Don’t be a tool.
Don’t be a tool?
Yeah, well I meant what I said when I wrote that I wouldn’t have said it if I thought it was going to cause someone like you so much pain. You didn’t have the grace to either accept the statement or acknowledge it. I don’t know you personally, so I won’t pass judgement on whether that was standard unclassy behavoir or just an oversight on the part of someone still boiling with anger and resentment.
I haven’t been on Free Republic as long as you have, but I do have standards of courtesy that I try to adhere to, because I think that is important.
Have I had some heated conversations on here? Yes, I have. A few of them have got personal too, because I am not going to sit back and accept it from someone.
If I had known there were people like you sitting out there, still simmering and harboring a personal resentment over their perceived treatment regarding this issue, I would have been more diplomatic. My posting history is that of a conciliator, not a emotional button pusher.
And one more thing, Bob J.
You asserted that “What disturbed me was how those who were most shocked by this incident appeared as if they WANTED it to be an act of vandalism.”
I find that assertion extemely offensive, especially since I know many of those people from personal experience at the Gathering of Eagles and Walter Reed Freeps. Some of those people, like me, have loved ones buried at Arlington or immortalized on the wall.
It may have appeared to YOU that these people wanted it to be an act of vandalism, but I maintain that many of these people have a very realistic understanding of what some of these human scum we have to fight for the soul of our country are actually capable of.
It may well be that you have the personal experience as well, or even the military background or underpinnings of some of those same people who you were in opposition to. But your painting them (and me) with a brush like that, especially one so odious, is simply wrong.