helped Jeff put on the baseball cap, and then swept the soft brush on Jeff's cheek a few times, making sure that the face looked hard and hard, and then looked at his work with satisfaction:

"It looks like the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs should ask you to be the official spokesperson for U.S. veterans, it's tough."

Jeff in front of him, his strong body propped up the small camouflage T-shirt that Tommy deliberately bought until it almost cracked, and the whole person was full of aggression and a kind of fierce momentum that no one should enter.

"Martin, are you sure...... Is this a good script to say to the elderly? There were more swear words in it than I've said in over thirty years. Jeff whispered to Martin as he moved his arms cuffed tightly.

Martin whispered, "Shut up! Jeff, don't question me! All you have to do is read the speech to the dozens of World War II veterans with more swear words than any block, and don't let it down, because that's ...... That's what I stayed up late last night to write. ”

Boss Tommy worked so hard to write the speech, and finally willing to give up the title of author to himself, Martin didn't think why Tommy would make this decision, but he didn't think it was a bad thing, after all, he was a campaign manager, and he always needed to come up with something bluffing to prove that he didn't just go to Costco to steal Trojan.

"I've read it many times, but every time I still get moved, the emotion in this manuscript is almost overflowing, it's so touching, so Martin, my father actually died on the battlefield, right? If you haven't experienced it yourself, you won't ......," Jeff said of Martin's speech for him, with an admiring look on his face.

"I've explained many times that my father didn't join the army and died on the battlefield, but because he ...... while driving" Martin stared at Jeff unhappily, interrupting the other man's teasing.

Jeff had been touting him since the first time he watched it, so Martin couldn't get the pleasure anymore, and he now needed the shock of the other listeners to satisfy his vanity.

Jeff looked at Martin with a sincere gaze: "What happened to him while driving?" ”

"Do you have to be so curious?" Martin glared at Jeff with disgust: "Can't you give me some privacy?" ”

"We are friends, I can talk to Zach and Allen about everything, Alan also told me and Zack his most important secret, he once wanted to figure out what the mouth feels like and which one feels better, so he went to the Florida zoo and quietly smeared something on the club for goats, giraffes, zebras, etc to lick ......"

"Stop! Stop! Martin's eyes narrowed: "Dude, living with the three of you for three days is more eye-opening than my thirty years in the community!" Shit…… Going to the zoo for free? How the hell did Florida raise the three of you big smarts! ”

"If this secret is not enough to exchange your father's experience, I can still say my most important secret, I ......"

"I can't listen to it anymore, I don't want to listen to it, I'm a shameless!" Martin stopped Jeff from continuing, and he reluctantly lowered his voice and said, "OK, I'll tell you, you have to keep it a secret." ”

"Of course." Jeff assured with a serious face.

Martin hesitated for a moment and lowered his voice: "He once got high while driving, and was stopped by the police while driving, and the other party was still a female mounted policeman...... So my father gave the other party some other things in his face in addition to his driver's license, and then went to prison on vacation on suspicion of molesting a police officer in public, humiliating a police officer, assaulting a police officer, and harassing a police officer. ”

"I ...... Wow, I ...... I would say that I actually sometimes get stressed out, and I deliberately stay in the car until late at night, and occasionally do that kind of thing, but it seems to be ...... It seems impossible to spray that far. Jeff asked, his eyes narrowed, a little suspicious.

"That's a racial gift, otherwise what do you think that bastard gave me a dozen half-siblings." Martin said, "Is it okay to keep reading the speech and stop talking to me about my father?" ”

After a while, Tommy and the person in charge of the Diamond Veterans Exclusive Nursing Home pushed open the door of the activity hall and walked out, the person in charge was a middle-aged man in his forties, under Tommy's introduction, he shook hands with Jeff, and smiled perfunctorily: "For the sake of your donation of some food to this hospital, you have about thirty minutes, Mr. LaVine." ”

Jeff looked at Tommy, and Tommy nodded at him: "Go ahead, just read the manuscript to those veterans generously, you don't need to take off the manuscript." ”

"I will." Jeff nodded earnestly, took a few deep breaths, and waited for Martin to check his makeup again, then held the speech, turned around and pushed open the door of the event hall and strode towards the podium.

"There have been politicians who have come to this kind of place to ask for support, but almost every one of them can give speeches without script, but unfortunately, even if they are so fluent that they don't take it off completely, they can hardly raise any money, because the veterans here don't understand politics and don't care about politics, which is useless." The person in charge smiled at Tommy.

