US airways gets bad press -attendant wouldn't hang vet's decorated jacket in 1st class closet

[Nuclear Unicorn]

109. Remind us again why we should care about you.

I always thought, as a Progressive, people looked out for each other. Yet as Progressives we assume we should rally around you whenever you might be in need.

What hardships do you endure as part of your daily duties? Did you volunteer for them?

People are all cozy cool with millionaire politicians giving $200,000 speeches and some how claim the politician "earned" it.

Yet, here are young people giving up their time, enduring hardships that most of us would blanch at just to hear described. Hunger, cold, heat, exhaustion, sleep deprivation, injuries, insects, etc. only to be shipped off at the whim of millionaire politicians to face death -- or worse -- or to see their friends, the only people who can truly relate to them, violently torn from them.

But to hell with them, right? They volunteered, right?

If it was any other of our fellow Americans -- our neighbors. We would be concerned. We would be outraged over their treatment and the conditions they live in. They do what they do because they believe it is the right thing to do.

Yeah, I get it: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, the usual suspects and now Obama. Don't take your rightful anger at the millionaire politicians out on the soldiers. The troops endure more than you ever would --

-- and you're the one that voted for the politician that sent them off.

People take statements like yours and hold you up as the definer of Progressive attitudes towards the troops and they resent you -- and through you, us -- because you are insulting their children, spouses, parents, friends and neighbors. And those are the only people the troops are fighting for. Perhaps this is why Progressives can never move to a more populist wave movement. We're too busy insulting the people we claim to speak for.

You don't have to say "Thank-you" but at least try not to be a jerk about it.