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Originally Posted by Paul H
Please... please folks.... vote for Barrack Obama so that my dead friends can be brought back from the dead. Also, vote for him 'cause we can bring Changey Mcchangerson and peace to the warmongering world. changey changefuck.
also..... change.
Please list for me, if you would.... how many times you've fought a war in Iraq, how many times you've seen first-hand how much progress has been made, and how many dead soldiers/marines/airmen you know personally. Then, on a scale of one to ten, rate what right you have to use a fucking number as a fitting representaion of my friends' sacrifice. Discuss.
change.
We'll worry about bringing eachother home alive. You worry about hackey-sack. Shut the fuck up.
-paul
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"Paul", when you are/were there, and loose/lost dear friends & comrades, it does really become very personal. I know that, I was there & did that (different war/different time/same thing).
It is personal most definately: but it is NOT exclussively personal: the Nation as a whole has a responsibility to care & become involved; and a responsibility to speak out to the matters at hand.
Unfortunately sometimes "speaking out" is not as reverent as it should be: I was hit in the face with a snowball when in uniform escorting a fallen friend home I stepped off the plane in 1973, that was not very reverent. I was pretty angry, eventually I realized that the thrower was out of bounds & wrong, but in the end the notion & belief that the war was not good for the Nation was the privilage of every American. ...(paul)