Seeing that I'm very proud of a full head of hair at almost 60, I'm loathe to shave it. Besides, any man who claims medals for superficial wounds after seeing badly wounded,true American Heroes is a p*ssy and coward in my book. Maybe someday I'll tell you what I really think of them and not hold back.
Nam Vet
Another good example for the battered woman comparison in post 9.
"Seeing that I'm very proud of a full head of hair at almost 60, I'm loathe to shave it."
LOL! Congratulations! But it wouldn't bother me, I like men with little to no hair ! )
"Besides, any man who claims medals for superficial wounds after seeing badly wounded,true American Heroes is a p*ssy and coward in my book."
There's a point I hadn't seen, it's almost as if it was so obvious that I didn't want to see it. Now that you've made it, my madmeter has gone over the top, as I consider the use the troops at WRAMH he claims to visit to make his points. I have a rather large pet peeve at anyone who uses the dead to score political points-to the point that I did not let go of local and corporate media and their public forum until such time as it was understood that that was viewed as dirty pool.
This, naturally, translates to an even larger pet peeve at anyone who uses the wounded to score political points. Which, naturally, translated to support for the FReepers who have been so gracious to counter-protest Code Pink every Friday at Walter Reed.
Murtha can visit these troops, and cry about it, and then use it for political gain, but wouldn't see his own NG unit off, visit, or welcome them home.
And WHY is he still yapping about his plan after a 403-3 vote????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Unless, I suppose, one had political aspirations. Then the trick was to subjet oneself to danger just long enough to risk getting a scratch on the cheek or catching a high-velocity rice kernal in the posterior (courtesy of one's own ill-tossed hand grenade). Then a Purple Heart was just one more item for one's resume and one whined until a superior relented and approved the award out of weariness of hearing the whine.
I know men who were grievously injured in Vietnam who were awarded Purple Hearts. Murtha's and Kerry's awards are blots on the history of that noble medal.
Maybe that's why Murtha got all emotional and threatened recently to give another wounded vet his own Purple Heart if the vet wasn't awarded one in his own right. Maybe Murtha's conscience got the better of him when he contrasted the plight of a deserving soldier with his own imaginary or real superficial wounds.