That's your answer to Bush spending your tax dollars for a photo op, and keeping the boys away from their families for one more day? Surely you can come up with a reponse more creative than questioning my name.
Andy, From your perspective it may have been a photo-op. But from mine it was something that these men/women will be able to take with them into later life. An acknowledgement of their participation in something (the war) that could possibly change world affairs in the future. I had my chance at war. As I grow older, I just wish I had that feeling that 'what I/We did make a difference'. Call it envy. Call it old age.
On the name thing. I sense you are much more creative than your enumerated nick indicates.