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wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts) Sun May 26, 2019, 08:58 AM May 2019

Just about every Memorial Day I have made an OP like this one. I did not fight in [View all]

Vietnam for your freedom. I fought to keep myself and my friends brothers alive.

The thank you for your service messages started after the Wall was built in Washington. I am glad for the change in tone toward us Vietnam vets because before the Wall we were not treated well.

Yet to thank me for fighting for your freedom is to not recognize that the Vietnam war as are Iraq and Afghanistan wars not about our freedom. They were wars of opportunity and never should have happened.

So we go on year after year lying to ourselves because we can’t admit that we are not fighting for honor and glory and a just cause. We need to tell ourselves that we do.

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Just about every Memorial Day I have made an OP like this one. I did not fight in [View all] wasupaloopa May 2019 OP

K&R. n/t rzemanfl May 2019 #1

I'm too young to have fought (or be drafted) Dennis Donovan May 2019 #2

One of the first guys to figure that out was General Smedley Butler. 3Hotdogs May 2019 #3

Precisely Sherman A1 May 2019 #4

And, General Butler blew the whistle on the attempted coup against FDR Dennis Donovan May 2019 #5

Thank you for your honesty FakeNoose May 2019 #6

Excellent post. I really don't think we've had a war about freedom since WWII. Hoyt May 2019 #7

The warmongers drape themselves in the flag ... Martin Eden May 2019 #8

Yes TimeToGo May 2019 #9

It is all the more sad because those we morn would still wasupaloopa May 2019 #12

Truly TimeToGo May 2019 #13

Bullshit Dutchman99 May 2019 #10

Ah, I see you failed to actually read wasupaloopa's post. Try again. nt Hekate May 2019 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author HopeAgain May 2019 #11

Message auto-removed Name removed May 2019 #14

Thanks, upa, for making it home and for reminding us of the truth... Hekate May 2019 #15

Dulce Et Decorum Est -- from 101 years ago Hekate May 2019 #17

Ever notice that we now only ever pick on people we think won't fight back? Aristus May 2019 #18

You should post it on Veteran's day pintobean May 2019 #19

I do wasupaloopa May 2019 #20

But what if they could speak to you from the grave. wasupaloopa May 2019 #21

You don't speak for them. pintobean May 2019 #22

Maybe the dead like for him to speak for them, you don't know Beringia May 2019 #24

USAF 1974 - 1982. akraven May 2019 #23