Several things about the good professor that comes to mind here, one is that the young men and women that are overseas getting these care packages are there doing a job that not only defends his rights to make such comments but are also doing a job he himself does not have the courage to defend. Let me be clear, while one's ability to be able to speak as they wish given to them by the constitution and cherished by all is exercised daily in this nation and by the professor who teaches the very law it is based on, he fails to recognize that that constitution survives because for over 200 year's young men and women have defended it with their lives. their limbs and often times with little more than a thank you and sometimes not even that. So if the good professor had to defend the very rights he is exercising I am sure he would be the first to advocate for a care package.
I'm sorry, but I insist. It was not the men making wars that guaranteed the constitution. Clever leaders and an open minded people, tired of the old world's opression, did it. Wars can only kill democracy. Remember the napoleonic wars. The french revolution was already starting to sink... when the wars started, the republican revolution was destroyed and buried. USA has what is necessary to ensure freedom. There are no needs for wars.
Bush Senior and Bush Junior are the only two republicans to ever take this country to war, the rest where all democrats. So dont act like it's warmongering republicans that have done it throughout time.
Also, you are wrong in one aspect of thought, had it not been for Americas men and woman putting on the uniform this country would have died many years ago through invasion or even worse, from within by crooked politicians, Remember the oath "Defend against all enemies, foreign AND DOMESTIC"?.
So yes, by serving they protect that constitution and our liberties and always have.
Willow, from one Vet to another...tell your grandson thank you for his service.