Posted on 05/27/2019 4:55:55 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
This being Memorial Day, I was real proud of myself because the first thing I thought to do when I got up out of bed was to put up the flag in front of my house. Then I got online went to Twitter, and the first thing I saw was a thread by Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw, himself a Navy SEAL and veteran of three deployments to Afghanistan, remembering his fellow SEALs who did not make the trip home. I was going to write something myself this morning, but after seeing this I figure you don’t really need anything from me today.
Much has been written over the years about how reluctant combat veterans typically are to talk about their experiences in war. If you wonder what the combat veteran men and women you have known were thinking about on Memorial Day, Rep. Crenshaw’s thread, copied here so that those who do not habit Twitter can see it, will give you some idea. Please read it all the way through.
Dan Crenshaw ✔ @DanCrenshawTX Enjoy your Memorial Day and let us remember why we celebrate. We celebrate the lives of the heroes we have lost. Never Forget.
Read entire thread please.#MemorialDay2019 #MemorialDay
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No. Nothing is preventing you from posting the the full content right here.
Is there something you've written that isn't suitable for Free Republic?
So many of his friends lost. So many beautiful young lives.
Quite touching, thanks for posting and calling our attention to this
Amazingly enough, the internet is larger than Free Republic. Many interesting and informative things are posted there.
Equally amazing is that this dude ripped off Crenshaw's
material and expects to be rewarded with traffic for it.
The internet is not a zero sum game. If you see something you like, you can recommend it to your readers. The readers benefit from the new information. The target benefits from the free advertising. In economic terms, this is called a "win-win" scenario. It works much more effectively than your preferred model, "Everything must be posted on my web site."
And conveniently directed traffic to his own blog to see it.
What a hero.
Also, thanks once again for bumping an interesting article to the top of Latest Posts.
Thanks for posting.
We need to do everything and anything to encourage those of a conservative bent to express themselves here.
The internet is not zero-sum, but neither is it zero cost.
To illustrate the point, consider an analogy: You’re having a garage or yard sale but you live on an obscure back street. To make it easier for people to find your sale, you put a sign up in front of a popular restaurant on a busy intersection nearby. Naturally you don’t pay for such a thing because after all there are plenty of intersections and restaurants.
Before long, others start putting up their own signs until a regular customer, Mr. Humble, complains that there are so many signs in front now that it’s hard to see the legitimate signs for the Daily Special or Open hours when he drives past. Every business knows that “location location location” is a valuabe asset, and the advertising freeloaders are taking some of this value without paying for it. Frustrated Mr. Humble watches the intersection, and whenever he sees someone putting up a new garage sale sign, he expresses his disapproval.
If this were my site, I would solve this in a heartbeat by charging a fee, say $5.00, for posting blog links. That way the blogger would receive the benefit of having his “sign” in front of the 23,609th ranked global website and instead of taking advantage of my generosity, he would be a business partners who pays for the service. THAT would make it a win-win outcome.
And if he chose not to pay, no big loss because after all, the internet is a big place, and all the biggest websites got where they are by offering content that customers judged to be of value, not by squatting on Free Republic for free.
Well, I’m sure that if the owner of this site thought it was a bad idea, he’d ban the posting of and from blogs, period.
Thank you for posting.
SALUTE.
Like whining.
You’re absolutely right, I’m just a piece of software designed to annoy you.
Oh, no. I believe it serves a higher purpose.
It's here to annoy everyone.
In the industry, we call that a “value-added feature”.
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