The Fourth of July is the time for patriotic hoohah by national poobahs. So, Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush will no doubt invoke, as he did on Memorial Day at Arlington Cemetery, the “sacrifice” of that “awesome bunch of people.” “It only remains for us,” said Bush that day, “the heirs of their legacy, to have the courage and the character… return to article
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Reader Comments (2)Page 1 of 1 pagesLooks to me to be yet another transparent “high-minded” attempt to in effect say ...... we should never go to war, and we should just abolish our military. Let’s just stay home and hope for the best.
The civilian suicide rate is still higher, (and no doubt since the rate of attacks has fallen off to near boredom levels the suicide rates will go back to their normal much lower than civilian levels) but this is just a tragedy. Can’t have this. Our military men and women, if they insist on forming awful battalions and companies, should be safe and never subject to harm or stress.
The military is not supposed to be a sanctuary, for heaven’s sake. We’ve got a million other areas of society that are, but for some reason they’re not faring any better than than the cold, cruel, uncaring voluntary military.
Perhaps we should be taking lessons from them, instead of implying that their whole operation is misguided and a terrible health hazard.
Posted by Natalie on Jul 4, 2008 at 12:58 AM Funny how so many people are rushing to reenlist in such a depressing, suicidal organization. Wait till they read stories like Joel’s here; no doubt they’ll rush to just get the inevitable over with.
Posted by Natalie on Jul 4, 2008 at 8:31 PM Page 1 of 1 pages -
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