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About Me

I am Mark. People always have such mixed and very differing reactions and feelings about my current occupation.
It's hard to say much about what I do without polarizing everyone either against me or with me. I learned, it's not always best to say something. When I do I run the risk of losing friends -Strangers are just friends you haven't met- and losing potential friends is always sad. I also often get the usual, "Violence never solves anything." Well, To quote: "Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is mearly wishful thinking at its worst!" - Jean Rasczak
People often ask, "Mark, what are you going to do after you're done with the Army?" Honeslty I really don't know, I was hoping that this stint in the Army will give me some experiances and money that I can use later on. However, it's not looking like either. I'll have the GI money for school so I guess I should use that so I'll probably go to school in either California or New Mexico if I stay in the US, which, honestly I don't see happening, as school is a huge waste of time, and I have more and more of a yearning for Europe and to leave America behind. In that, I'm considering in the year 2010 when, I've been out of the US Army and have exhausted most my funds, joining the French Foreign Legion for at least Five years, going back into service and trying to earn my EU Citizenship. All in All though, I'm a fun lovin' guy; who loves to blast French, German or even Mexican Music whilst I drive, becuase if you don't have fun; why bother?
Keep in mind, I am Mark. Can't handle it? Tough. However, if you can, that's great, you won't meet anyone else like Mark.

My Interests

Adventure, Ancient Rome, Anti-Americanism, The American Civil War, Animals, Arabic, Army, Baseball, Books, Bushido, California, Cats, Cavalry Scouts, Chiropractics, Cigars, Comics, Der Vaterland, Diving, Drawing, Eugenics, Fascism, Fire, France, French Foreign Legion, Games, Germany, Globalization, History, Horses, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Kendo, Kingdom of Hawaii, Languages, Liechtenstein, Liverpool Football Club, Los Angeles Galaxy, Military, Nationalism, Philosophy, Polo, Rastafari, Republic of California, Roman Stoa, Running, Science, Space, Sports, Stoa and Stoic Beliefs, Swimming, Theory, Travel, Unification, Unity and World War Two.

I'd like to meet:

Real People from Near of Far.

Music:

Ai Otsuka, Beatles, Blanche, Blondie, Butterfly Boucher, Ch!pz, The Donnas, Eeek a Mouse, Hilary Duff, Die Fantastischen Vier, Fettes Brot, Flyleaf, Grateful Dead, Guttermouth, ill Mitch, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Kittie, Kyo, Lady Sovereign, The Living End, Matt and Kim, Bob Marley, Meg and Dia, Leigh Nash, No Doubt, Noir Desir, Oingo Boingo, Pesado, The Police, Shania Twain, Tijuana No!, Tsunami Bomb, Julieta Venegas, and way, way more...

Movies:

Battle Royal, Bend it like Beckham, The Blair Witch Project, All Bond Movies, The Boondock Saints, The Bourne Identity, Catch Me if You Can, Cinderella Man, Citizen Kane, The Black Dahlia, Dances with Wolves, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Downfall, The Dreamers, Elf, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Goodbye Lenin, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Gladiator, Happy Feet, Hard Candy, A Hard Day's Night, Indianna Jones, The Iron Giant, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Little Miss Sunshine, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Lola Rennt, The Longest Day, Lost in Translation, Lucky Number Sleven, The Matador, Mean Girls, Million Dollar Baby, Minority Report, Mulholland Drive, O Brother where art Thou?, On a Clear Day, Open Range, Reservoir Dogs, Saving Private Ryan, Scarface, The Shawshank Redemption, Sin City, Something's gotta Give, Stargate, Starship Troopers, Star Wars, Ten Things I Hate about You, Titan AE, Tombstone, Triumph of the Will, Underworld, Vanilla Sky, War of the Worlds, William Shakespears' Romeo and Juliet, and Zorro.

Television:

Channels: American Movie Channel, Cartoon Network, Country Music Television, Fox, History, SciFi, Turner Network Television, Viva, and UPN.
Shows: 24, Batman, Battlestar Galactica, Daria, Excel Saga, FLCL, King of the Hill, Family Guy, Futurama, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, Stargate: Atlantis and SG1, StarTrek: Enterprise and Voyager, and the old Disney Zorro!

Books:

All Quiet on the Western Front, Catch 22, The Count of Monte Cristo, Dude where's my Country?, Cannery Row, Code of the Samurai, The Great Gatsby, LA Rex, Meditations, Mein Kampf, Motorcycle Diaries, My Commando Operations, The Origin of Species, Papillion, Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Strange Land, Stupid White Men, The Way Things Work, and The World War series.

Heroes:

Otto Skorzeny , James Don Era, Jack Bauer, and The Cheat.

My Blog

My Life: Into

Dwelling on the Past for an Uncertain Future In the Past 20 1/2 Years of my Life, I have done and seen an ungodly amount of what the World has and what it lacks. Then again, I kno...
Posted by Spaeher on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:18:00 PST

Languages

Languages. Somethings are really interesting to me about a Language. It's the what you use to think, express yourself and learn and yet at the same time a Language can be used for the...
Posted by Spaeher on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:14:00 PST

More Markness

50 ODD Things1. How tall are you barefoot?5'10"2. Have you ever smoked heroin?Only Cigars and a few Cigs, exparamentaly 3. Do you own a gun?2 and 2 more are on loan from the Army4. Are you taken?yes5....
Posted by Spaeher on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 06:54:00 PST

A tad about Mark

Name: Mark Alexander HarderBirthday: 10APR1987Birthplace: Glendale, California Current Location: NW Iraq. Eye Color: HazelHair Color: Tri-Brown Height: 5'11"Right Handed or L...
Posted by Spaeher on Sat, 09 Sep 2006 10:45:00 PST

Confusion Galore!

Over the last year of my Life, I have learned a lot. Some say I've "grown" a lot as a person of charecter. If that is true, I'm deeply troubled by this trend. My whole life lead up to this...
Posted by Spaeher on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:46:00 PST

All I can Say.

It's been emotional.
Posted by Spaeher on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:05:00 PST

A Visit with Ted

I met Ted at Driving School in West Covina back in Sophomore year so that's aboot 3 Years ago. We ate at a KFC and became good friends and then he moved to MO. So ...
Posted by Spaeher on Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:59:00 PST

Welcome to the Cavalry

Posted by Spaeher on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 05:15:00 PST

OSUT is Done.

Well, my 16 weeks of OSUT Training in the US Army is now over. I am soo glad to be done, it was a rough time, especially that week in reception they don't really tell you about. So, I grad...
Posted by Spaeher on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:07:00 PST

9 down 7 (+3?) to go

Well, I've done 9 whole weeks of Basic training now. I'm on a weekend pass and currently in my hotel in Louisville Kentucky. So far I've done a lot of crazy stuff from shooting the AT-4 rocket l...
Posted by Spaeher on Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:53:00 PST