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   Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago

   Thanks to all that have served to stop fascism.
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   DrCanuck said, 6 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   ^ And thanks to all who WILL serve to stop American Fascism.
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   Stipple said, 6 months ago

   You do not sound like an American Veteran. Are you sure?
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   ghostkeeper said, 6 months ago

   “Thanks, Grandpa.’ That means a lot coming from one’s grandchild. From politicians laying wreaths at memorials who then go and cut military benefits, pensions and services even more, who provide psychiatric help to shellshocked veterans of 10 minutes a week via Skype, bureacracies routinely denying pensions, that really means . . . . a barnyard of plant fertilizer. Soldiering – - – it’s a mug’s game.
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   ghostkeeper said, 6 months ago

   @

   “Don’t invade Canada to stop fracking . . .” Actually, as a Canadian you’d have my support on that. As for ‘walking away from Afghani women" funny, there was no problem with the Taliban murdering women before 9/11. As for socialism and debt, the debt is because of the military expenditures, not social expenditures. Tax cuts for the rich also don’t help. These days, an Eisenhower Republican would be considered a socialist, heck even Nixon (started the EPA, after all) would have problems getting in. And Nixon was a putz!
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   ahab said, 6 months ago

   In Flanders fields the poppies blow/Between the crosses,row on row/That marl our place;and in the sky/The larks,still bravely singing,fly/Scarce heard amid the guns below.— by Major John McCrea, Canadian physician who died of pneumonia while on active duty in 1918
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   ahab said, 6 months ago

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   Sr NONliberal. We reflected on freedom, as you wished… and voted for Obama.
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   ahab said, 6 months ago

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   VA peer counseling is available.
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   mikefive said, 6 months ago

   @ahab

   Thought I’d post the rest, ahab. I hope you don’t mind.
   ♦
   We are the Dead. Short days ago
   We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
   Loved and were loved, and now we lie
   In Flanders fields.

   Take up our quarrel with the foe:
   To you from failing hands we throw
   The torch; be yours to hold it high.
   If ye break faith with us who die
   We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
   In Flanders fields.
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    Eryx said, 6 months ago

    Must ignore the stupid, stupid, trolls.
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    MortyForTyrant said, 6 months ago

    Grandpa didn’t fight fascism, he went to Nam and burned down villages. I’m all for honoring soldiers, seamen and airman who actually DEFENDED a country, but dropping bombs from 30.000 feet onto a – basically – stone-age civilization is nothing to honor. All U.S. soldiers sign up in the CLEAR KNOWLEDGE that they will fight overseas, not on their home shore (if the enemy ever reaches America you will nuke yourself before letting him land). So every veteran since 1945 is an accomplice in (or even possibly a perpetrator of) war crimes and crimes against humanity. Happy Veterans Day…
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    mikefive said, 6 months ago

    Who kept you from being overrun by the USSR for 45 years, Morty?
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    cjr53 said, 6 months ago

    @MortyForTyrant

    Perhaps you’ve heard of conscription? If not, perhaps the draft system in place in America when the US was escalating war in Viet Nam? Young men were drafted into the Service. My cousin was in a long line and as the line advanced, the military guy at the beginning would point at the next draftee and state what branch of the Service he would be joining. In turn, each young man would then be shuffled off to either Army, Navy, Marines or Air Force.
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    cjr53 said, 6 months ago

    @mikefive

    Well, yes. Take a few moments and listen to the Elvis Presley song, GI Blues. While certainly not a complete picture, it adds some flavor to what happened after WWII.
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    mickey1339 said, 6 months ago

    @MortyForTyrant

    Morty, I have tried to respond to this 3 times and each time I am overcome with a combination of rage and sadness. You must hate America, because you denigrate the sacrifice so many have made in her honor. People that served without question, young and naive, answering the call of their country. Wouldn’t it be nice if they all had your sage wisdom to judge the purpose of their service and argue the philosophical points of war and service.
    Have you served in harms way, just trying to stay alive and follow the orders given you? Were you in Viet Nam and experience first hand the horrors of the war? Have you seen your friends die at the hands of children with explosives hidden on them while they tried to befriend them? Have you suffered through the confusion of war only to be rewarded with nightmares and painful memories that always seem to be too vivid and never fade? How about when you survive, only to come home and be confronted with people like you who make you feel guilty for your service? I doubt it. It doesn’t fit your sanctimonious, self serving manner. You disgust me…
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