RE: Veteran's day shout out to those who sacrificed to protect and defend.
November 12, 2014 at 2:58 am
Thanks.
I joined the Air Force because while I wanted to pitch in on the country which had given me so much, I had no real desire to kill people. I enlisted in 1989, and was assigned duty as a firefighter, which worked out in the end. I did my hitch, played my small part in my small war, and grew into my boots.
It breaks my heart to see these wonderful young men and women have their lives broken on the wheel of bullshit money-grubbing politics. I marched against the 2003 invasion of Iraq because it was so clearly bullshit, and I will speak out against the wanton waste of our youth. There are indeed times when sacrifice is called-for in service to the nation, but it shouldn't be over the price of a barrel of oil, or a terror-distraction from the ongoing purchase of our government by megacorps.
/rant
Also: the truest patriotism is that which speaks the truth about one's country, in the hopes of not only extolling its virtues, but repairing its deficiencies.
I joined the Air Force because while I wanted to pitch in on the country which had given me so much, I had no real desire to kill people. I enlisted in 1989, and was assigned duty as a firefighter, which worked out in the end. I did my hitch, played my small part in my small war, and grew into my boots.
It breaks my heart to see these wonderful young men and women have their lives broken on the wheel of bullshit money-grubbing politics. I marched against the 2003 invasion of Iraq because it was so clearly bullshit, and I will speak out against the wanton waste of our youth. There are indeed times when sacrifice is called-for in service to the nation, but it shouldn't be over the price of a barrel of oil, or a terror-distraction from the ongoing purchase of our government by megacorps.
/rant
Also: the truest patriotism is that which speaks the truth about one's country, in the hopes of not only extolling its virtues, but repairing its deficiencies.
