March 16th, 2003, March 17th, 2003, March 30th, 2003
God bless our troops, America, President Bush and his administration!
Thank God for the safe return of America's hero, PFC. JESSICA LYNCH!
And to the rest of our HEROES, who didn't make it, our hearts are sadden by the price you have paid for your country:
Spc. Jamaal R. Addison, 22, Roswell, Ga.
Pfc. Howard Johnson II, 21, Mobile, Ala.
Master Sgt. Robert J. Dowdy, 38, Cleveland, Ohio
Pvt. Ruben Estrella-Soto, 18, El Paso, Texas
Spc. James M. Kiehl, 22, Comfort, Texas
Chief Warrant Officer Johnny Villareal Mata, 35, El Paso, Texas
Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa, 23, Tuba City, Ariz.
Pvt. Brandon Ulysses Sloan, 19, Bedford, Ohio
Sgt. Donald Ralph Walters, 33, Salem, Ore. Prisoner of War:
Spc. Edgar Adan Hernandez, 21, Mission, Texas
Spc. Joseph Neal Hudson, 23, Alamogordo, N.M.
Spc. Shoshana Nyree Johnson, 30, El Paso, Texas
Pfc. Patrick Wayne Miller, 23, Walter, Kan.
Sgt. James Joseph Riley, 31, of Pennsauken, N.J.
THANK YOU!
To The Pride of America!
Our BRAVE Men AND Women In Uniform!
One person left a couple of links in my journal about certain individuals who feel that it's great for Americans to burn the American Flag.
I wonder if these Americans would have the guts to burn the flag in the presence of ALL the American Soldiers who have served their country. I KNOW not!! I'll bet my bottom dollar that these people have NEVER, nor WILL EVER, join the United States armed forces.
During times of war, this is what separates the men from the mice:
The HEROIC serve their country out of a sense of patriotic duty.
The Flag burner burns the American Flag out of a WARPED sense of patriotic duty.
The actions of an American burning the American Flag, is an EXTREME and VILE action. I just can't understand what they feel they have accomplished by doing so. The majority of Americans find it to be a slap in the face.
"nyarbaggytep" feels I go too far by my calling an American Flag burner a "delicate piece of tissue paper not worth spitting on." I believe my statement is much TOO MILD an insult. The flag is JUST a little piece of cloth, but it signifies so much. Every stitch consists of blood shed by the MULTITUDE of fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, etc., who have sacrificed their lives since the birth of America.
If a man hasn't discovered
something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
This unique country is the melting pot of the world and the home of all cultures, religions, nationalities, and races, of the world. America is the most powerful and envied country in the world.
I am an American and live here in the United States, only by the grace of God. This country has given me everything I could ever hope for and I shall ALWAYS remain GRATEFUL and LOYAL.
The FEW Americans who stoop so low as to burn the American Flag, need to live a couple of months in one of those 3rd world countries. I can assure you that they won't DARE burn a flag there. They'd CRAWL like RATS back to the U.S. at the first opportunity! I can almost assure you that they would never again even think of burning our flag again and would start counting their blessing for being an American.
This quote is PERFECT for Those Anti-American's that bad-mouth the United States and who burn the American Flag:
The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency.
All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity.
But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself,
and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.
The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.
Ralph Waldo Emmerson.
A Vietnam Veteran called "daddy" wrote in my journal and I want to thank him for sharing his experiences while in Vietnam. Instead of giving them a heroes welcome, they were treated horribly. It is men and women such as these who have truly contributed to the United States by putting their lives on the line. "daddy," Semper fidelis!
"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much. Never have the consequences of their misunderstanding been so tragic." - Nixon
All MIA/POWs should have the Purple Heart, because all have paid for it with their lives." - Larry J. Brugh
It is NOT the critic who counts;
not the man who points out how
the strong man stumbled, or where
the doer of deeds could have done
better. The credit belong to the
man who is actually in the ARENA;
whose face is marred by DUST and
SWEAT and BLOOD; who strives
VALIANTLY; who errs and comes
short again and again; who
knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions, and
spends himself in a WORTHY cause;
who at the best knows in the
end the triumph of high
achievement; and who at the
worst, if he fails, at least
fails while daring greatly;
so that his place shall NEVER
be with those COLD and TIMID
souls who know NEITHER VICTORY
nor DEFEAT.
