tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post3126011582387888951..comments2024-02-21T03:20:21.898-08:00Comments on An Inch At A Time: Reflections on the Journey: Belated Blog on Veteran's DaySUSAN RUSSELLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01795717638621668638noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-35996726398575608292007-11-13T14:32:00.000-08:002007-11-13T14:32:00.000-08:00I wasn't aware that only veterans are allowed to h...I wasn't aware that only veterans are allowed to have an opinion on war and politics. I'll have to ask the several veterans in my family what to think from now on. And I'll ask a friend of ours, who is suffering from severe PTSD after serving honorably in Iraq. Our government, which sent her there, now refuses to give her the health care and benefits she needs. (This is after she and her Suzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03529580138314011952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-17042257563186601862007-11-13T09:56:00.000-08:002007-11-13T09:56:00.000-08:00The alarming thing is that the American people are...The alarming thing is that the American people are NOT in clinical depression. They think that it's just peachy-keen to torture brown folks on the slimmest of pretexts. I swear, if the Abu Ghraib pix hadn't included the woman soldier, 90% of the US population would have cheered the pix without a second thought. <BR/><BR/>Noone doubts that torture occurs in war - but to give a preemptive pass to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-3707731432402243012007-11-13T09:46:00.000-08:002007-11-13T09:46:00.000-08:00My father-in-law is a WWII vet and served in Afric...My father-in-law is a WWII vet and served in Africa and Italy. He was quietly on the mark when he spoke the following (I hope I remember verbatim with only slight paraphrase):<BR/><BR/>"If we had fought WWII under today's rules of engagement,under today's level of sacrifice, under today's opinion of acceptable military and civilian loss, under the glare of expert reporters and under today's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-21594109820863351212007-11-13T07:15:00.000-08:002007-11-13T07:15:00.000-08:00In the six years of compromising our principles si...<I>In the six years of compromising our principles since 9/11, our democracy has so steadily been defined down that it now can resemble the supposedly aspiring democracies we've propped up in places like Islamabad.</I><BR/><BR/>Pakistan is hardly an ideal democracy, but it's a big step up from where it was. Give them time. Even 20 years ago someone like Musharraf would have felt free to simply RonFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13533867151466876449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-2095297429744928982007-11-13T07:09:00.000-08:002007-11-13T07:09:00.000-08:00Just couldn't resist politicizing Veterans' Day, e...Just couldn't resist politicizing Veterans' Day, eh?RonFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13533867151466876449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-47516015902412898692007-11-12T21:20:00.000-08:002007-11-12T21:20:00.000-08:00IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blowBetween the cro...<I>IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow<BR/>Between the crosses row on row,<BR/>That mark our place; and in the sky<BR/>The larks, still bravely singing, fly<BR/>Scarce heard amid the guns below.<BR/><BR/>We are the Dead. Short days ago<BR/>We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,<BR/>Loved and were loved, and now we lie<BR/>In Flanders fields.<BR/></I> <BR/><BR/>ITAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-64648463956901486222007-11-12T19:24:00.000-08:002007-11-12T19:24:00.000-08:00Me, too, Jan. Thanks Susan. I would have missed i...Me, too, Jan. Thanks Susan. I would have missed it if you hadn't posted it. Brilliant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-5566588039942885502007-11-12T17:50:00.000-08:002007-11-12T17:50:00.000-08:00Thanks for the link. I need to read more of Frank ...Thanks for the link. I need to read more of Frank Rich.Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08061517211101084120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-29384463307201195892007-11-12T15:54:00.000-08:002007-11-12T15:54:00.000-08:00There is a whole list of boneheads that should rem...There is a whole list of boneheads that should remain silent on Veteran’s Day: Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly, Olbermann, Matthews, Russet, et al. And, unless I missed Rich’s AF flight school completion and F102 qualification, he has to join the list. He’s never faced anything more dangerous than ink poisoning. <BR/><BR/>Until you have the responsibility to decide whether to treat the Geneva Bateau Masterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17641991475361553674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-263729210153981172007-11-12T15:29:00.000-08:002007-11-12T15:29:00.000-08:00Like the current Commander in Chief did while he w...Like the current Commander in Chief did while he was in the National Guard?<BR/><BR/>Don't even get me started ... !!!SUSAN RUSSELLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01795717638621668638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21609676.post-49478578406664517292007-11-12T14:15:00.000-08:002007-11-12T14:15:00.000-08:00Frank Rich .... ????There a writer with such a stu...Frank Rich .... ????<BR/><BR/>There a writer with such a stunning bona fides that we should make him a Veteran's Day Icon. NOT!<BR/><BR/>Let him put on a uniform and take responsibility for something more dangerous than a theater review and then let him come back and tell us how we've failed.Bateau Masterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17641991475361553674noreply@blogger.com