Posted on 06/30/2008 10:46:10 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
You did ask for the personal opinions of others what their definitions of 'hero' and 'patriotism' are. You have now had numerous answers from veterans of the armed services on both points. You have rejected every definition offered.
You say that you are here to learn and to talk so wouldn't it be fair, after receiving so many generous replies from men who risked their lives to gain the experiences you now want to benefit from, to give your definitions of 'heroism' and 'patriotism?' Are you willing to give anything to the conversation or are you just here to take from others?
He won't talk about it except to say he did his fifty missions, the last few of which were food drops in Holland. But, somewhere he found the courage to suck it up and crawl into that plastic bubble and defend his airplane FIFTY TIMES!!!
After the war was over, he went back to Minnesota, married his sweetheart and raise four pretty good kids. At 88 years old, he is still living with his now wheelchair-bound wife and taking care of her. They finally, just yesterday got a power seat and ramp in their van.
Now, that is a hero.
PS; I know this because I am married to their oldest daughter.
Frankly, I think this young-un just heard from the other side for the first time in his/her life. Well educated, well heeled, and trained at America's own madrases, Princeton and Harvard.
That there are millions of Vets proud of their service.....probably never dawned on him/her before....
Well, I'm not a combat vet (though a brother was) and I DO disagree.
The willingness to show up and take the consequences seals the deal.
And what is Code Pink's agenda?
And why do you define heroes in such a way that they cannot exist by your standards?
Heroes exist, through great deeds, great works or even in their great ideas.
They exist all around us and most never get the recognition they deserve because of people like you that would prefer that they don't exist
But they do....
I’m curious. What was our little pacifist’s last post? Did he finally jump across the line with both feet or was it just the cumulative effect of his repugnance that got him zotted?
It was a meltdown of sorts about how he believed there were no heroes because everyone has an agenda nothing spectacular or anything just one long sentence without any sentience.
Just the sort of gibberish one would expects from a f rated troll.
Rodger the F rating. It’s more entertaining when they come right out and accuse us of being controlled by Karl Rove and that aliens in UFOs have instructed them to come here and expose the truth to the world. If they can’t be sane they can at least be fun.
I was thinking a waste of skin.
WELL I’LL JUST BE . . . . . . . . .
So is hard partying and driving while under the influence of alcohol...but, considering the amount of flight time he did in the F-102 versus the amount of time spent partying, I really believe that the latter of the two was more hazardous to GWB--the third worst (after Carter and Clinton) president of my lifetime!
Quite a few folks on my nada list get banned eventually. You can kind of tell who’s going to flip out.
I notice that you have a number of long time FReepers on the nada list who are still currently active. I also see that I'm not on it. What exactly does 'nada list' mean? What are the criterion for getting listed?
I put “Yearningtounderstand” on yesterday. I thought he was a poser.
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