Thanks for the ping, Coop. LX, nice bit about Korea in here.
I couldn't read it all, my screen got blurry.
I got a little past this, and will come back later to finish the last 3-4 paragraphs.
'But liberals, ever fond of quagmires, remain sunk in their narcissist perceptions. A recent best selling book, Keeping Faith, written by Frank Schaeffer, father of a Marine from Massachusetts, detailed how shocked and stunned their circle of “Volvo driving friends” were when they learned that the young man had enlisted. They treated it as a tragedy, as if he had been stricken with a fatal disease, or involved in an awful traffic accident. “What happened?” they were asked quietly at cocktail parties. “He had so much going for him.” The implication was clear: only losers join the military.'
Every parent I know has had this happen, myself included.
GOD BLESS THE DC FREEPERS AT WALTER REED EVERY FRIDAY WHO TOOK CONTROL OF THE ENTRANCE AND GAVE PEACE TO OUR WOUNDED!
Ditto that.