GRAYWOLF's Brain Farts

I am wondering how long it will be before someone comments on this (without reading what I actually wrote) and accuse me of hating the US or our military, etc...


IS, did you see the new Rock or Country board?

I don't know all the details. i had to look at Wiki to find the reasons given for various conflicts. I knew that The Revolutionary War, WWI, WWII and anything since WWII were to for our freedom, but I wasn't sure about some of the others in between...

if you like your freedom , thank the universal lottery system ( sometimes mis-labeled as god ) for just being born where you were born , there is some kind of sick bingo game going on somewhere that when your number is called then you are born in America or you are born in a ditch in the sewers of India , but it's not a pick you make on your own

My Granddad (WWI), Dad (WWII), I (Vietnam), my older Son (Dessert Storm) and my younger Son (Iraqi Freedom) take this opportunity to thank you very much for your kind words.

Obviously, none of us has ever contributed a single thing to our nation and her people.

Thanks to you and your family, KK

IMO without our soldiers we would not be here. What would our life be like if we had never been to war to help others? Would God still bestow blessings on us? By 'going' to war it keeps the war from coming here. Read the Bible, there will never be peace in this world.

God bless our soldiers :)

"Obviously, none of us has ever contributed a single thing to our nation and her people."

KK, That is not what I said.

Luv, I didn't say they didn't have an impact, just that they weren't fought for OUR freedom.

That one last sentence of yours, I agree with.

I have always said that.

But, it has always been this way. Other countries helping out other countries.

Luv, "helping" is too vague of a term...There are politicians that would have us believe that we are "helping" other countries by telling them how to run their government, when they didn't ask us, or that overthrowing sovereign nations is "helping" them.

There is no reason for our government to meddle with other countries. If individuals (separately or through charities) and/or private businesses want to help, that is fine, our government needs to stay out of it. That is what creates the hatred that festers into events like Sept 11,2001.

"Our soldiers are trying to destroy what they know will destroy us if not for them."

The ones searching for UbL, yes. Iraq was no threat to us. UbL would not be trying to destroy us if not for our government.

If left unchecked, things like extremism, genocide and terrorism will most certainly effect our freedoms, so respectfully, I must disagree with your view.

On the subject of our soldiers, I must also disagree with you. My son, who just recently finished his 3rd tour in the Middle Eastern theater and he is at this very moment trying to have his present orders superceeded so that he can do yet another tour in Afganastan. He does so with full knowledge of what he is in for and his reasons are quite clear to him. It has nothing to do with the political pi$$ing contest that I am sure is quite real. It has only to do with standing by his fellow Marines' side and fighting to free ALL people from the evil of terrorism, oppression and brutality. In effect, keeping it from ever reaching us to steal our freedom.

You seem to feel that our soldiers are mindless beings controlled solely by our government, when in fact they are brave and forethinking individuals that understand the implications of leaving such atrocities unchecked; thereby maintaining and protecting our freedoms.

Let me get this straight.....you think that if we sit idly by within our own little borders, never interfering in anyone else's business, that the atrocities that take place everyday in our big wide world could never have touched us here at home. If we had stayed out of the majority of the conflicts listed above that our freedom in our own country would not have ever been threatened, or as I am understanding you to say, was never threatened?