usmcstinger
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What makes you an expert on war? Did you ever serve in our Armed Forces?
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Their sacrifices over the years have allowed people of your unappreciative ilk to post drivel like this on message boards.
I appreciate the lives of brave men and women more than our fucking government does.
Tell me how did sending tens of thousands of brave men to die in Vietnam do anything to make us safer?
Vietnam was no threat to us. How about Korea? Iraq? Afghanistan?
These were all undeclared wars motivated by political gamesmanship.
Was Iwo Jima or Normandy Beach a threat? I guess we could have just left the Japanese and Germans alone and went home, huh,
When I hear stories about veterans I get choked up.
When I'm hearing it, I'm caught up in listening. But when the story is over I notice I'm misty eyed or I have goose bumps. Maybe it's not remarkable. But I've only noticed it in recent years. Getting very sentimental in my old age.
The most recent time was listening to NBC news tonight and they mentioned the passing of Florence Green, the last known veteran of WWI.
BBC News - 'World's last' WWI veteran Florence Green dies aged 110
I've hesitated to mention this because I know I'm such a spectator and can't comprehend the sacrifices veterans have made. But well ... I'm moved.
The Japanese attacked us on own homeland.
The Japanese attacked us on own homeland.
Al Queda attacked us on our own homeland, assbrain.
how is the truth political?
I've never had a veteran ask me about the geo-political implications of the war in Vietnam. I have my opinions and they have theirs, but they usually go unspoken. We talk about getting shot at, what it's like to watch your friends die, the futility and brutality of war, of serving your country. We speak of duty, honor, integrity...
It is the "truth" that you choose to believe or not believe. War, for those who have served, is not political...
What makes you an expert on war? Did you ever serve in our Armed Forces?
OOOOOboy. You're in trouble now !!Since most of those brave men and women who died in service in the past 60 years did so in undeclared wars that had political motivations and nothing to do with the defense of the country, we should all be sad and ashamed that their lives were wasted by the country they served.
Do you get misty eyed over veterans?
War, for those who have served, is not political...
how untrue...for those who served came back and protested the hell outta the war
What makes you an expert on war? Did you ever serve in our Armed Forces?
Lewis (Chesty) Puller is the patron saint of Marines. When his forces were surrounded by the enemy in Korea, Puller proclaimed, Great, now we can shoot at those bastards from every direction. He also said, Take me to the brig. I want to see the real Marines.
Puller was a tough motherfucker and so were his troops. This prompted the following comment from a former president's wife:
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!
- Eleanor Roosevelt, 1945
Marines have two mottoes: Semper Fidelis, and Death Before Dishonor. Taken together, these principles form the highest standard of conduct imaginable.
Semper Fidelis (always faithful): This is a declaration of the unfaltering loyalty to the Corps and its mission.
Death before dishonor: This means that Honor is the ultimate guiding principle. The willingness to fight and die for Honor itself is the dominating code of a truly noble warrior.
Everyone has heard these words: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man (William Shakespeare). Marines live these words. Marines are not politicians; they are first, last and always warriors (killers if you prefer). Others declare wars; Marines fight them. The motives of the political class could never diminish the bravery and the honor of those who fought.
The Professor Radio-telegraph operator and forward air controller in the old Corps.
= meatheads.how is the truth political?
I've never had a veteran ask me about the geo-political implications of the war in Vietnam. I have my opinions and they have theirs, but they usually go unspoken. We talk about getting shot at, what it's like to watch your friends die, the futility and brutality of war, of serving your country. We speak of duty, honor, integrity...
It is the "truth" that you choose to believe or not believe. War, for those who have served, is not political...
well it's not political in the sense that those who served didn't get a whole lotta say in it
if they were told to go to Mars, they went
~S~
Since most of those brave men and women who died in service in the past 60 years did so in undeclared wars that had political motivations and nothing to do with the defense of the country, we should all be sad and ashamed that their lives were wasted by the country they served.
When I hear stories about veterans I get choked up.
When I'm hearing it, I'm caught up in listening. But when the story is over I notice I'm misty eyed or I have goose bumps. Maybe it's not remarkable. But I've only noticed it in recent years. Getting very sentimental in my old age.
The most recent time was listening to NBC news tonight and they mentioned the passing of Florence Green, the last known veteran of WWI.
BBC News - 'World's last' WWI veteran Florence Green dies aged 110
I've hesitated to mention this because I know I'm such a spectator and can't comprehend the sacrifices veterans have made. But well ... I'm moved.
The following is taken from an article by Jerry Lembke, author of The Spitting Image, which is based on the myth of returning Vietnam veterans being spat on.[...]
I like you, but you have an agenda and it is obvious. You deny that anti-war protestors spit on returning veterans. And for some reason, you think that every veteran should somehow stand for this political "truth" you hold dear. No, I only stand for those veterans.