Posted on 04/28/2006 12:31:47 AM PDT by Panerai
Local war heroes and conservative bloggers say they don’t need Canadian anti-war rocker Neil Young around, anyhow.
Young’s new album, “Living With War,” with its call for President Bush’s impeachment, is being dismissed as a feeble blast at the war by a wrinkled hippie whose life span has exceeded his relevance.
Marine Lance Cpl. James Crosby of Saugus, who pushed for legislation to aid wounded soldiers, said the men and women fighting in Iraq, and the ones who came before them, are buying Young’s freedom of expression.
“People are going to have their opinion,” said Crosby, who lost the use of his legs to shrapnel wounds in Iraq. “We have rights because we fought in wars, not because we didn’t fight in wars.”
Crosby said he does not condone war, but considers it necessary to preserve freedom and defend the nation.
Braintree Marine Sgt. Timothy Connors, who earned the Silver Star in fierce house-to-house fighting in Fallujah, was outraged by the Canadian’s political publicity grab.
“That’s disgusting. . . . It’s worse than any lie that could be told,” said Connors, who blasted his way into a building in a bid to retrieve a dead comrade’s body. Although the album currently is being made available for a free download, Connors said, “Is Mr. Neil Young trying to make money off the backs of dead people?”
Meanwhile, blogger “Allegra” wrote on Freerepublic.com,“That decrepit old hippie isn’t ‘Living with War.’ He’s cooling his heels in Canada. The troops . . . they’re ‘living with war.’ The Iraqis and Afghans are ‘living with war.’ We civilians over here are ‘living with war.’ ”
RWR8189 noted wryly on Freerepublic.com, “It seems that Mr. Young does not abide by his own advice that ‘(it’s) better to burn out, than to fade away.’ ”
Ping!
In the old days a good heroin overdose was the best way for old rockers to go out
Yer famous....
}: >)
What did he have? One song that was popular?
Never heard it put any better than that.
God bless this young man.
"He has two sons with cerebral palsy: Zeke, born by a relationship with actress Carrie Snodgress, and Ben (with Pegi Morton)."
"..Carrie's son Zeke by rocker Neil Young was born with cerebral palsy. She and Young split in 1975 after four years. Young married in 1977 and the next year had a second son named Ben, who also had cerebral palsy. Carrie later sued Young for child support in 1983. Young was ordered to pay Carrie $10,000 a month and up to $300,000 on a home for mother and child..."
Looks like Neil was a deadbeat Dad, or would have been had he not been sued.
Oh, that is too good a flame to leave unnoticed...
Holeeeee Wow!
Are reporters really interested in blogs, or is this another round-about way of the press talking about themselves?
(...assuming they are active posters on the actual or competing webpages.)
to quote Skynyrd...
"...and I hope Neil Young will remember / A southern man don't need him around anyhow..."
Speaking at the MilBlog Conference 2006 http://www.militarywebcom.org/MilBlogConference/ I offered what I saw as the most important value of MilBlogs and MilBloggers, drawing upon the Vietnam experience of trading military victory for political defeat. Walter Cronkite led a media offensive against not only the Vietnam War, but against the military service itself. Those who doubt that should consider Cronkite’s own description later in his career.
“In the 1960’s, we were still a country shaped by World War II and a thoroughly plausible conviction that America had helped rescue the world from evil. Now, a new evil loomed. If we had lost the peace once by failing to confront Nazi aggression in Europe, we would win it now by confronting communism everywhere. Many of us, who had been young war correspondents in World War II, at the beginning of the Vietnam involvement saw a clear continuity of American purpose. The debate over Vietnam became bitter because it challenged my generation’s most important assumption of World War II: That the American power was an unwavering instrument of moral good.”
Now, according to Cronkite and all those who shared his twisted view, the battle against communism was nonsense and the military was different.
The battle was not to be against communism, but clearly against America’s own military by the sole arbiters of information flow. The battle was engaged against John.
That offensive, launched in living rooms and coffee shops from coast to coast, went unchallenged from military service members in the field. There was no mechanism nor the technology for them to rebut or directly dispute the nonsense that the Tet Offensive of 1968 spelled doom for South Vietnam and American involvement there. For, if a credentialed member of the media did not report it, it was never heard or considered.
It was this single caveat that enabled an agenda-driven media establishment to dictate the course of a war, successfully snatching political defeat from the jaws of a military victory.
It was this single caveat that enabled an agenda-driven media establishment to shroud, obscure and effectively steal the honor of honorable men like John, forever altering the course of their lives.
MilBlogs, especially those written in-theater, changed that. Permanently.
Never again will the Walter Cronkites of another day or another war have a monopoly on communication of the ground situation that could lead to disastrous manipulation.
No one, not even an entire culture, can steal a man’s character. They can only cast an illusion.
By Steve Schippert
http://commentary.threatswatch.org/2006/04/stolen-honor-reclaimed/
Bump!
Smooches to you all and let's do lunch, OK?
;-)
Everybody knows Neil is nowhere.
Check you out!!
I had no idea I knew someone so famous!
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