#2419063 - 06/16/11 10:56 AM
Re: Is the USA at war?
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BlackBelt
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Registered: 08/09/08
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Loc: SouthWest TN
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My dad (retired Marine) goes to every one of them that's within reasonable driving range of his home. He usually makes 2 or 3 a month.
He also coordinates military funeral honors if the family requests them.
Some of the stories he has told me are pretty sad. Armed forces personell with no one, or maybe just one or two people at their funeral.
One funeral that he went to last year there was just the widow there and an estranged relative to the family. The preacher didn't even show up. Dad pulled out his Bible and did his best to honor the man as a stand-in for the missing pastor.
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#2420082 - 06/17/11 01:25 PM
Re: Is the USA at war?
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Bambi Buster
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Registered: 01/29/04
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Loc: Middle Tennessee
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Results are as I expected. On the forum for 48+ hours, 250+ views, only two affirmative responses. Both of those were from current/former service members who've been there/done that recently. That does not make their acts any less commendable.
Over the last 3 years, 40 Tennesseans have died in Iraq or Afghanistan, nearly all at the hands of the enemy. That's more than one a month. They hailed from Memphis to Kingsport and all points in between. Yet among the TnDeer membership, a supposed bastion of conservative, apple pie eating, flag waving,NASCAR loving good old boy Americans, not a single member knew any of them, or their families or their friends well enough to attend their farewells.
The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have both recently lamented the tremendous and widening disconnect that exists between the U.S. military and those of us whom they voluntarily give so much to defend. A liberal pundit observed over four years ago that "..this war has been emotionally outsourced to a professional class that mainstream American has almost no contact with." Someone else said, "America is not at war, the military is at war. America is at the mall".
Several who are serving currently have told me in more blunt terms, "They have no idea what we're going through, and worse; they just don't care." It gets harder every day to convince them they are wrong.
'Tis a pity; 'tis a crying shame.
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