He is not optimistic about politicians coming here to raise funds, it is not that no one has come before, but the effect is very poor, this time Jeff Lavine, in his opinion, is even worse than those politicians, and even the speech needs to be read by the script, it is simply waiting to stand on the stage, helpless to be ridiculed and humiliated by those veterans who do not know what politeness is.

Tommy leaned against the door frame, looked at Jeff who walked up to the rostrum and stood firmly, and said with a smile: "Of course the veterans don't understand politics, otherwise they would have rebelled and occupied the White House a long time ago, instead of waiting for Jeff's appearance today." ”

The activity hall of the old people's home is usually a place for the veterans to move freely, for them to chat here, do some simple exercises, watch TV, listen to the radio, etc., but now, the rostrum is full of seats, about forty or fifty veterans who have experienced World War II sit under the stage, most of them are gray-haired, senile, nearly half of their bodies are disabled, and need wheelchairs or other tools to assist, several nurses stand against the wall at this time, observing the physical condition of the old people, and signaling the veterans to keep quiet.

But the veterans obviously didn't give face to the nurses, and they weren't ready to respect Jeff, who was standing on the stage at this time, and shouted and scolded loudly in the audience:

"Hey! Took the money again and then let us waste an hour or two sitting here listening to the of the politicians? Want us to vote for him, or donate money for him to get a prostitute to get laid? ”

"Ho~ Die! I'd rather give the fucking money to Germany to support their resurrection*** than to these damn politicians! ”

"*** If you're still alive, at least let Americans know what we've done for the world! Now everyone treats us like waste! ”

"Go home, boy! Don't expect us to listen to your nonsense! ”

Jeff stood on stage, observing the angry veterans who had been forced to sacrifice their usual free time to listen to his fundraising speech because of his appearance.

Frankly speaking, he was a little nervous, although Martin had rehearsed with him a few times, but when it really began, looking at the audience who were distrustful, ridiculed, disdainful, etc., Jeff still felt a little uncomfortable, fortunately, Martin said that if you feel nervous, take a deep breath, Jeff tried to recall Stallone's fearless performance in the movie, and kept taking deep breaths to let his nervousness slowly fade, and finally, in the laughter and ridicule of everyone, spread out the speech that he had read many times, Say the first sentence into the microphone:

"U.S. Army Florida National Guard Private Jeff LaVine, I've seen you."

As these words spoke, the veterans below actually slowly stopped humiliating, and although their expressions were still not good, the hall was at least quiet.

In the past, every time there was an election, there would be a lot of politicians to seek the support of their veteran groups, and those politicians who came to canvass often had service experience, but every time those bastards opened their mouths to introduce themselves, they said various officer positions, they thought that mentioning their positions in the army could make these old guys feel close, in fact, as long as the other party revealed the number and position of the army, everyone knew that they had not been on the battlefield at all, but gilded in the rear of the army.

Have you ever seen an officer who retired from military service and was reduced to living in such a terrible old people's home waiting to die? It's all old and ordinary soldiers.

I came here to show off my military rank and official position, thinking that these veterans who had broken their legs for the country stood up and saluted him and said hello, sir?

So those people often turn out to be counterproductive.

But now this young big white man in front of him introduced himself as just a senior soldier in the U.S. Army, exactly the same as most of the old people here when they were in service, and this sentence shows that this guy named Jeff LaVine is not the son of a high-ranking official from the military academy, just an ordinary person.

It also made the veterans want to hear what the senior soldier could say, they had mocked politicians with the rank of captain, colonel, etc., but they had not yet met a guy who had retired from the rank of senior soldier to come here to give a speech and raise money.

"The army didn't teach me how to speak, so my campaign manager helped me find a lot of speeches used by politicians in fundraising before for me to plagiarize, and when I saw the thick stack of scripts, I was eye-opening, those girls who haven't fought before, the oral work is really fucking good, and now I understand, why did my Lao Tzu be fascinated on the battlefield in Vietnam and participate in Operation Viper, he must have been mouthed by those politicians once, fuck you politicians, and only know how to hide in the rear."

These rude words made many veterans laugh out loud, it is the norm for soldiers to scold politicians, which soldier has not scolded those politicians who are greedy for life and afraid of death, only know how to chatter in the rear, and dare not take a step forward on the battlefield?

Jeff stared at the speeches and continued: "After I read those speeches, there was no plagiarism, not because I thought I was more talented, but because I was a senior soldier who graduated from high school, and I couldn't understand those, what is called social group division, what is called open diplomacy, open diplomacy, my understanding is that the three dogs in my family were on the street, messing around in full view, and finally outside!" Speak of open-air field warfare as philosophy, fuck you politicians. ”

The veterans once again let out all kinds of vulgar laughter, and with just a few words, the veterans present believed that this senior soldier was not disguised, and since leaving the army, except for veterans of the same status, no one else would tell them such vulgar and pure jokes.

