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Posted on 07/27/2009 8:53:18 PM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman
You appear to have lived. So why do you talk like a bum, who remembers only the war he fought in and how he was wounded and suffered, yada yada yada?
There you go again, people who fight wars a bums.....
I hope all the vets pay close attention.
No I said YOU decided to talk like a bum. Brother, that war you fought is done. Over. When will you get over it?
I learned from my granddad not to hang out with men who have no further goal or highpoint of their lives — by their own harping and carping — then a war they once fought in. I also learned that men of real courage capable of heroic acts don’t say “I’m better than you because I’m a wounded vet (or war hero, or ex-POW, etc. etc.).” Such men take away from the honor of all.
We each have a job to do, and many jobs have risks in doing them. My granddad taught me that no man is a better or worse man for fighting in a war. He taught me NOT to buy into the common idea that military service is somehow more special than any other job that MUST be done so that we all can live in peace.
There are many good men like him.
Tell me — you have a good family, a successful business — why do you harp on your wounds and demand I give you respect because you got them? I can give you no more or less respect than I give anyone who got hurt when they were doing an honest job.
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