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We Were Soldiers
I loved the music
However, this isn't about the music.
I was particularly struck by the last words of one young U.S. soldier as he lay dying: “I’m glad I died for my country.”
Except that he didn’t. He didn’t die for his country. He died for his government, which was the entity that ordered him to go to Vietnam and intervene in that nation’s civil war. His country never ordered him to do anything.
Hindsight is 20-20. Too bad so many don't use it properly.
So many, (and disclaimer here), I used to be one, believed that fighting in wars of aggression is a just war, although kids rarely concern themselves with just. Some say it's getting worse due to the compliance dictates in Public Education and our police have become a comply or die cartel.
This latest fiasco with the virus is being used as a tool and many have taken up the mantra that China is our enemy. We're still fighting a gov't declared enemy in the ME- when are enough adults going to come to their senses and realize that just because the gov't makes a claim doesn't make it so. The Chinese don't care about "we the people" and neither do people in the ME. They do have a problem with our gov't's hypocrisy- and so do I. The constitution means nothing to the weak boned in the District of Criminals-
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
I loved the music
However, this isn't about the music.
I was particularly struck by the last words of one young U.S. soldier as he lay dying: “I’m glad I died for my country.”
Except that he didn’t. He didn’t die for his country. He died for his government, which was the entity that ordered him to go to Vietnam and intervene in that nation’s civil war. His country never ordered him to do anything.
Hindsight is 20-20. Too bad so many don't use it properly.
So many, (and disclaimer here), I used to be one, believed that fighting in wars of aggression is a just war, although kids rarely concern themselves with just. Some say it's getting worse due to the compliance dictates in Public Education and our police have become a comply or die cartel.
This latest fiasco with the virus is being used as a tool and many have taken up the mantra that China is our enemy. We're still fighting a gov't declared enemy in the ME- when are enough adults going to come to their senses and realize that just because the gov't makes a claim doesn't make it so. The Chinese don't care about "we the people" and neither do people in the ME. They do have a problem with our gov't's hypocrisy- and so do I. The constitution means nothing to the weak boned in the District of Criminals-
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.