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oldsarge54

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4. They Screwed UP
Mon Aug 27, 2012, 04:49 PM
Aug 2012

I was brought up in the military, back when the Wall was built, and the Cuban missile crisis caused our evacuation out of Berlin. I served 25 years in the Air Force myself, pulling a half tour in Nam until Kissinger said go home, we won. I was always taught to be a good guest, EVEN IN A COMBAT ZONE. We were in Afghanistan to save the country, preserve their culture from the overzealousness of their own right wing crazies. The GIs were in the wrong, both by regulations, and morally wrong. Cheering what they did and calling them heroes or martyrs on destroys the meaning of USA.

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