We save God and Scripture for the Really Important Things these days .... like Prime Time spots in which "pro-lifers" can sell to the American Public the use of human lives as mulch for "humanitarian" experiments funded by inimitably moral Uncle Sam.
The memorial's all about "them" anyway. I doubt very seriously we're going to see the most Selfish Generation the world has ever seen (save for the Boomer children with which they saddled us, perhaps) rise up and complain that there wasn't enough room on the monument to include accolades to wimmen AND God.
They're too busy organizing the voting blocs necessary to maintain Bush's grand Medicare giveaway.
They're too busy organizing the voting blocs necessary to maintain Bush's grand Medicare giveaway.
Askel, I'm a relative newcomer here. But do believe me when I say I hold your intellect in high regard, and admire your devotion I've seen in many of your older posts regarding the left and communism, of which, I've read many.
With all due respect to you...your claim is total BS and totally disrespectful.
That memorial isn't just about "THEM". It's about me to, although I'm only 36 years old.
You see, I'm the grandson and namesake of a man killed near the end of WW2, on Feburary 27, 1945 to be exact. He was an Army medic, and died doing his job during a German artillery barrage. He was buried in the American military cemetary, Margratten, Holland.
I have the flag which draped his coffin, along with his personal effects on him when he died.
He never lived to collect any of the government benefits that generation now enjoys. Matter of fact, the government couldn't even guarantee that his remains would be the ones in the box bearing his name, if my grandma had decided to have him returned.
He never saw his son's face. My dad never saw his dad's face.
I don't feel owed anything. I don't feel special. Many others are just like me and done without a dad or grandad.
Buried beside my grandpa are approx. eight thousand or so fellow soldiers that died over there, along with the tens of thousands buried all over Europe.
All the men that died in WW2 didn't receive the government benefits you claim the "Selfless Generation" does now.
They deserve the memorial, along with all of us who are their children and grandchildren.