I just got done reading parts of George76 post on Hanoi Traitor John Kerry.
This stuff can start getting to one after a while. There is so much dishonor, and deceit. The horrors we are seeing before our very eyes as how these senators and house reps are behaving is beyond the pale of belief.
I did not have to fight in the rice fields of NAM. I stayed home and helped produce ECM pods for our Airforce pilots,Navy and Marine aviators to protect them from SAMs. And later other military programs. It is like dejevue though.
History is repeating itself to a tee.
But now I take it so much more personally. I feel like a lot of us guys here probably do, that we would sign up and go over there and join these magnificant men and women who serve with such honor and committement.
To read the constant good reports about how many of those Iraqi units shall advance in their classification of worthyness, and how they are now effectively taking the fight to their enemy along side our Army and Marines on the ground. HOw in such a short amount of time they shall have the December full democratic election. Everything the POTUS had claimed must be done, is happening before our very eyes. And now these malfactants in their slubbering selfish, dishonorable way are bring everything our guys and gals have died for and got wounded over, to a halt.
Smoothsailing. It is getting tough to want to log in every day and read this stuff. But I guess I shall not stop. People such as visit this site must bear the pains, and assemble hard core balanced information for any who will listen. It is worse to just drop out and say the hell with it all.
antiunion person,this is a reply to Marine_Uncle,but I thought you may want to read it.You asked what one person could do.You've seen the commercials for the Army,"An Army of One".? Each soldier in reality has a skill, it is the combination of the individual skills that make the Army.What is your skill? Together we are the Army.
Marine_Uncle,I know what you mean about the difficulty.One thing about Free Republic that keeps me coming back is the sense of pride and purpose among many freepers.
American pride,American purpose, the qualities we share.
Here we can re-inforce those traits with others we may never meet.For me it adds a dimension to my life that would have been impossible years ago.
My real life away from here is filled with such experiences.I have been fortunate in my friendships and blessed with a fine family.
And to know that I am not exceptional,but others all across this great country have similar lives as me,is reassuring.
I have great faith in my fellow Americans,but I am too old to be naive. Activism has become part of my life.I am much more active in my community than I used to be.I take time to write letters to the editor, to seek out the local veterans, to make sure the politicians know I'm here and watching.
Free Republic has been an asset, and I actually recharge my batteries here so i can go out again tomorrow and slay more dragons.