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Audacity of Truth
Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
We’ve come a long way from Vietnam, but that doesn’t stop certain anti-war folks from acting like editeds
You can insert your own word in place of where you see the word “edited” in the thread title above.
Grim at Blackfive has a couple of posts up this week about soldiers here in the US and in the UK being treated like second class citizens after going to a bar/pub and trying to buy a drink.
I’m thankful that most stories we hear from troops who are returning home are positive ones. However, there are always exceptions to the rule, and the world class losers who treated these military men with such contempt deserve to have a little bit of the limelight shown on them. Maybe the attention they get will ensure that what happened at their establishments never happens again.
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Same sort of thing at Harrods in London:
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Something very similar happened to me when I came home from RVN in ‘69. I went to a local Legion post, where I was told that I wasn’t wanted there, they only wanted “people who had won their wars”.
That sticks in my mind to this day. Beyond that is the memory of “old friends” ganging up on me at the local hangout screaming baby killer and all the other insults of the day. I resent them to this day.
Many of them were in my graduating class of High School. When reunion time rolls around, I get asked why I’m not going, and I say because of the shit back in the 60’s. I’ve been told more than once that “that doesn’t matter anymore”. Well I think it matters, and the fact that they don’t think it matters is exactly why I think they are POS.
I’m a member of an active disabled veteran group run out of the Providence VA hospital. We have begun to see these kinds of incidents reported. It’s sad to see a repeat of the hatred thrown at our servicemembers, who serve with the honorable intentions of serving their country, and us.
I go out of my way to thank young servicepeople I meet. They have left their homes and their families under dangerous conditions, for the good of all of us. It’s not their fault when the political system or a President makes some bad choices and gets us stuck in some ugly, god forsaken place.
Blame the people you voted for, not the servicemen and women.