Over a decade ago I bought a Soviet officer visor cap at one flea market, then I wore it when I went to banks, stores, the library and other places. I think people must have been amused, but it was ok I thought.
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Then a decade ago I also wore this US army uniform jacket and went to a bar, some women seemed to like it.
Sometimes people with their PhDs are no smarter than you. I remember the time in 1991 when I had to complete my Finnish military service, I was engaged at the time and then in one party this one PhD person said āwomen like uniformsā without really understanding that the military service was mandatory. He probably thought I went to the military voluntarily as the US military service is based on. However, some people whom I met in Mexico in 1996 knew immediately why I had gone to the military service.
Back in 1999 when I started hearing voices, I was once in Charleston near one US military academy and I got a voice telling me that I was a salamander capable of living in fire and then during the same trip I had a voice that some Ted wants to meet me before I left, left where I wondered, to the world I guess 
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I put oil and salt around all my windows and door. It looked really grossā¦I wonder if my parents ever noticedā¦it was a part of my effort to ākeep the demons out.ā I slept with the bible every night and crossed myself with holy water lol. Or Iād sneak into bed with my brother in hopes Iād be saferā¦heās definitely seen a lot of the weird side of me!!
Nothing too crazy on my part yet so far though, thank goodness.
Iād be careful with that, some people will get very angry with you for dressing up like this and āimposteringā a US soldier. I wouldnāt recommend doing itā¦itās seen as disrespectful here anyways.
Once when I lived alone in one house in Atlanta, I had a flag day and I decorated the whole outside of the house using all flags (20 or so) I had collected during my international trips. I am sure those neighbors might have thought this to be abnormal. This was in Feb 2000 and still today in 2015 I have those flags with me.
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They actually sell all kinds of army clothing in my little town. In summers I have a German army summer jacket, it was just 5 euros, they have all kinds of clothing, especially the US army surplus and people buy these and wear these clothing.
Huh thatās interesting. When I lived in Texas I swear some people wouldāve shot you for that hahaha. Itās different everywhere I guess!
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Too many to post here. 
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Well among some innocent things like trying to live on my own at my stoner friendās place, overdosing and overdrinking, picking up the wrong people and few othersā¦
I live.
I talk to myself everywhere and loudly enough that I can be heard. it is the way things are for me now.
judy
I got an inappropriate personalized license plate that called attention to me.
I wonāt say what it said, but I kept it for about a week and then switched back to plain-old ordinary.
I have slept with the Bible, with crosses and even drove across country with the Bible on the seat next to me. I donāt do the church thing anymore and even then it was kind of hit or miss kind of thing. I have been sleeping with the light since before it became the twenty-first century. My mother refuses to sleep in the same room with me because of that. Iād rather just sleep with my cat and stuffed animals. I should say I may be a āgrown-upā but I have mostly slept with stuffed animals. I never really quit that habit. Now, I sleep with three stuffed dragons: Orange Cream Pop, Pinky and the Brain, and Frankie after Frank Sinatra. You know the āI gotta be meā song! I donāt care what those mental health professional diagnose me as. Radar on MASH slept with a teddy bear!
Im with Anna.
In the US wearing military stuff that you havenāt earned is a unforgivable sinā¦unless you are psycho and donāt know no better.
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Sorry OP
To answer your question, I blew my life savings running from the voices in my head.
Im over a thousand miles from where I was and they are still hereā¦I did this not once but twice.
Im getting ready to do it again.
Such is life.
This US military clothing wearing is quite popular here as it was already in the beginning of the 1980s when I wore some pants that had been used in Vietnam, I think that everybody can see a difference when a person wears the US army uniform jacket with jeans, once I also wore the Russian double-headed eagle black fur hat, there is nothing wrong with this. German military clothing is much less expensive than the US surplus clothing. There is one person who wears always DDRās clothing because he likes to do so. You know we live in different worlds. What one wears in one nation may not be appropriate in another nation. At flea markets some US army uniform jacket costs just 5 euros.
That Teddy bear was essential to the survival of many people there at MASH. An important member (almost) of the army.
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Yep different worlds.
Im disappointed by how I cant usually tell how someone is not from the US on the internet unless they arenāt loud, obnoxious, and opinionated.
I had one of these!! Bought in a souvenier shop in the Czech Rep, at age 15something. Never wore it in public though