Posted on 05/24/2015 10:39:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Jovano Graves' parents begged him not to join the Army right out of high school in 2003, when U.S. troops were fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan..
But their son refused his parents' pleas to try college. He followed them both into the Army instead.
Last June, 11 years later, Staff Sgt. Jovano Graves returned home from Afghanistan, joining his mother, Chief Warrant Officer 4 Sonia Graves-Rivers, for duty here at Ft. Bragg.
"My family, going way, way back, has always felt so proud to be Americans," said Graves-Rivers, who comes from a family in which military service spans six generations, starting with her great-great-grandfather, Pfc. Marion Peeples, who served in a segregated black unit during World War I.
Her father, Cpl. Harvey Lee Peeples, fought in the Vietnam War. Her uncle, Henry Jones, was career Air Force. Another uncle, Sgt. 1st Class Robert Graves, spent 22 years in the Army. Her sister, Janice, served 24 years....
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Go pound sand you ingrate.
Are you one of those Minneapolis leftards who believe that anyone with any military background should not participate in the political process, including voting? IBTZ!
Exactly!
Spoken like a true democrat congressperson.
I believe that this thread deserves a little better than either the comments by sickoflibs or the responses back to him.
The article has hardly been discussed, probably in part to the FR tradition of never reading the article. This one is worth the time to read. The two LA Times reporters have wondered into a world that they clearly do not understand and that is totally alien to the existence they know in the main stream media.
They approach this article like one of those National Geographic travel adventures describing a strange and faraway culture wrapped in exotic costumes and secretive rituals. These two authors come from a world that cannot be further apart from military culture, discipline, ethics, and patriotism. The media have embraced the opposite character traits and then sanctimonious declared that they now stand on the superior morally pedestal.
Since they cannot understand what they are seeing, they decide to ridicule, demean, and minimize. In their mind, those who choose a military life must be flawed, perhaps not too smart, joined for all the free stuff, or a way to realize their murderous fantasies. They never consider that it’s their journalist world is the one quite sick. In a country that almost every institution has been destroyed by the Left. The military is almost alone by avoiding that fate.
The Left has destroyed institution largely through infiltration. Once they have controlled the institution, destruction has invariably followed. With the military, since they will never join it, they are trying to destroy it from the outside. This article is one of those attempts.
ESAD.
I will remember your screen name - and I don't even HAVE a good memory.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:sickoflibs/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change
Some thing odd is going on here.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:sickoflibs/index?more=94055566
I think poster does know what LOLO means... used it early on...
That was a very stupid thing to say, especially on FR.
And your pathetic attempts at humor to try and backpedal from your obvious opus (what else could it be?) are wearying.
I'm already in a foul mood, and am not inclined to listen to your protestations or your LIEbertarian explanations.
Yea, verily yea...
Sickoflibs
Ok now you’ve gone and done it....
Called all vets psychos. Insulted fellow freeper vets and their families.
Not. Good. At. All.
Old sarge, shibumi, onyx, darksheare
Cleanup in aisle 50.
To: 2ndDivisionVetRE:
”I just bought it the other day on a DVD along with “Flying Leathernecks” and “In Harm’s Way” for about $5 at Wally World.”
I got Verizon FIOS with the Quantum multi-room DVR system.I just DVRed it from the online guide.
The Green Berets always makes me laugh.It is one of the silliest corniest movies ever made.
But entertaining.
You are a good guy considering ....that Vet stuff..
Aren’t Vets all psychos like Rambo ??
50 posted on Mon May 25 2015 02:06:56 GMT-0500 (CDT) by sickoflibs (King Obama : ‘The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs””’)[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies | Report Abuse]
compare posts 31 & 36. They -do- know what LOLO etc means.
Sickoflibs? What are you? A Democrat?
It's a thing.
It's a thing.
It's a thing.
You do something.
It's a thing.
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