tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post5514943356287051951..comments2024-03-21T14:41:14.622-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Decoration Day 2014FDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-88623300190538915922015-05-22T11:06:14.235-07:002015-05-22T11:06:14.235-07:00Found in a comment on FB page of "Occupy Mari...Found in a comment on FB page of "Occupy Marines"<br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1029293993747510&set=p.1029293993747510&type=1&permPage=1\<br /><br /><br />bbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-13849871482337263552014-05-31T14:54:39.167-07:002014-05-31T14:54:39.167-07:00Much love, Chief.Much love, Chief.BigFredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10442240891955984577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-2532184024541477762014-05-27T16:09:16.593-07:002014-05-27T16:09:16.593-07:00Yep. I have no problem with honoring the imperial...Yep. I have no problem with honoring the imperial legions for their work; one can serve well and honorably doing the business of empire, tho I personally don't like the idea and wish we'd knock it off.<br /><br />But the pretense that we served "defending freedom" and "peace"...well...maybe the guys in the silos and the subs and the bombers that kept watch over the Soviets during the Cold War, yeah. <br /><br />But those of us who killed Panamanians and Grenadians and Lebanese and Iraqis? <br /><br />Not so much.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-48042032038485651942014-05-27T14:57:40.890-07:002014-05-27T14:57:40.890-07:00There is honor and duty in that (= service). But n...<i>There is honor and duty in that (= service). But not in pretending it is what it isn't, and not in fooling oneself in what that service was for.</i><br /><br />Precisely -- it's the pretense that bites me.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08839236994990699117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-62253677274021423102014-05-26T22:36:29.713-07:002014-05-26T22:36:29.713-07:00Labrys: I'm fortunate in having many friends w...Labrys: I'm fortunate in having many friends who DO give a damn. But I'm also afraid that many of them have bought into the VFW/American Legion postcard of the Hero Veteran, Defender of Liberty.<br /><br />I can ignore the commercial crap. It's the well-intentioned friends that silently grate me.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-2986381662320825212014-05-26T22:33:31.520-07:002014-05-26T22:33:31.520-07:00The thing is, Leon, for all that there seems to me...The thing is, Leon, for all that there seems to me to be a vast ignorance of what those soldiers or veterans did and do.<br /><br />Fortunately I haven't seen much of the usual "Land of the Free Because of the Brave" shit this year, or had more than one person talk about how they were "grateful for our peace (or freedom)" because I know damn well that I, and nobody else I served with, served or fought for peace or freedom.<br /><br />We served our nation's interests, we fought where we were told was in our nation's interests, but peace and freedom had no damn thing to do with that. We were, most of us, imperial grunts in service to the policies of an empire-in-all-but-name.<br /><br />There is honor and duty in that. But not in pretending it is what it isn't, and not in fooling oneself in what that service was for.<br /><br />That so many of my fellow citizens do just irks the shit out of me and does so more every passing year.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-92033676967344806952014-05-26T14:06:48.621-07:002014-05-26T14:06:48.621-07:00My main issue for Memorial Day and Remembrance Day...My main issue for Memorial Day and Remembrance Day is that the bulk of those who don't pay attention to history - they pay attention to soldiers and veterans for exactly one day before consigning them to the dumpster of political props or national penis measuring. <br /><br />If we did a better job of getting people to appreciate history - all of it, not just military history, then mayhaps the overflow of (I feel rather empty) praises and then forget them again.<br /><br />But this just might be me in Canada where very very few people have a personal connection to soldiers (whereas in the US it seems every second person knows someone personally in the service/veteran).Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15715768191516712688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-54342564291212582542014-05-26T09:57:18.927-07:002014-05-26T09:57:18.927-07:00Isn't it a sad thing, that all I can think on ...Isn't it a sad thing, that all I can think on Memorial Day is how much I miss the draft? Because at least then MORE of the American public kind of HAD to give a damn about where the government was starting a war and why.<br /><br />Now...with the price of guns doing the talking being borne by such a small percentage of citizens, it's all car and mattress sales.Syrbal/Labryshttp://www.herlanderwalking.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com