Posted on 05/29/2005 4:50:40 AM PDT by beyond the sea
By the way, where is Dan these days...
You mean since Danny sunk the sixty minutes, too, ship? Probably languishing on a soup line somewhere...the Bush Economy being the worst economy in a hundred thousand years and all....
DO NOT HURT YOURSELF!
PUT ON SOME CHARLIE DANIELS,JOHNNY CASH OR WHOEVER!
HAVE A STEAK ON THE GRILL.
KEEP THE T.V. OFF!
GODBLESS OUR COUNTRY,TROOPS AND PRESIDENT.
Just see our SBVFTT who having laid down the exterior accoutrements - their arms and uniforms - three decades ago; rose up in testimony to the truth when an interloper cast his hypocritical and traitorous hand towards our highest office. They honored their Oath... for you, for me, and for the whole country.
Our Nation, our People & our warrior kin deserve nothing less... I therefore fear no enemy, be they from beyond our shores or be they a treasonous fifth column from within... and if in my imperfect and humble humanity I should sometimes feel doubt, these same thoughts quickly dissipate as I remember that even as I am imperfect, I & all other Vets Stand upon the shoulders of Giants who have come before.
God Bless America. God Bless & Keep our warrior kin who today carry the torch that has been handed to them and whose beginning flames beckon through the ages back to our birth in 1776, and beyond. God give us the wisdom to honor their devotion, so that our children may grow to be wise, strong and Free Americans.
CGVet58
Amen, brother.
Tell that to the one-half of Europe that was freed because Franklin Roosevelt led an army of liberators, not occupiers.
Tell that to the lower half of the Korean Peninsula that is free because Dwight Eisenhower commanded an army of liberators, not occupiers.
Tell that to the half a billion men, women and children who are free today from the Baltics to the Crimea, from Poland to Siberia, because Ronald Reagan rebuilt a military of liberators, not occupiers.
Never in the history of the world has any soldier sacrificed more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers than the American soldier. And, our soldiers don't just give freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home.
For it has been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the agitator, who has given us the freedom to protest.
It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.
No one should dare to even think about being the Commander in Chief of this country if he doesn't believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.
Sen. Zell Miller, from his speech before the 2004 Republican Convention.
Typical GMA presentation.
On Memorial Day, instead of honoring the sacrafice of our fallen soldiers, they had a guest "journalist", and he started out his conversation, saying how DIFFICULT this war was been on the journalist. Can you believe it?
I immediately turned OFF the TV.
GMA missed an opportunity to do something worthwhile. I pray that someday, our whole country will refuse to watch GMA.
ROFL............... I AM going to have a barbecue...... no more TV today............ but they're just going to be excellent, whole casing TUBE STEAKS. I figure that six dozen dogs ought to be enough for a dozen people. What do you think?
;-)
YEP! Be well!
Then GMA and today's "Doonesbury" make excellent bookends. I was already apoplectic this morning over that aging maggot Garry Trudeau, then I read this thread. Damn, I'm gonna have a stroke today at this rate.
we know damn well most of the liberals, media out front, hates the military- so tomorrow is a different type of mourning for these SOB's.
Yes, I believe it.
Bless the vets and their families all the days we live in this country.
LOL. See post 22 for some great advice.
I'm put in mind of The Iliad. In that story, the Greeks and Trojans battle at Troy - and when a captain of the Greeks is killed, the two sides fight over the body. Back in the 1950s that seemed strange to me. But look at what's going on here - the MSM and FR are battling over, not the actual body per se, but the memory of the fallen.The MSM wants to reduce the memory of the fallen to the flag-draped coffin as an emblem of futility. OTOH we want the fallen to be remembered as part of an ongoing, and very much alive an kicking, army of liberation. An army engaged, at painful cost, in defeating the philosophy that the end justifies the means. The philosophy, that is, of which suicidal assassination is the ultimate expression.
The victory of that liberation is expressed in the fact that the assassins are reduced to murdering not presidents but mere Iraqi voters - and that Iraqi voters are legion.
In seeking to promote the flag-draped coffin, the MSM seeks to promote not the fallen hero but the fallen schlub - the fool who went into danger to implement the policies of "Shrub" Bush. We promote the living soldier, in faith with his fallen comrades, as heroic actor on the world stage. Making a difference in a way far more meaningful than the propaganda of the MSM.
Journalism promotes the negative and the supericial because that is its stock in trade. Virtue is not superficial, and memory of virtue is the opposite of journalism. Journalism has to try to undercut Memorial Day.
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
STEP AWAY FROM THE MSM.
I LOVE ALL MY FELLOW FREEPERS AND I DON'T WANT YOU HURT.
THE ONLY WAY TO EAT A DOG IS WITH EVERYTHING ON IT.
CHILI,ONIONS,RELISH,CHEESE,MUSTARD AND SO ON.
IN BUFFALO WE ATE RED-HOTS.
TOAST THE BUNS BECAUSE IT HELPS KEEP THE GOOD STUFF INSIDE.
OFF TO CHURCH,PTL!
HAVE A GREAT MEMORIAL DAY!
GODBLESS OUR VETS!
OUTSTANDING!!
GODSPEED!
U.S.M.C. 74-80
Media bias bump.
No they don't! The MSM is objective, just ask them.
Keep off the TV Nothing!
AMC has had some great old flicks on, and Turner Classics showed HELLS ANGELS yesterday, too!
I did ask the MSM if they were not biased. They said they most certainly were not, and how dare anyone question their morality. They also accused me of being a "plant" by Mr. Rove. Oh well, if they are not prejudiced against Republicans, and President Bush,then I guess I am an astronaut too. ( I always wanted to be an astronaut, it's just because of this inner ear thing I'm not!!) (please note sarcasm and wit!!) Happy Yankee War of Aggression Day to all. (that's what we call Memorial Day down here in Savannah!)
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