MikeK
Gold Member
Sorry to disappoint you but understanding that sympathy, not gratitude, is the appropriate disposition toward those who were wrongfully and unfortunately subjected to the miseries of service in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Not expressing gratitude for being misused is not protesting the military. It is acknowledging reality and refusing to obscure responsibility for those wholly unnecessary military debacles.I think many Americans have learned with the Vietnam War that to protest a war or military action they do not agree wth does not mean they have to protest the military. At least I hope we've learned that.
I was a Vietnam protester. The protest was not directed at the military but at the so-called "war" which was not a war. Our troops were wrongfully deployed in Vietnam and in these other government misfeasances in the Middle East. How is gratitude an appropriate response for being so tragically misused? Saying thank you makes it all sound okay.
Vietnam was not the Normandy Invasion.
Iraq was not Iwo Jima.
Afghanistan is not The Bulge.
Try to understand the difference.