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Edited on Tue Aug-31-04 06:16 PM by MrScorpio
I've never been in combat. I've never fired a shot at the enemy, nor has the enemy ever shot at me. I've spent the last 21 years in the Air Force in a one of those jobs where danger isn't common. I'd probably say that the closest that I've been in danger was the 21 months that I served in Korea. That was way back in the 80's.
That's pretty much the nature of our branch of service. There are a relative few of us who meet the dangers of combat first hand.
Sometimes, we come across another one of our fellow airmen who have earned the Purple Heart. It's a beautiful ribbon that's normally at the forefront of that person's ribbon rack. It always invites the question as to how they've earned it. No other medal does that. We find out that the recipient was involved in an terrorist attack, or shot or survived from being too close to an artillery round.
Our only expectation is that we'll hear an interesting story and we never, under any circumstance, doubt that the wearer did not earn that prestigious medal. Not matter how slight or severe the injury, we know that the man or woman possessing a Purple Heart has truly earned it.
That's what so galling about what's happening in New York right now.
That's what so infuriating about what those rat-fuckers are doing in their three-ringed circus of a convention. The utter disrespect for a serviceman who was proven in combat and received wounds in battle, when they profess their respect and admiration for the military, is a penultimate hypocrisy.
This Purple Heart band-aid display is a travesty. Plain and simple.
This is just a just another reason to hate these asshole Republicans.
Why, in God's name, are so many of my brothers and sisters in arms enamored with these fucked in the head replicants? I just don't understand it.
So how do we dump these turds?
Well, to fix this situation I think it's appropriate to paraphrase the great Jack Nicholson, who so cannily said in the movie Batman; "This country needs an enema."
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