-—All those who died to defend the flag have died in vain,-—
I for one would say that the death of any service person (or civilian) who lost their life defending our liberty was not marked by futility. I greatly appreciate the 57 years of freedom they bestowed on me.
Just for your information, my brother served in the US 1st Division, or Big Red 1. He got out just before Desert Shield.
He said that one of his worst days was the day it occurred to him that he had been nothing but a mercenary for US political and business interests. He signed up to fight and risk death protecting the integrity and people of the USA from foreign enemies who would do us harm.
Instead, he said he was nothing but a mercenary for a government that engages of all manner of wars that have very little to do with protecting it. It was a huge eye opener for him to accept.
I for one believe many of our US military have been sent to die and suffer in vain. That does not mean their sacrifice was any less noble than that for any other of the just causes American military have fought, be it WW I or WW II or the Civil War, etc.
A good example is the war on terror. What did it gain us that dropping a small nuke on Kabul and another small nuke on Baghdad would not have gained us. Well, it is likely we could not politically used nukes, but we could have razed both cities as a response to 911.
Instead, we sent thousands of US combat troops into harms way and now you have Muslims murdering Christians in both Iraq and Afghanistan, while Egypt and Libya are run by the Muslim Brotherhood, and will likely turn as radically fundamentalist as Iran.
Who did they free? Who did they help?
Don’t get me wrong, they gave their all and did their best and I have nothing but love and respect for most of the men and women of the US Armed Forces, who do everything that is asked of them right up to the impossible. There is no singular military foe they cannot defeat in short order on the field of battle.
But they have suffered and died in vain to implement a New World Order as directed by our socialist masters. They were cheated, and I hope the people who cheated them burn in hell right down the line, from Daddy and Baby Bush, to Obama and Rapist Clinton and every Senator and Congressman that sent them into the meat grinder knowing that it was NOT in the pursuit of our freedom or rights, even as they were denying us our God given rights with a parade of new abuses from the TSA to no-knock police raids in the middle of the night.
I grieve for our noble US servicemen who died and suffered in vain. I have nothing but scorn and contempt for the greedy, evil monsters that caused it.
Otherwise, Happy DEPENDENCE Day.