Theodore Roosevelt
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HAS THE WAR ON TERRORISM AFFECTED THE WAY YOU LIVE?
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"It's OK to Burn the U.S. Flag, as long as you wrap yourself in it first"
I love my Daddybear... Thank you for mentioning him. BTW: He was a Navy man, not a Marine ::grinning:: But that's OK... He says it's understood...
Remember folks... FREEDOM ISN'T FREE!
D.O.M.
I rsepectfuly disagree. Let me preface my statement with a little family history. Both of my grandfathers served during WWII, my father served for 22 years, and I have been in the army for the past five years. I love the Flag and still get misty eyed hearing the national anthem. I believe It is a terrible thing for the flag to drag the ground let alone burn. That said, I believe I serve so that, every american can have the right to non-violent protest (among other reasons). This unfortunately means they should have the right to say things I disagree with and do things I might find repulsive. The ideas and beliefs embodied in our flag do not reside there. They reside in in my heart. The flag is but a symbol. When people burn the flag in protest they do not burn my beliefs with it. Would I kick some ass if a protester burned the flag in front of me? No. I would be disapointed and I would be sadened. It actualy bothers me more to see protesters attacking the police.
I agree many of these people need to go live elsewhere for a while. I have found when talking with anti-war people that often thier arguments are naive, and uneducated. I guess I'm lucky to have broader world view than many of my countryman because I moved (a lot) growing up. I lived in Germany in the late 80's early 90's. I have lived history. I was in berlin 3 days before reunification. I believe that people should live elswhere for a while not as punishment but as an education.
(no sarcasm either!!)
It kills me that so many people who use, sometimes abuse, and take for granted their Constitutional rights have no concept of the price paid for those rights. A price THEY never paid. OOOOHHHHH NO, I feel a huge rant coming on; I better stop now.
Thank you for your service to our country.
- shakespearienced
Typical bloody American.
Its refreshing to see somebody who is appreciate of the arms forces and the people sacrificing themselves (and yes I mean the British also). My friend is over there, and he is 24 years old and considered ANCIENT. The average age of the american soldier in Iraq is 19. NINETEEN.
And these are the babies (yes, i still consider them young kids) who are bleeding, fighting, suffering, dying for everybody. People like you and me, and even ingrates who want to burn the flag. They're fighting so that people can have the RIGHT to even burn flags. Hell, if somebody like Saddam was in power, does anybody seriously think he would even BROOK a voice of dissent, much less flag burning?
*amused look*
Rob
how can u support an illegal war run by an un-elected dictator?!
v.apprioate of u to quote NIXON of all ppl...we all know what he was up to.*cough-watergate!cough*
i support the troops-BRING THEM HOME!we were all so quick to leave the bloodied 2oth century behind, and barely 3 years later we start again.havent we learnt ANYTHING about warfare? not even that bombs kill children not dictators? can we bomb america then? bush didnt win the election.is it really the american way to go to war for OIL AND REVENGE?how old are we? 6?im ashamed to be british.
Go back to school and learn something about world markets, trading in the market, and how oil effects it. As well as who has the last reserve of oil. Then you might realize what this war is about. I'll give you a little hint..."Free Market" The Iraqi people get the oil and they get to trade it under a free Iraq. Who other then Saddam loses here?
Dead Iraqi people + Dead Coalition Soldiers + Death of Saddam Regim = the price of Iraq's freedom + justice to their suffering.
Freedom is priceless and so are lives, but that makes sense as to why freedom cost lives.
What doesnt make sense:
Enslavement under Saddam causes so much life suffering and lives that you wouldn't even begin to imagine how greatful you would be just to say what you just said if you were in Iraq before the war. But, yet you feel free to share your uneducated misunderstood point of view.
Didnt you know the world averages at least one war every 20 years? What is 21 some magic number that stops wars all of a sudden? The only cool thing about 21 is you can legally drink in America, and that even may start bar fights.
There is going to be more blood shed in the years to come.
Don't worry tho, the British are ashamed of you too. BTW you can take "cough-watergate!cough* and shove it up your *** because all it proves is why the American Constitution doesn't allow anyone to be above the Law.
Freedom of Speech...aint it great?
I am an american sailor presently forward deployed to assist in operation Iraqi freedom and just wanted to drop a line and say thank you for your support
CTR3 Brown USN
presently onboard USS ANZIO (CG-68)
Typical... It was the same was during Nam...
