Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Sudden new respect

Subject: txt heroes -



Has anyone else noticed that during the past 16 months we've seen a major increase in overdue respect, honor and appreciation for our nation's military heroes?

It's absolutely true.

Just turn on your TV, open a paper, or walk around your local downtown, and you'll notice love for the troops we've not seen since at least 1991, if not 1945. Suddenly, aside from the clinically insane, most everyone seems to admire the soldiers who provide us our cherished freedoms; but why, especially when from 2001-2008, that admiration was pitifully lacking?

Oh yes, we have a different president. That's the unspoken reason.

Suddenly John Kerry has stopped bashing them, and Democrat leaders who were calling them murderers and seeking defeat at any cost now find them heroic?

Saturday is Armed Forces Day, a little known holiday outside of military circles; but hey, it's the Obama Era -- we're 'post partisan' or something, despite really the opposite -- therefore we'll surely hear some love.

I'll honor all our service members, of course, but as someone who works to honor military men and women every day of my life, I am offended at the blatant politicization that makes doing so contingent upon which party is in power...

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