"I decided to write my own speech, so don't worry about it being too long, I'm definitely not going to say something like 'I'm going to make a long story short enough to give everyone here time to fill out a check to support me' that countless politicians think are humorous, I know all politicians use this joke to start their speeches, but I just don't know what's funny about it?"

"And those guys won't talk short, they have to talk for an hour or two every time, fuck you, an hour or two, why don't he go home and lick his wife, if he can lick his wife for two hours, I guarantee that his wife will definitely love him more, but if you talk bullshit for an hour or two, it's impossible for people here to fall in love with him."

"The one- or two-hour speech summed up with nothing more than a long story at the beginning, then a long story short, then a dream and a great ambition, and finally a sentence God bless America."

"Actually, it can be summed up in one sentence, give me your money and ballots, I'm going to Washington! A politician in a thousand-dollar suit and a diamond watch worth tens of thousands of dollars fooled a bunch of poor people who couldn't even afford a bottle of whiskey to pay him for a ticket to Washington, damn it, I'd rather buy a ticket to your house myself, * your wife who was alone in the empty room because you went to Washington. ”

"Actually, this is also a bit biased, I have received the news, only the ticket money should be unlikely to win, but if you are willing to donate 500,000 to those politicians, you can definitely * their wives, add 200,000 more, and at the same time * his wife's sister, I see that some people become excited, calm, sir, if you really donate 500,000 to that politician for them, I guarantee that it will be the most terrifying experience in your life."

Once again, the audience burst into laughter, and even whistles and applause.

However, the person in charge of the old people's home, who was listening to Jeff's speech at the door of the corridor, frowned at the moment, and he looked at Tommy, who communicated with him and donated some food in exchange for Jeff's speech for half an hour:

"Are you sure he's here to give a fundraising speech? Instead of holding a ruffian vulgar talk show tour? Those words are so ugly. ”

"Good speeches are humorous and make people laugh out loud." Tommy said solemnly, "You want these veterans to sit in the audience and listen to Jeff talk about the two hours of "Meditations"? Believe me, that thing will have at least half of the veterans trying to find a gun to smash Jeff's head in ten minutes. ”

"So, do you think a good speech is to tell the audience below a sexually explicit and vulgar joke, donating half a million to * the wives of those politicians?" The person in charge said to Tommy dissatisfiedly, "I should really look at the manuscript you prepared before agreeing." ”

Tommy took out a cigarette and lit it, and then said: "This is not a joke, I have a friend named Stephen, he told me personally, he and his family's foundation donates about five million to the Democratic Party every year to support various Democratic congressmen, he called this money prostitution, he is not yet thirty years old this year, and he has slept with seventeen young and beautiful wives or girlfriends of congressmen who want him to make additional donations, and he once donated 200,000 yuan to a state congressman in California, In order to express their gratitude, the wife and sister of the congressman specially accompanied him to chat all night about democracy and freedom. ”

"You're kidding! That's impossible! The person in charge said affirmatively, but the expression on his face was full of eagerness.

While Tommy and the person in charge were discussing the topic of donating money to have the right to sleep with the wife of the congressional candidate, Jeff was raising his voice on the podium:

"I want to say, fuck you long story short, fuck your great ambitions, fuck you God bless America! It's all shit! I don't understand how much more these self-righteous politicians are? What kind of people do they think they are talking to? ”

"No one knows how to make a long story short better than the group in front of them! Because their careers will always be a 'Yes Sir!' ’”

"No one knows great ambitions better than the group in front of them! Because their careers are the best expression of great ambitions! ”

"Fuck you, do you need those politicians to tell us? I'd rather shoot myself in the head than hear those ducks croak in my ears! ”

"When the country needs us soldiers, the newspapers call us the strongest cornerstone of the country, and when we bring peace, the newspapers call us the tools of the scrapped state as numbness, indifference, only death and drunkards waiting for death, poisonous insects...... I don't care about you! ”

"It's these veterans who are called drunkards, poisonous insects, and waiting for death, decades ago who saved those who can now humiliate them at will from being stuffed into the incinerator, and the veterans guarded the peace of this world with their blood and lives! Let those displaced refugees from all countries come here to live, because of the veterans, they were not fucking killed by *** or Stalin or even Churchill, and then, the descendants of those survivors, now start to humiliate the great guardian of this country as fucking drunkards, poisonous bugs, executioners, murderers, fucking social security hazards, and stumbling blocks on the way to fucking peace! ”

"Fuck you! Without these veterans, their corpses would have been rotted to ashes, and they wouldn't even be qualified to be a stumbling block for the homeless! ”

All the veterans shouted with these words, in the hearts of these scarred veterans, it was they who changed the world and brought peace, but the reality is that they are now, humiliated, ridiculed, and even going to the street to buy a bottle of wine have to be interrogated by the police, as if they are not wounded soldiers who fought for the United States, but Soviet soldiers trapped in the United States, with no respect, no status, nothing but scars.

