Posted on 08/14/2006 4:58:58 AM PDT by Puppage
(Milford-AP, Aug. 14, 2006 6:13 AM) _ A poster protest in Milford continues with some military veterans taking issues with a poster in the window of a local liquor store.
Some veterans organizations are calling for a boycott of TJs Package store if owner Thomas Jakubisyn does not remove the cartoon poster.
The cartoon depicts a soldier in camouflage and reads: "Out of Work? Undereducated? No Health Plan? Join the Army and see Iraq."
Jakubisyn, a Vietnam veteran, says he has no intention of taking the sign down.
Members of the local Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Vietnam Veterans of America and Military Moms have joined forces and formed "Veterans and Families for the Troops."
One of the protesters says the cartoon feeds into an inaccurate stereotype that American soldiers are less educated and less employable.
A package store is going to do real well under Sharia Law...
I checked on the USS DesMoines (on his hat in the pic) and according to it's website Jakubisyn was a crewmember from 1959-61. Before the Vietnam War really started. Of course that doesn't prove he didn't serve in Vietnam on a different ship or in a different capacity.
Anyone in your area going to do some local FReeping?
What a bunch of jessies.
Back to the Army Again
By Rudyard Kipling
I'm 'ere in a ticky ulster an' a broken billycock 'at,
A-layin' on to the sergeant I don't know a gun from a bat;
My shirt's doin' duty for jacket, my sock's stickin' out o' my boots,
An' I'm learnin' the damned old goose-step along o' the new recruits!
Back to the Army again, sergeant,
Back to the Army again.
Don't look so 'ard, for I 'aven't no card,
I'm back to the Army again!
I done my six years' service. 'Er Majesty sez: "Good-day --
You'll please to come when you're rung for, an' 'ere's your 'ole back-pay;
An' fourpence a day for baccy -- an' bloomin' gen'rous, too;
An' now you can make your fortune -- the same as your orf'cers do."
Back to the Army again, sergeant,
Back to the Army again;
'Ow did I learn to do right-about turn?
I'm back to the Army again!
A man o' four-an'-twenty that 'asn't learned of a trade --
Beside "Reserve" agin' him -- 'e'd better be never made.
I tried my luck for a quarter, an' that was enough for me,
An' I thought of 'Er Majesty's barricks, an' I thought I'd go an' see.
Back to the Army again, sergeant,
Back to the Army again;
'Tisn't my fault if I dress when I 'alt --
I'm back to the Army again!
The sergeant arst no questions, but 'e winked the other eye,
'E sez to me, "'Shun!" an' I shunted, the same as in days
gone by;
For 'e saw the set o' my shoulders, an' I couldn't 'elp 'oldin' straight
When me an' the other rookies come under the barrick-gate.
Back to the Army again, sergeant,
Back to the Army again;
'Oo would ha' thought I could carry an' port?
I'm back to the Army again!
I took my bath, an' I wallered -- for, Gawd, I needed it so!
I smelt the smell o' the barricks, I 'eard the bugles go.
I 'eard the feet on the gravel -- the feet o' the men what drill --
An' I sez to my flutterin' 'eart-strings, I sez to 'em, "Peace, be still!"
Back to the Army again, sergeant,
Back to the Army again;
'Oo said I knew when the Jumner was due?
I'm back to the Army again!
I carried my slops to the tailor; I sez to 'im, "None o' your lip!
You tight 'em over the shoulders, an' loose 'em over the 'ip,
For the set o' the tunic's 'orrid." An' 'e sez to me, "Strike me dead,
But I thought you was used to the business!" an' so 'e done what I said.
Back to the Army again, sergeant,
Back to the Army again.
Rather too free with my fancies? Wot -- me?
I'm back to the Army again!
Next week I'll 'ave 'em fitted; I'll buy me a swagger-cane;
They'll let me free o' the barricks to walk on the Hoe again
In the name o' William Parsons, that used to be Edward Clay,
An' -- any pore beggar that wants it can draw my fourpence a day!
Back to the Army again, sergeant,
Back to the Army again:
Out o' the cold an' the rain, sergeant,
Out o' the cold an' the rain.
'Oo's there?
A man that's too good to be lost you,
A man that is 'andled an' made --
A man that will pay what 'e cost you
In learnin' the others their trade -- parade!
You're droppin' the pick o' the Army
Because you don't 'elp 'em remain,
But drives 'em to cheat to get out o' the street
An' back to the Army again!
If you need help from this Missippi man, it is available but you locals need to get something started.
Notice how the AP gets the story and turns him into a "Vietnam Veteran". The local edition of the story does not say that at all. They keep trying to find another liberal Vietnam vet, so they manufacture one instead.
Another 'fake, but accurate' story from the AP.
I'll remember that if I'm ever a Connecticut local.
Fixed your spelling mistake.
No kidding. Buy elsewhere, keep your funky sign, you two-bit no-good ....
I sent the AP an email for 'clarification' on whether he really is a Vietnam Veteran or not.
Disgusting! First of all. That is all very untrue. The military has many fine people that do have an education and even continue to pursue education while they are in. Health Benefits? I hardly think that is a selling point for recruiters. Not many 18-19 year olds think about health care. I know I didn't. Out of work? I bet that the percentage of people who join the military because they can't get a job is extremely low. Everyone who joins the military today including Air Force and Navy personnel know that there is a chance to go to Iraq so there is no need to scare people with that. A lot even enlist to go to Iraq. BTW, the military is going to make goal this year so the writer can STFU and stuff it where it don't shines. The writer is a trator to the United States IMHO.
If every anti-war "Vietnam vet" had actually served in Vietnam the total deployment would have exceeded the number of troops in Europe at the end of WWII
I know, but I like it here and I don't want to get the boot. Imagine....
He takes stock of his constituency and takes a position.
It would seem that for every person boycotting him, there will be two anti-war customers that will drive out of their way to patronize him.
Either that or he is darn foolish.
The guy is a vet and he owns his own business. He's living proof that the cartoon is pure BS -- he can't even see the irony. That being said, I certainly wouldn't purchase anything from a store that had a sign like that.
there is not a Vn Service or Vn Campaign ribbon on his cap....both of which are authorized for actual and 'technical' Vn Vets.
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