I heard a veteran crying this week. [Vanity]

Michael Medved's radio show - various ^ | Jan. 24, 2003

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I heard a veteran crying this week.

 

Michael Medved was discussing last weekend's peacenik rallies on his daily radio show - the promotion and coverage of these rallies by our press, the excuse it gave our "allies" to turn on us the following Monday - when the Vietnam veteran called.

 

In a strong voice he denounced the rallies and spoke of his service and the honorable service of his brother, uncle.....and his voice trembled....son, currently active. His pain, re-awakened and raw, at the betrayal of our troops during the Vietnam war, at the current betrayal of our nation by our press; by anti-Americans rating space in our press while wiser voices are silenced; by politicians putting their personal ambitions before the welfare of our nation, uniting and strengthening our enemies and weakening and dividing America - once again.  This brave, strong veteran finished in tears.

 

I cried that day, listening to this Veteran re-live the betrayal of our best and brightest by fellow-Americans - members of our press, American stars, our professors, poets and politicians. These same people lived through 9-11.

 

After 9-11, many of us said that we would not allow the press, Hollywood and the organized anti-American peaceniks to again control the public debate, to own the international soapbox and to determine the course of our nation. The left's Vietnam-era news monopoly now has competition from Rush, FoxNews, FR - with the internet making it easy to research facts and reach others. We thought that we could prevent the mainstream newsmedia from giving the tiny % of protesters legitimacy. We believed that the mainstream press, knowing that others could now quickly verify their stories, would behave more professionally.  We believed that the mainstream press would finally admit the lie of moral equivalency and would finally choose sides following the unprovoked slaughter of thousands of civilians on US soil on 9-11. We were wrong.

 

We have learned that the "will of the people" means nothing if it conflicts with the agenda of the left. We saw it following the November elections with the three-week Al Gore press blitz, the continued hypocrisy of the Democrats re. racism. We see it daily in the star treatment of Dem. presidential candidates and politicians, actors given coverage to criticize our legitimately elected President - our Commander in Chief - and the elected majority party in Congress. We saw it in the international press whitewashing of some truly rotten groups behind the organized peacenik rallies last weekend. Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter...the list of no-accounts on the left grows. Scott Ritter. The press is definitely not representing the "will of the people."

 

The left will continue to ignore standard rules of decency and honor, the Constitution, tradition, history and common sense in their endless pursuit of power and popularity on the world stage.

 

I will think of the veteran who cried, and continue to Freep.

Tell friends, church groups, sportsmen. Do a Google search, keywords:["God bless America", e-mail].

Freep on.

The Anti-Warriors, Dan Flynn's article - Rush read last Monday.
Questioning the Integrity of the Anti-War Group.
289 Million Americans Avoid Peace Rallies, parody (and truth (^:)
CHEW ON THIS, Christopher Hitchens (send to your "peacenik" friends!).
Not in Our Name -- Not in Your Life, Frontpagemag. The groups behind the "peaceniks."
Marching with Stalinists, Michael Kelly on today's left, ANSWER.

Dear American soldier , Michelle Malkin's excellent thank you letter to our troops.

Excerpts from Stolen Valor: How The Vietnam Generation Was Robbed Of its Heroes And its Historyby B.G. Burkett & Glenna Whitley :

Part I - Rambo and the Bogus War Heroes
Part II - Welcome Home, Babykiller
Part III - Will the Real Vietnam Vet Stand Up?
Part VI - The VVA - The Vietnam Victims of America

[Taxman]

PS Happy Birthday!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Happy Birthday, mfulstone!

Mea culpa. I left out the positive stuff!

 

When the VLWC gets you down, remember:

The "Cops' Cheer"

"Get out of Cheney's house!"

Every military/legitimate vote counts!

Terry's DNC - Al Gore election 2002 "Florida referendum,"

Jesse Jackson escaping angry protestors, ducking into a taxi in front of the USSC - election 2000,

DC Freepers - a few dozen patriots restoring sanity to the nation during anti-American rent-a-mob weekends.

Freepers are awesome!

 

When the VLWC gets you down, think of Free Republic.

One man who loved his country built his dream,

And invited others to join him.

Think about all that Freepers have done. Glance at a name - Mudboy Slim, MeeknMing, AnnaZ, Angelwood, Registered, John Huang2, Luis Gonzalez, Mo1, Trueblackman, Tonkin, doug from upland, Jeff Head, Billie, Anti-Jen, rintense, summer, PhiKapMom, glocks rocks - you'll smile. Freepers are a positively heartwarming and growing number of battle-ready allied troops.

