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I want to hear one person quote anything that anyone from the Administration has said negative about Murtha. I have plenty of negative comments about him, but I don't count.

Murtha had been a critic of the current Iraq war in 2002, before it started?

"I won't stand for the swift-boating of Jack Murtha," Kerry said. The Democrats won't stand for taking Murtha's words seriously, which I take to be the real meaning "swift-boating."

Murtha himself declared, "All of Iraq must know Iraq is free -- free from United States occupation." I propose that Murtha go to the White House and throw John Kerry's medals over a fence at the Capitol in protest of the American "occupation" of Iraq, and that John Kerry then step forward to defend him from those of us who stand at the ready to "swift-boat" Murtha.

Who Cares About MSM When Blog Steams The Media

My granfather taught me that it is NOT a man's military service that defines him, that the military is NO special badge of honor. It's a job, a duty, like a million others we all do to keep our nation healthy and safe. We don't give great honor to sewage treatment plant operators, to dump truck drivers, to restaurant cooks and grocery clerks -- but anyone who does his or her job with integrity and diligence is just as deserving of honor. My grandfather never joind the American Legion, even when they wanted to name the post after him, he never publicized his medals, he almost never talked about his servce. The construction work he did when he came home was more honorable to him, and his greatest joy was his last job as school custodian for a K-3 elementary school.

I'm sick of men like Mutha, McCain, Kerry who use their military service like some great honking badge of honor we all have to bow down to.

We all serve in our own way, and that service no matter what it is can be and often is a greater service to our nation than military service. Military service is not the be all and end all of honorable service. It is one, and can be a good one, but there are many -- I know too many, we know too many -- who where dishonorable before they served, while they served and after they served. Kerry comes to mind, as a public example. We also know men and women who served very honorably, yet in later life became ammoral, corrupt, vile.

It is not what you do and it is never what you have done, it is always what you are NOW. Is a person now honorable?

It is helpful to remind a person how has taken some dubious current undertakings of the times he/she was more honorable, or to point out honorable deeds done by others -- but to me, honors should stop there. We all have lives. Lives to life. Not lives that have already have been lived.

Except for the dead and seriously wounded on battlefields -- those I will always find occassion to honor.