Hello all above - agreeing with the article all and all and in comments with "whattheheck's" second post listing several of the things which are daily effecting people that the media and our leaders continue to ignore. Also agreeing with "WillShirley" AND specifically applauding the point that comments are to be respectful and on topic. There's enough paradoxical humor in the situation the U.S. and the world finds itself in without thinking we're funny with name calling and innuendos. Regardless of past votes, connections, contacts, positions,etc --- Shouldn't every U.S. citizen who plans to vote have been told by the media …
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Shout out to Kuya... I've not seen it said better than that!!! Deep bows and thanks!
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Hello Natalie... Responding to comments you made above. I didn’t look at as this as something, “to get a venue for people to vent and get support they can't get elsewhere, but to paint a distorted picture of the typical experience by, and attitude of, the American soldier in Iraq,”... I felt it was a part of the war story needing telling now. Not many years from now in an action movie. These things (historically) are a part of war. For that reason I think even saying “vent”, or “get support” mean a very different thing to someone who has faced …
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Hello ProudUSMCWife: This must be the point in the article above you took exception too. Would you be willing to explain your response based on my questions below? Jon Michael Turner, a Marine from Burlington, Vt., offered the most dramatic—and most graphic—testimony. He stood and tossed his medals into the crowd, yelling, “Fuck you, I don’t work for you no more.” A machine gunner in Anbar Province, Turner showed videos of a 500-pound laser guided missile hitting Ramadi and of his unit machine-gunning the minaret atop a mosque. He showed digital photos of a mutilated body in a car after it …
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Thanks ProudUSMCwife that was the clarification I wanted. You didn't actually say Jon Michael Turner wasn't there in your first post so I wanted it spelled out clearly. You have the benefit of your husband who was there and you have seen the videos themselves with his perspective. I haven't seen the videos for comparison and so now I'm assuming what Jon Michael Turner showed and what you've seen are the same videos. If they are the very same videos then per your husband, who was there, Jon Michael Turner is lying and misrepresenting. That would be wrong and he needs …
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Natalie – I do love analogies and mine too are usually imperfect. Perhaps more so when dealing with issues of war and all the layers of meaning, personal experience, motivators like money involved, and the FACT that it’s a life and death issue. I’m thinking that if anyone were to build an analogy which closely followed a similar path to our current dealings in Iraq, from first mention to today, the plug would be pulled and a redo called, investigations into who said and did what etc. Some how we’ve allowed this and now the only answer seems to be drive …
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Voluntary has shown up a few times in this thread... as in it’s an all volunteer force right? I’ll say: MY service thus far has been voluntary! I have repeatedly chosen to stay in the military... By choice... even facing deployment and with a free ticket out... by choice I stay. There are contributing factors and yet thankfully thus far it has been by MY choice. Not all of the troops I’ve personally dealt with, led, or heard about have had that choice. They signed a contract voluntarily. They forgot to read the small, very small print, which said the U.S. …
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