Great response and right on the nose. We lost 25,000 troops, most of them in first 3 days of the Battle of the Buldge. One thing Zell didn't mention was what happened to the survivors of the men that raised the flag on Iwo Jima. The 3 of them were brought back to states and used to help raise war bonds. Two of them lived to a fairly ripe age but Ira Hayes who was a Pima Indian only lived another 10 years. He couldn't live with the guilt of being considered a hero when only 5 out of his platoon of 45 lived to see the end of the battle. He became an alcoholic and died in 1955 after a night of drinking. As he was passing out he was mumbling "my good buddies".
That Kerry could consider himself a hero makes me ill.
Ditto.
Far, far, far, far better men than I have fought and died so I could have the priveledge of sitting here at my computer sipping coffee. The biggest problems I have right now are my bills and trying to get my daughter more interested in her schoolwork. That my "problems" are so mundane and comparatively non-existent is a tribute to the brave men who laid down their lives for our freedom.
Lurchface is not one of them.