Just a few short years ago there was no Free Republic.

Think of the future possibilities.

[AuntB]

Thanks for your service, mfulstone, we appreciate you! I just got an email for a petition to support our Commander in chief...which I see as a support of our troops. You may want to check it out:

http://www.grassfire.net/26/petition.asp?PID=3556246

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Dearest Tonkin, I wrote this because the peaceniks and the press really pissed me off and not enough pundits were calling a traitor a traitor - telling the truth about these spoiled and charismatic criminals behind the rent-an-American-hater rallies.

I know that you, your fellow veterans and patriots have been fighting this battle on the homefront with our leftist press for decades. Well, the battle has been joined. We give notice to the press. Their days of remaining objective in this war are numbered.

Please read #22. I meant to inspire, not depress Freepers...especially our courageous veterans. This was meant to be a kick-butt, not a throw in the towel thread. (^;

[mommadooo3]

Some veterans bear visible signs of their service:
a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye.
Others may carry the evidence inside them:
a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg--or perhaps
another sort of inner steel:
the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity.

Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem.
You can't tell a vet just by looking.

What is a vet?

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.

He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.

She--or he--is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

He is the POW who went away one person and came back another--or didn't come back at all.

He is the Quantico drill instructor that has never seen combat--but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.

He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.

He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.

He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor die unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket--palsied now and aggravatingly slow--who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being, a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.

So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say, "Thank you." That's all most people need, and in most cases, it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.

Two little words that mean a lot: "THANK YOU."

It is the soldier,
not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the soldier,
not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the soldier,
not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.

It is the soldier,
Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Welcome home!

Praise the Lord....
and pass the ammunition.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Bump.

[sarasmom]

Happy birthday!

I wonder if anyone besides myself has mused about the fact that veterans generally dont "protest", they parade.Funny how some people use their time and expend their efforts in meaningless public protests on what they are "against", when they are not in any real danger of being called upon to defend or explain,in any meaningfull way, their loudly voiced, but cheaply valued, "rights" to free speech.

I am certain more educated FReepers could come up with an actual comparative figure, based on hard facts, but just once-I would like to see the media take into consideration ethics in reporting protest marches, and assuming a pulled out of thin air comparison of 1000 to 1, give those who are active duty or veterans equal time when covering anti-whatever protests.

Televise the protesters by all means, but if they show 10 seconds of 1000 anti-whatevers, show 10 seconds of the one, who shows support of something they actually have knowledge and personal experience of.

All opinions are not of equal value.Often, the 1 voice is a more valuable measure of truth, than the din of the 1000 voices.

Hit the Freeper Foxhole,I dont know how to link it for you.

I dont go everyday, but especially nowadays, it helps sometimes just to know its there.

AntiJen, can you post a link?

[Jen]

Sure, I can post a link to the FReeper Foxhole! It's a fairly new daily thread in the VetsCoR Forum.

Thanks so much for your support!

[Snuffington]

Bumpity-bump! Well said!

[rightofrush]

Even the thought of all those name inscriped there brings tear to my eyes. I will never ever forget how these brave souls were betrayed, cursed and spit upon on their return to America.

My prayers are with you all and I say proudly:

GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND GOD BLESS AMERICA.

We share the same sentiments.

This is why I do not want to send anyone of our troops to Iraq. Nukes yes, not troops. A palace a day 'till Saddam sees it our way.

[rightofrush]

You needed to mention those that one never approaches from behind without identifying yourself, those that loose themselves in the wilderness, literal and figurativly, and those that suffer from illnesses that the VA will not recognise.

[radu]

Thanks for the ping, Johnny!

Excellent thread, Ragtime Cowgirl! I've been disgusted by the media bias for some time. That those who are fighting for the freedoms the media loves to abuse, and those who fought before, are constantly subjected to their tripe sickens me. This thread has me grabbing Kleenex.

I'm with you, Johnny.... LET'S ROLL!!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

You are very welcome. Thank you, radu.

A crying veteran is a powerful motivator.

Americans need to hold the press accountable. The last published poll re. the press was shortly after 9-11, those few weeks when the press was scared sensible. They'd be shocked, I think, at how many Americans would call them traitors and take away their press priviledges today.