"Survivors who have enjoyed peace, talk before you, boasting that they have seen the world, that they have seen the world, that they have insight into the international situation, that each one seems to know everything, that they can change the world and make this country better, and that we, in their mouths, are stupid people who know nothing but the cheapest brand of beer, the cheapest poison*."

"Fuck you! Breeds! We have seen the world, we have gone to Italy, withstood artillery fire and super storms, and forced a landing in Sicily! We went to France to cover the Allies and stormed Omaha Beach with a destroyer at the risk of being sunk! We went to Asia and flew a plane to turn Tokyo into flames in order to defeat Japan! ”

"The world we see is countless times more stupid* than those who talk eloquently at this moment! We bring peace! And then what? What do we get? ”

"A tattered body full of scars! A ridiculously low pension! A group of tool people abandoned by society and the times! ”

Jeff's eyes were already red, he choked up and continued, "I ...... Tell you, what you have gained, and you have also received the medical benefits with the highest mortality rate of surgery! If I don't understand, I can say it more clearly...... I don't care about you! I can't go on anymore! ”

"Even if you do surgery in a general hospital, only one out of a hundred people can die unexpectedly on the operating table, and in a hospital under the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, four and a half out of a hundred veterans will not be able to get off the operating table alive! F*ck！ ”

"Why is this happening? Because doctors with higher surgical skills and more advanced medical tools require more money, the politicians in Washington are reluctant to allocate funds for our obsolete tools, because they feel that you old guys who can scare children crying when you walk on the street are still alive, and they are all a gift! ”

"Fuck you!"

"We were ugly, with broken hands, amputated legs, and scars on our faces that were even more horrible than Freddie! Are we ugly? Of course! But our souls are so pure! ”

"And those politicians, every one of them seems to be personable, in fact, the dirtiest sewer rats in Miami excrete the poop, none of which have their souls dirty!"

"Ugly-looking veterans, should they be damned? I don't care about you! I'm going to keep you alive! ”

As Jeff finished saying this, as long as it wasn't a waste person paralyzed in a wheelchair, they all stood up and shouted excitedly in response to Jeff's words!

Sure enough, only the real low-level soldiers know what happened to their veterans! This lad named Jeff LaVine is their own man! That's it! They have been loyal to their country, but now the U.S. Congress is refusing to allocate funds to improve their medical environment!

"I'm a fool, if not a fool, who the would want to join the army to defend this country, of course I'm a fool, and so are you." Jeff exhaled slowly, looked at the excited veterans in the audience with a serious expression, and waited for the veterans to cheer, roar, etc., before continuing:

"Jeff, you're a fool, you can't go to the election. The neighbors will say that, the newspapers will say this, my competitors will say this, they laugh at me, Jeff this fool doesn't understand anything, it's a joke for him to go to the election, go home, now America doesn't need you to stand up, you'd better go home and keep fixing those damn dirty pipes! You are a fool, a fool who does not understand politics, does not understand the situation, does not understand the economy, does not understand change, does not understand the election ......"

"Fuck you! Fools really don't understand anything, but they know how to love this country! Jeff suddenly yelled so hard that he broke the sound!

The person in charge saw that the forty or fifty old men in the audience seemed to be in some kind of frenzy, and he didn't care about chatting with Tommy, so he quickly walked in and beckoned his nurses to comfort some of the old guys who seemed to be too excited, lest they die suddenly on the spot because of their emotional ups and downs and their hearts were overwhelmed.

This is a scene that has never been seen in this old people's home before, and a retired senior soldier actually has such a strong incitement motive? Make it look as if these veterans are ready to get up and return to the battlefield at any moment?

When the person in charge didn't understand why the veterans were so excited, Jeff looked at Martin behind everyone, Martin kept making relaxing movements to him, signaling him to slow down his tone, Jeff lowered his voice obediently, and said calmly according to the state of the previous drill: "This is what my father said, he is also a fool, a fool named Halle Lavin, who served in the 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division of the United States Army, nicknamed the Can Opener, because as long as he is present, he can make his comrades grin happily, It's like a can being opened one by one. ”

"He was the first batch of participants in the Vietnam War, that was actually his second time in the army, when he joined the army for the first time at the age of eighteen, he was brushed off in the test, his IQ was not enough, the army said we don't need fools, you go home, and then he obediently went home to marry a wife and have children, until the outbreak of the Vietnam War, the conscripts came to the door again, and he said to him, who has become an excellent carpenter, now the country needs you as a fool to join the army."

