Letter to the editor (Oregonian): A Veteran Asks: Thanks for What?

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  1. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    You can't blink.
    You have to be wired
    In a way of being
    So committed to the mission,

    The mission that we're on,
    Reform of this country,
    And victory in the war,
    You can't blink.

    So I didn't blink.

    barfo
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    As the war-weary majority said during and long after WW1

    Ours is not to question why
    Ours is but to do and die.

    It's a sarcastic antiwar refrain, that I often heard in the 50s and 60s, about being oppressed to kill. It means this is stupid, mercenary, and self-destructive. The implication for this thread is that the last thing I'm going to do is praise anyone for doing evil.
     
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    Your precious freedoms are the result of this country going to war against countries like Germany which once threatened the entire world. The reason we live in freedom, and you have the privilege to keep on spewing ignorance, is because we are so militarily strong that other countries are afraid to attack us.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    Whatever freedom I have is due to liberals defeating conservatives in battles, both legislative and military. We just saw one with regard to health care.
     
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    You quoted from "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Tennyson.

    I think you meant to say,

    Over there, over there,
    Send the word, send the word over there -
    That the Yanks are coming,
    The Yanks are coming,
    The drums rum-tumming
    Ev'rywhere.
    So prepare, say a pray'r,
    Send the word, send the word to beware.
    We'll be over, we're coming over,
    And we won't come back till it's over
    Over there.
     
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    With all due respect- that is the single most ignorant statement I have seen in my life. But why am I not surprised?
     
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    Jefferson was a conservative.

    Madison was a conservative.

    Lincoln was a conservative.

    Try again buddy.
     
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    I thank them for their service, and knowing that if our country is ever attacked they will be the ones putting their lives on the line to keep the rest of us safe and free.
     
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  9. BlazerWookee

    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    Even if that cost is tyranny?
     
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    Pretty funny article actually. The author failed to provide any facts (shocking) as to why vets are committing suicide. Could the pain be from pulling your friends from a truck that has just been blown to pieces?? Or the people that actually feel remorse after they've killed a suicide bomber? Some of you are so far detached from reality it is astonishing. I never realized how many military haters there were in Oregon until I moved away. Come to think of it why do we even have a military? According to this board, there is no need for one and we can all live in perfect harmony.
     
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  11. Eastoff

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    I guess I should have phrased it better. War should be avoided until it becomes a righteous war. I'd say WWII was the only righteous war of the 20th century. Maybe the Korean "war," intervening in Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan now. We should be trying to help bring some kind of peace to western Africa imo.
     
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  12. Eastoff

    Eastoff But it was a beginning.

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    Jefferson was definitely not a conservative. He was the one who wanted separation of church and state. The only separation of church from the state of the conservatives I know is the church of not christian.
     
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    I am also a vet and can see where he is coming from. I would rather someone put their energy into knowing why they are thanking me rather than getting the robotic post 9/11 "thanks" or singing the anthem/"God Bless America".
     
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