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Yes, you have offended many. I come from a family who served in wars since the beginning of our country and I thank them for what they did to keep us free. My dad, all my uncles, my brother in law and our son have served. Some long enought to retire, others just during war time, but they still served and they di it willingly.
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The fact is that between Vietnam and Afghanistan, most people joined to get away from where they were or to get the benefits that were being doled out by the government in exchange for 4 years of military service. Don't be offended by that. It was the norm. I knew of many people who joined just for those reasons.
Coming to an understanding of one`s inevitable mortality, as we all do at some point in life, people tend to look for ways to make the short time spent on this Earth matter.
For many of us, our love for our country and our hope to make the US more secure from her enemies motivated us to enlist in the military.
By doing this, the nation benefits from our service, the freedom loving world is more stable and our short time on Earth counts for something worthwhile.
As an alternative to military service, one might volunteer at a soup kitchen or food bank, deliver meals to the elderly, pull weeds, cut grass, shovel snow, read to kids...whatever the need happens to be.
In all these things an individual can make a difference in the lives of others and give meaning to their own.
Then there are the *******s who don`t know how to say "thank you" or at least shut the **** up.
I suppose it all comes down to initiative or the lack thereof.
When I was eighteen, I had the initiative to enlist in the US Marine Corps.
I wanted to do something in life that mattered.
If you don`t have that kind of initiative, if you are a dedicated non-hacker, then I suppose you might spend your short time on Earth talking **** about what those with balls and initiative do.
and I have to wonder how many of those here that put down the military have offered their services to soup kithens, food pantires, childrens hospitals, homes for women who have been abused or even simple things like mentoring at their near by elemenatary school helping kids who need a little extra love? I bet not many.
Since Islam (through al-Qaeda, ISIS, and The Muslim Brotherhood) has made clear its intention to destroy Western civilization, and especially Israel and the United States, our fight against Islamic terrorists (which is the fighting force of Islam) is a fight to defend our freedom. Your statement that they "died at the hands of politicians," is false.
No Islam is defending itself from our meddling. The West cut up.and reorganized the middle east along geographic boundaries for their energy resources after world war 2. It would seem putting military bases on foreign soil and overthrowing/implementing new governments at our whim upsets the people we do it to....
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
------------Dwight D. Eisenhower
Most clear thinking people do not like war.
Anti-war folks, please, we got it. Most of PEOPLE do not like war, period. So you ain't alone. But it is not about YOU all the time, always.
Live and let live, people just want to spend Memorial weekend however they want to spend it without hearing your opinions about war and military all the time.
and I have to wonder how many of those here that put down the military have offered their services to soup kithens, food pantires, childrens hospitals, homes for women who have been abused or even simple things like mentoring at their near by elemenatary school helping kids who need a little extra love? I bet not many.
Defending our country means different things to different people.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...SRlQPD6XiwThis Memorial Day weekend, please thank a Vet for his service, and pray for the safety of those still in harms way. Also pray for our country, which is in need of restoration. Our core values and principles, even our Constitution is under assault every day. Let's reflect on those who have fought and died for Freedom and Liberty, not only for ourselves, but for others yearning to be free.
Please point out where the Constitution tasks us with sending Americans to fight and die for "others yearning to be free"? Especially when all too often those 'others' are unwilling to fight and die for themselves.
You bleeding heart conservatives are something else, you bristle at the mere idea of buying a Band-Aid for an American while being perfectly willing to sacrifice that American's life for someone else.
No disrespect intended towards those who go off and fight. No respect for those who send them on useless missions of no benefit to the US.
This. I would never question someone's bravey or patriotism who serves, but most of those people should of never been put in a position to serve. Last real imminent threat was the Cuban missile crisis and last threat that required boots on the ground was WW2.
FDR took us to war in Europe because his big government jobs programs failed to reduce unemployment and he needed to pull millions of able-bodied young men out of the workforce.
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FDR took us to war in Europe because his big government jobs programs failed to reduce unemployment and he needed to pull millions of able-bodied young men out of the workforce.
Yeah, US territory being attacked by another nation had nothing to do with it, eh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...SRlQPD6XiwThis Memorial Day weekend, please thank a Vet for his service, and pray for the safety of those still in harms way. Also pray for our country, which is in need of restoration. Our core values and principles, even our Constitution is under assault every day. Let's reflect on those who have fought and died for Freedom and Liberty, not only for ourselves, but for others yearning to be free.
Maybe you should be ashamed of your education system? It's "country" not "contry".
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