Just a simple and sincere THANKS! from an old Enterprise Crewman AO2 AW, who is soundly behind you and all who sail with you across the seven seas.
MAY YOU HAVE CALM SEAS AND THE WIND TO YOUR BACK. WHILE YOU ARE IN HARMS WAY, MAY GOD SPEED.
Thank You for Volunteering and serving Proudly!
Its all big talk - support our troops, theyre out there saving out lives and future. I believe a synonym for the above is 'bullshit' You know not of what its like to live under the conditions which your so quick to dismiss, based purely on the bullshit your being told from the TV stations, who in turn, havent lived under an evil regime, and thus know nothing. "From the idiot to the fool" springs to mind.
Personally, ive lived under a regime. There was a distint lack of freedom, there was a distint lack of equality. But actually, it was nothing like what the televisions are spouting back in the UK and the US. And in fact, it wasnt really all that evil. Hugely unfair, hugely baised, but hey - the class system in the UK and US hasnt totally died out either really have they?
Yeah, bring the troops home - safely thank you. But dont support the fucks. The troops are killing people, and isnt that the same as what one Saddam Hussein was doing? Well, we can start a 'war on terror' on the brits and the yanks soon enough.
And more of this "spout forth your bullshit" is largely apparent in the naming of your 'heroes'. JESSICA LYNCH managed to get herself caught, and for one womans sake the special forces go in on their own will, without command or instruction, and put THIER lives at risk to save Jessica.
But Jessica gets named a hero and awarded a medallion, and the special forces are simply sent off with a thank you.
Are you noticing the hypocrisy?
As for burning the american flag, Im disgusted by the person that would do such a thing. (yes, thats right, im NOT anti-american) The flag of any country represents something to be held onto and cherised, and is a symbol of unity the nation over, the whole nation united under one flag and so on. May the people who burn any flags one day realise their stupidity.
And, dear Americans, this is why the world sometimes hate you....
"America is the most powerful and envied country in the world."
Arrogance.
America is the most richest nation in the world mainly due to the fact that in World Wars 1 and 2, and in the cold war, they sold WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (oooh, where did they come from?) to countries like the UK, France, Italy and Germany (see: world war 1 and 2) and WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION to countries like Iraq and Saudi Arabia (see: cold war, wars on russia)
Well done on your riches, it must feel nice to know you made your money by fuelling this 'axis of evil' Actually, seeing as you sold them all weapons, arent you really the ones leading the 'axis of evil'?
Interesting thought. Ponder it sometime.
You also might just find that if it was not for the US entering the War against Nazi Germany it is quite possible that England would have been the next victim of the Blitz Kreig, and then possibly the FIRST victim of the German Atomic Bomb. The German Heavy Water Experiments were farther along than many people realise.
Above the gates at the Nazi Prison Camp in Dacheau the words are carved by the Jewish Prisoners that were liberated by the US Army.
"Those who forget the lessons of the past are doomed to re-live them" I suggest you learn a little History before you continue to make foolish statements.
At first, I didn't want to leave a message, but now, after looking over the most recent posts and comments, I feel I have to. I don't have enough time to comment on every comment directly, and I try to make it short. My post is inspired by all your posts.I will probably not write everything in detail,so feel free to reply and I will if requested.
Whatever a person writes in her lj is his/her own business, still he/she has to understand that public posts are in fact public, and that people will reply.
I have never seen a lj in which people were so unfriendly towards each other and so intolerating of different opinions.
My background: I am European. I am a macroeconomist. I am a politician. I am free.
People in Iraq are not free, and we have to help them. I guess everybody agrees with me here.
They could have been freed with diplomatic pressure.
Now I am asking myself, why were some countries not willing to make this effort? Economic reasons? Political reasons?
Some facts: America will not have any oil left in 10 years if they go on using it the way they do now. 4 years if they only use their own ressources from now on. The Iraq has the 2nd largest ressources in the whole world.
Economy isn't very well in the States. This is never good for the image of a government.
We will see. I hope the US will not try to profit economically from this war. I hope they did what they did because of love to people. But I have doubts. We'll see.
