Memorial Day Thread of Gratitude

[Socks]

Pay your respect.

Thank you.

[Snorkel]

91,000 dead Iraqi civilians and counting whoooo

but at least I can not take fluids on airplanes anymore, that's a bonus

[Verocious]

Do you have change for 10?

[Daddy]

91,000 dead Iraqi civilians and counting whoooo

but at least I can not take fluids on airplanes anymore, that's a bonus

What about WWII?  Should we forget the soldiers who fought in that war?

[Snorkel]

What about WWII  Should we forget the soldiers who fought in that war?

I think we should remember the 8,000,000+ dead under Stalin during the same time more

[Selkie]

91,000 dead Iraqi civilians and counting whoooo

but at least I can not take fluids on airplanes anymore, that's a bonus

Hey at least you can go outside without the risk of being blown apart by a car bomb or shot in the head.

[Snorkel]

Hey at least you can go outside without the risk of being blown apart by a car bomb or shot in the head.

which is why the innocent civilians who are subject to this and have no other choice but to attempt to live lives are far more pitiful than soldiers who signed up for it

think of your best friend dying

and then imagine it happening 91,000 times, none of these times for any good reason

[Classic]

You may be a pot smoking motherfucker, but at least you pay respects. rep;

[Socks]

91,000 dead Iraqi civilians and counting whoooo

but at least I can not take fluids on airplanes anymore, that's a bonus

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. "

Ernest Miller Hemmingway

I will say this; war is a terrible thing, but not the most evil of things, sometimes it is a necessary evil. In any case this is not about getting into a debate about politics. This is about honoring the people that get caught up in them while serving our country.

And to all those men and women who have severed with distinction since even before the official creation of our Union, and to those who still serve, I am grateful for my past, my present and future.




Freedom is not free my friend.

[Commander Fuckass]

wut about the holocaust 

[Snorkel]

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. "

Ernest Miller Hemmingway

I will say this; war is a terrible thing, but not the most evil of things, sometimes it is a necessary evil. In any case this is not about getting into a debate about politics. This is about honoring the people that get caught up in them while serving our country.

And to all those men and women who have severed with distinction since even before the official creation of our Union, and to those who still serve, I am grateful for my past, my present and future.




Freedom is not free my friend.

Ha, "freedom." To me freedom isn't the "right" to go outside and see flashing billboards and other corporate creations selling me things everywhere I look. It's not the freedom to pick Bad Candidate or Worse Candidate in a fucked up 2-party system of a "democratic republic", to be freely bugged and spied on, to possibly be arrested without warrant and imprisoned without trial. To me freedom isn't living to fulfill imbecilic societal notions of "political correctness" or having revised history forced into my head or corporate media giants telling me every untruth imaginable, all the time.

The only difference between the United States and some other country you think has less "freedom" is that you and most people in this country are so in tune with all the patriotic/nationalistic bullshit that you can't even imagine anything but the idea that the United States couldn't possibly not be the best place in the world.

[Socks]

You know, for all your diatribe of what you view as wrongs within our society and nation you overlooked one little thing. I dare say you are still fine and free to do was you please after posting that comment to the world, a luxury which the majority of people around the world do not enjoy.

This thread is not about the United States, and the more abstract implications of it. It is simply about honoring and remembering those common folks that choose the uncommon path and the ungracious duty to protect and serve without asking anything in return from you.

So forgive me but a simple "Thank You" from such a cynic is in order, now get over yourself and some self asserted righteous view. That all flies out the window in such cases, so put it behind and stand besides me as a common American in thanking our true heroes.

[36chambers]

This ignorant patriotism really doesn't need to be here, at least take it to serious discussion.

[Houdini]

It's Memorial Day? I thought it was Labor Day.

[FAMY2]

American Soldier lyrics

I'm just trying to be a father,
Raise a daughter and a son,
Be a lover to their mother,
Everything to everyone.
Up and at 'em bright and early,
I'm all business in my suit,
Yeah, I'm dressed for success from my head down to my boots,
I don't do it for money, there's still bills that I can't pay,
I don't do it for the glory, I just do it anyway,
Providing for our future's my responsibility,
Yeah I'm real good under pressure, being all that I can be,
And I can't call in sick on Mondays when the weekends been to strong,
I just work straight through the holidays,
And sometimes all night long.
You can bet that I stand ready when the wolf growls at the door,
Hey, I'm solid, hey I'm steady, hey I'm true down to the core,
And I will always do my duty, no matter what the price,
I've counted up the cost, I know the sacrifice,
Oh, and I don't want to die for you,
But if dyin's asked of me,
I'll bear that cross with an honor,
'Cause freedom don't come free.
I'm an American soldier, an American,
Beside my brothers and my sisters I will proudly take a stand,
When liberty's in jeopardy I will always do what's right,
I'm out here on the front lines, sleep in peace tonight.
American soldier, I'm an American,
An American,
An American Soldier