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Seriously? He had to pick Memorial Day weekend for this?
"The TV host said: 'I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words "heroes".
'I feel... uncomfortable, about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.'"
Granted he backpedaled but Memorial Day weekend isn't the time for this.
Thank you for your discomfort concerning this host's being "uncomfortable".
I don't think this weekend was a proper time. It would be like upon the future occasion of J. Carter's death and televised funeral, a conservative commentator questioning the delivered eulogy.
Good to see people waking up to the scam.
Individuals may perform heroic deeds, but becoming a govt employee and killing on its behalf doesn't make it so.
Good to see people waking up to the scam.
Individuals may perform heroic deeds, but becoming a govt employee and killing on its behalf doesn't make it so.
Perhaps if the draft were reinstituted, you would be more likely to see volunteer soldiers as heroes.
Well, I think that it is something that should be talked about and I see no reason why this weekend, when that is all anyone is talking about, would be the wrong time.
Seriously? He had to pick Memorial Day weekend for this?
"The TV host said: 'I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words "heroes".
'I feel... uncomfortable, about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.'"
Granted he backpedaled but Memorial Day weekend isn't the time for this.
Dying in combat (or a combat arena), only makes you a statistic.
It takes a lot more to be a hero.
Sorry, but calling all who serve, a hero, sets the bar far to low for the real heroes.
Give them their due respect and honor them for their service, but pass the hero, to those that through their actions, were heroes.
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