Posted on 11/09/2014 12:48:29 PM PST by OL Hickory
Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as “heroes.”
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Every person that enlists or is commissioned in the military agrees that they will follow orders, fight and possibly die for their country. They understand they may die, but they sign up anyway. Some may not think that is heroic, but I feel that the hero designation is not far off the mark.
Some military jobs are more heroic than others. I was an officer on a modern pig boat. I don’t feel that was heroic. The author mentions those carrying a gun - I say they are the most heroic of them all.
Little David is a complete pant load who writes critical studies of Springsteen and John Mellencamp. Nuff said.
Anyone has a right to make a hero out of anyone they please. Liberals would like to take that right away. They would decide who are heroes will be..... The HELL with that!
He is trying to offend; ignore him...
Yet he sees no problem in calling every black helpless victims of racism.
Childish indeed.
Are=our... sigh
I was part of a large group of patriots who welcomed five bus loads of WWII vets to their Memorial in DC yesterday. They were there courtesy of Honor Flight.
They were white, black, female and male. Some were in wheelchairs. Some wore their medals and uniforms. All these men, whether or not they saw hard battle are absolute American heroes and deserve to be treated as heroes.
As each one made his way off the bus to the memorial, they came through our gauntlet. Handshakes, waves, smiles and tears. Some of these guys were overwhelmed that people would remember their service. One man in the crowd shook each veterans hand with the words “A grateful nation thanks you to your service.”
I dare anyone to attend such an event and the. Echo the idiocy that these guys are not heroes.
John Kerry , who served in Vietnam might be a source for this type of thinking.
Go back to the country that you belong in, David Masciotra.
You’re a good woman MrsMel!
I recently had the pleasure and privilege of enjoying a two hour conversation with a hero of mine, Jesse Jackson.
I told Jackson that the work he did, along with Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Medgar Evers, and others, not only freed black people in the United States from a brutal system of apartheid, oppression, and exploitation (work that continues), but also saved me – a white man born in 1985 – from inheriting the role of occupier, oppressor, and executioner.
You can tell he hates his whiteness.
I am using the definition of the word.
You are using another. That’s fine.
Sure. That's why we have none of the oil resources and turned their country back over to them with a freely-elected government. Some empire.
The last time the U.S. military deployed to fight for the protection of American life was in World War II
Ah, no. Discounting Iraq - and I don't, but the argument in favor is too long for this thread - there was a Taliban government whose protected guests murdered 3000 Americans in New York. Taking that down was very definitely protecting Americans in a very literal sense.
Wars that are not heroic have no real heroes, except for the people who oppose those wars.
And out comes the 70's retread. No, Dave, stomping your feet in a country where your right to free speech is protected is not "heroic". All too often it's narcissistic, self-aggrandizing, and contemptuous of anyone who disagrees. This article, for example.
I prefer to call Salon moonbats cowards
I also agree to some extent. Like “racist,” the word “hero” has become so overused that its meaning has been devalued. I have been in action with many fine Marine Corps infantrymen, and their performance was typically magnificent. But the Corps’ high standard was expected of us, and we fought to live up to it. I’ve only known a handful of men who were true heroes; most of them are dead, and their memory is diminished when we call everybody a hero. But these days, everybody gets a trophy.
I remember 1966 when the libs were having a hissy fit because too many US soldiers killed in South Vietnam had Hispanic names.
“Give jackass a keyboard - preferably a minority or white guilt ridden jackass - let him fumble about searching for a point”......
What an assclown.
Rangers Lead the Way.
IBTZ!
Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him.
Put a hoodie on preferably a black man, give him a gun and
Obama, Jackson, and Sharpton will worship him.
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