I'll take "How much longer until that asshat GWB leaves office?" for $600, Alex.
If you can't respect and honour the young folks who make up the majority of your fighting military and put their lives on the line for you, then who are you as a human being? I don't care what your views of war are, nor do mine figure into this, but other than the usual few bad apples, and of course their civilian leaders, you just don't shit on your protectors, they who are willing to put their lives on the line for yours. I know that stories of their medical facilities have been in the news, too - I'm not ignoring that or other discouraging military stories, I'm just pointing out this particular story as just one example of the US military's betrayal of those brave young folks who thought they were doing the right thing.
I was doing some noontime CNN.com reading and came across this story. Maybe there's more to it than I'm seeing, since, as I said, I am not American, and therefore not up on all the news to do with this subject, but the last lines of this story (GWB's negative response to the subject) made me sick, for way too many reasons to list.
]]>in my post on remembrance day, I mentioned that there was a movement to push the government to grant the last canadian world war one soldier a state funeral - well, things are moving ahead, according to this ctv.ca report (and I'm happy to see that they've updated the report since I read it earlier today - man, that site needs a proofreader/editor of some kind, and quick - every day I read at least one story there that has grammatical/spelling/formatting problems in it - yes, I am picky, not that you'd know it from my vox posts)
the government and the military bureaucracy each do a lot of silly things, but every once in a while, they shine - now if only we could get them to do more for veterans while they're still alive...
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