Posted on 01/24/2003 12:13:59 PM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl
http://www.grassfire.net/26/petition.asp?PID=3556246
I know that you, your fellow veterans and patriots have been fighting this battle on the homefront with our leftist press for decades. Well, the battle has been joined. We give notice to the press. Their days of remaining objective in this war are numbered.
Please read #22. I meant to inspire, not depress Freepers...especially our courageous veterans. This was meant to be a kick-butt, not a throw in the towel thread. (^;
Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem.
You can't tell a vet just by looking.
What is a vet?
He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.
He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.
She--or he--is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.
He is the POW who went away one person and came back another--or didn't come back at all.
He is the Quantico drill instructor that has never seen combat--but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.
He is the parade-riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.
He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.
He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor die unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.
He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket--palsied now and aggravatingly slow--who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.
He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being, a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.
He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.
So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say, "Thank you." That's all most people need, and in most cases, it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.
Two little words that mean a lot: "THANK YOU."
It is the soldier,
not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier,
not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier,
not the campus organizer,
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier,
Who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
Who allows the protester to burn the flag.
Praise the Lord....
and pass the ammunition.
I wonder if anyone besides myself has mused about the fact that veterans generally dont "protest", they parade.Funny how some people use their time and expend their efforts in meaningless public protests on what they are "against", when they are not in any real danger of being called upon to defend or explain,in any meaningfull way, their loudly voiced, but cheaply valued, "rights" to free speech.
I am certain more educated FReepers could come up with an actual comparative figure, based on hard facts, but just once-I would like to see the media take into consideration ethics in reporting protest marches, and assuming a pulled out of thin air comparison of 1000 to 1, give those who are active duty or veterans equal time when covering anti-whatever protests.
Televise the protesters by all means, but if they show 10 seconds of 1000 anti-whatevers, show 10 seconds of the one, who shows support of something they actually have knowledge and personal experience of.
All opinions are not of equal value.Often, the 1 voice is a more valuable measure of truth, than the din of the 1000 voices.
Hit the Freeper Foxhole,I dont know how to link it for you.
I dont go everyday, but especially nowadays, it helps sometimes just to know its there.
AntiJen, can you post a link?
Thanks so much for your support!
My prayers are with you all and I say proudly:
GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND GOD BLESS AMERICA.
We share the same sentiments.
This is why I do not want to send anyone of our troops to Iraq. Nukes yes, not troops. A palace a day 'till Saddam sees it our way.
Excellent thread, Ragtime Cowgirl! I've been disgusted by the media bias for some time. That those who are fighting for the freedoms the media loves to abuse, and those who fought before, are constantly subjected to their tripe sickens me. This thread has me grabbing Kleenex.
I'm with you, Johnny.... LET'S ROLL!!
A crying veteran is a powerful motivator.
Americans need to hold the press accountable. The last published poll re. the press was shortly after 9-11, those few weeks when the press was scared sensible. They'd be shocked, I think, at how many Americans would call them traitors and take away their press priviledges today.
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