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May 28, 2007
Memorial Day
On Earth Day, recently, I noticed more than one conservative blogger "joking" about how they were going to celebrate by polluting, littering, driving an SUV in circles, etc. Hilarious stuff, right? Let's destroy our own environment just to piss off some lefties. Naturally, liberals were humorless for not seeing the joke.
How well do you think it would go down if I were to write something like this: "It's Memorial Day, and I'm going to celebrate by shitting on a soldier's grave, and wiping my ass with the American flag. Then I'm going to spit on some returning veterans at the airport, burn a stack of Bibles for good measure, pray to Mohammed, and have a little gay sex on the front lawn of an elementary school."
Funny, right?
Obviously I mean not a word of that hypothetical paragraph. But how did it make you feel?
UPDATE: I actually ended up spending the day with some U.S. Marines fresh out of training and ready to ship out in a month or so. Man, them guys can drink! Interestingly, perhaps, those who expressed an opinion said they disagree with the president, but that it doesn't matter -- their duty is to God, country, and corps. It's given many of them a purpose, and it's clear to me from talking to them that even if some of us on the outside may think troops are dying in vain, they don't at all, nor would they ever, because their purpose is to serve, no matter the mission.
These guys WANT to go to Iraq. Whether we want them there or not, I support their decision to choose that. Is that what we call supporting the troops?
Posted by LYT at May 28, 2007 12:46 PM [Message Board]
Comments
On the spitting on returning veterans, didn't that happen to the returning US soldiers coming back from the Vietnam War?
A better motivation is spitting on GWB...or, at least, his motorcade...
Posted by: ED209 at May 28, 2007 6:43 PM
Well - it would only sinking to their very juvenile level if you go there so there's no way it would make me feel anything - other than the usual quiet despair that there are so many 'people' like the originator of this statement with the "lefty liberals" self hating message, who continue to make loud appeals and merely qualify for the "I should be cleaned from the gene pool first" club.
Posted by: offpat at May 29, 2007 1:01 AM
it's like the example I gave elsewhere. The employees are doing a great job but the CEO is running the company into the ground.
Posted by: ReJeKt at May 29, 2007 4:35 PM
Hell, how many of us HAVEN'T worked at a company where we disagreed with decisions the boss made? Why would the military be any different? Oh, yeah...'cause their lives are on the line. I suppose if my boss's decisions would result in me getting shot at, I'd be a lot more vocal about his stupidity.
However, I know and am related to servicemen, and though it's not a choice I would make, I honor their decision.
And there are no words to say for the idiocy that some people display (re: first paragraph anti-Earth-day twits.)
Posted by: Peggy C at May 29, 2007 5:57 PM