Why is every “article” you post from the same source?
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:pboyington/index?tab=articles
Could it be that you are a re-tread of the Zotted pimp “usdefensewatch”?
http://www.freerepublic.com/~usdefensewatch/
Happy Thanksgiving.
An odd sort of article. The point of it seems to be that combat veterans should ignore the poseurs and freaks who pretend to have been in combat and just leave them to civilians to sort out.
OK, sure. We don’t go looking for the fakes anyway.
But the tone of this article is so larded with pomposity that it begs the question why it was written at all. Is somebody just bragging that he was allegedly in combat and showing off his open- mindedness?
If i see a poser-veteran, he won’t have a nice day.
Why?
I am of the generation that was spit on, stepped on, thrown feces at, while in uniform returning home.
I am of the generation that was chosen by government offices when to report for military service.
I was the generation that if your daddy had enough money, favors were paid for you to NOT go anywhere, or to be assigned someplace, in some rathole base stateside, where you were not to leave, for all of your required time to serve.
I CHOSE to enlist, to serve, and REQUESTED to be sent ‘over there’, and was, for 3 years time.
that’s why.