Apart from that, in war there is no winner. Humanity is lost on both sides. I once believed that people from free countries, who are more or less privileged to make up their own mind, to follow social developpment in history and to have the freedom of choice, that those people wouldn't support the right of the strongest, agree that people kill other people. No matter which nationality they are.
lets start with 'preident' bushes election to 1600 pen.ave.Al Gore recieved 539,898 ore votes than bush.fact.so, why is there the wrong preisdent?
in summer 1999 katerine harris, GWBushes campaign chairwoman AND floridas secretary of state in charge of elections paid $4 million to Database technology to remove from floridas voting rollls anyone SUSPECTED of being a former felon.she did this under the blessing of jeb bush, whose own wife was caught trying to smuggle $19,000 worth of jewerly into the USA without paying tax on it...
thats just seting the scene.
the law in florida means that no ex-felon can vote.that means 31% of ALL black man cannot vote because of often only misedemours.black floridans are overwhelmingly democrat-hardly surprising given trent lotts recent comments in favour of segretagion-and on nov.17th over 90% off black florians voted for gore.or rather, those that were ALOWWED to vote.
in a mass fraud perpetrated by the bushes and harris, the company not only removed thousands of black ex-felons from the list, but also THOUSANDS more black voters who had never commited a crime in there lives.Database, a strongly republican firm, removed also ppl with 'simliar names' to actual criminals.an 80% match of info was deemed enough to permantantly remove a eligible voter from the rolls.in total, 173,000 voters were PERMANTLY wiped.this is all documented fact, investigated by the BBC (ah, those darn commies hav infiltrated even the BBC now!)
bush is credited to hav recieved 537 votes more than gore at the polls but mayb the thousands of black voters might hav made a difference? erm, well, yes.
on the actual election night, while reporters on the ground insisted it was too close to call, Fox TV jumped in claiming the election for bush.nothing cud hav been more psychologically damaging for gore, making it look like he was the 1 refusing to concede defeat....but who was in charge of Foxs election coverage? John Ellis, who just happens to be GWBushes 1st cousin.odd, that.
then came the overseas ballots from the miliatry, which generally votes republican.in july 2001 The New York Times showed that of the 2,400 overseas votes counted, 680 were considered questionable/flawed.but if bush got the overseas ballot by a ratio of 4:5, and on that percentage 544 of the votes counted for him shud hav been thrown out, then bushes 'winning margin' of 537 votes goes down to negative 7.
i cud go on about how one of the jugdes in the supreme court worked in the law firm REPRESENTING bush, and how anothers had his wife hired by bush to recruit staff for his adminisation, but neither saw a conflict of interest.but i wont, im off to, erm, eat more peanut butter.outta the jar.rnt i disgusting lol
p.s.oh, playgirl, u asked how it felt to be a person without a country.personally, i think patriotism is waaay out dated an shus go back to, says, the aparthied era where it belongs.cant we all just be proud of our shared humanity?
You are naive if you believe the garnbage you have been spouting and I never used the word liar! It is evident that you believe this "revisionist history".
Youir statement of gores votes... please go back and look up the final talleys, Buss DID get the popular vote.
As for Felons not being able to vote... That is in place in MANY states in the Union, not just Florida. The accusation of Jeb Bush's wife smuggeling was found to be a false report. Totally unfounded.
As for Fox TV if you do more research you will find that CNN was the first news group to jump the gun reporting that Gore took the state with less than 25% of the vote in. MSNBC followed suit and even changed their forcast 3 times.
I heard reports of blacks saying they were not able to go vote cause of Police at near the polling places and all sorts of other excuses... I also heard that there were Domocratic Poll Sitters that were asking the elderly if they understood the ballots... THE same ballots that the Democratic Polling Supervisors AGREED UPON prior to the election as well as the same ballots that were run in newspapers all over the state numerous times PRIOR to the election... Oh yes one more thing THATS why the Election Committee has people IN the voting area to give help when someone does NOT understand all they have to do is ASK.
Dont even go to the Military vote there were thousands of Military votes that were not counted because they were deemed to be invalid cause of identification problems that the Democrats thought up. As for that 680, WHY were they flawed? under WHAAt Guidelines were they decreed to be flawed? A pregnant chad?
Lets face it the Democrats lost their ass pure and simple and they cannot accept it and refuse to accept it.
All in all I still thank GOD that Bust was there to run the show and not Gore... I am sorry I cannot see a tree hugging wimp trying to run this country during a Conflict, he would have the military keeping loggers from cutting the over grown forrests in the North West and would replace all the Hummers with Yugo's If Gore was in there then the country would be run by Tipper just like it was run by Hillary!
i cried when bush was elected.