"My father didn't refuse, I was a little kid then, but I will always remember my mother crying and asking him why those bastards had so viciously humiliated him when his father first joined the army that he was a fool and unworthy of joining the army, why did he still go to serve now! Why? ”

"My dad told her that he might really be a fool, that he wasn't serving those conscripted bastards, that he was for the country, and that this country needed fools to stand up."

Unfortunately, he did not make it to the end of the war and died in Vietnam...... I'm ......" Jeff said this, choking up a little again, and he paused.

Among the veterans in the audience, there was a black veteran in a wheelchair with a urine bag hanging next to him, and shouted: "Son, it is the heroes who die in battle!" Look at us, it's just garbage that is alive! You should be happy! You should be happy! Your father is a hero, he doesn't need to see the damn situation now! ”

"Thank you, thank you, let me ...... Let me finish reading this speech...... My father...... I missed a lot of important moments in my life, the first time I read an adult magazine, the first time I jerked off, the first time I wrote a letter to the girl I loved, my bird grew its first hair, my first time in love, I got married, my first son was born, my first daughter was born......" Jeff paused for a moment before continuing:

"He was also absent from the first important decision in my life, that year, I was an adult, and for the first time there was a fork in the road of my life, two paths, one was to join the army and the other was to continue studying, I don't know which path is the right way in life, because I am a fool."

"In the end, I made the same choice as my father, I know that he chose the path of military service back then, and the end was to die in battle, but I don't regret continuing to follow the path he chose, because I love this beautiful country as much as he does."

"Now, he will continue to miss the second important choice in my life, and my life path has once again diverged in two paths, one is to go to the election, go to Washington to kill those politicians, fight for the veterans to get their rightful rights, better medical care, higher benefits, more positive attention."

"The other way, quit and go home, continue to be a silent fool, burrow into all kinds of dirty pipes every day and be accompanied by rats, turn a blind eye to the injustices of those veterans, and spend the rest of your life like a dumb person."

There was no need for Jeff to say anything else, the veterans at the scene were already led by several veterans, shouting in unison: "Run!" Jeff! Let's stay alive! Run! Jeff! Let's stay alive! Run! Jeff! Let's stay alive! ”

Martin turned his head to look at Tommy, who was leaning against the door frame and dozing off with a cigarette in his mouth, and then at the photographer who had been shocked to the point of dislocating his jaw, and asked the photographer in some disbelief: "A collection of expletives can win voter support?" If that's the case, why don't candidates hire us to write speeches for them during the presidential election? ”

"Words are really contagious, and if I hadn't known that Jeff was a fool who didn't understand anything, I would have been willing to pay for him." The photographer came back to his senses and said to Martin.

When the veterans in the audience were finally appeased again, Jeff looked at everyone and said:

"When I first made my choice, I fantasized about how nice it would be if my father was still around, so that he could give his son the right advice on the choice of life path, but unfortunately he was not there, and I had to make my own decision."

"However, this choice, I don't want to decide for myself."

"I would like to ask you, who have fought for the country like my father, to give me a suggestion on behalf of my father, who has died in battle, so that I can feel what it is like to be absent from my father's love in life."

"I want you to tell me which way I should go, and whatever answer you end up telling me, I'll gladly accept it, because ......"

"You are my fathers, and you love this country more than I do...... Patriot. ”

"Finally, in accordance with the speech management, I would like to conclude by saying that God bless America...... I don't care about you! I don't want to say this, because I believe that if America is really protected all the time, it must have nothing to do with God, but with you! You true patriots, guarding this great country! ”

After speaking, Jeff threw away the stack of speeches, which scattered and fell in the air, and Jeff walked off the rostrum with red eyes and hugged the veterans.

The picture was really touching, and the few emotional outbursts during the speech could not have been Jeff's disguise. Martin thought to himself: "Boss, I'm ......"

"Get up and put the manuscript away, hurry up, I'm going to give this speech five more times in five nursing homes today." Tommy opened his eyes lazily and said to Martin, "Jeff can get lost and think he really wants to think those old guys as his father, but you, as the campaign manager, need to know what we're here to do, make money." ”

This is 8,000 words.,The day before yesterday and yesterday's update word count.,Tonight's code didn't come out.,Light design speech...... Otherwise, you should be able to write 12,000 ~ continue to code eight thousand today ~

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