cali
1. sorry, but they're not heroes and I really object to this
kind of sentimental claptrap. In fact it makes me ill. Really ill. It perpetuates the mythology of the grandness of wars.
By and large those who serve and those who died serving are simply cannon fodder, to use a somewhat quaint term, thrust into unjust wars.
That doesn't mean that I don't think we should aid those who serve, but this whole here garbage is just sickening.
Response to cali (Reply #1)Fri May 25, 2012, 07:43 PM
Bonobo
2. Glad you said what I was thinking and much better than I would have.
I am equally sickened when I hear Rachel Maddow perpetuating that kind of thinking.
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Response to cali (Reply #1)Fri May 25, 2012, 07:44 PM
OnionPower1
3. If only...
we could replace memorial day with pride day. fighting for the right to have sex with who you want - now those are real heroes here on DU!
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What pathetic idiots. These are the kinds of pacifists who love to go out and pick fights with anyone who doesn't agree with them, and if they get what they want, we're thugs, and if they don't, they get to bully people who won't fight back out of scruples. They have no decency or honor, and do not even understand the words.
Response to OnionPower1 (Reply #3)Fri May 25, 2012, 07:46 PM
pinto
4. Why not both?
So, you want a day in which war veterans can have sex with whoever they want to? Sounds like something that Mohammed came up with.