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Originally posted by sgtclub
I agree with a lot of what you posted. I really and truly admire Kerry (and all others) that volunteered to go to war. That is balls and he deserves our respect for that.
I do not see Swiftvets gate as denigrading that service. Medals or not, the dude was injured in service to the country. Period, but not end of story.
Just like the fact that he volunteered and served (as far as I can tell) admirably shows us attributes of his character, so does his actions (a) in allegedly working the system and fluffing the record to get the medals (if true), and (b) in the hippy movement when he got back.
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Since Ty has been
banned, I will attempt to raise his blog-quoting torch. Apologies in advance for the cut-and-paste job. I'm still new at this.
"Correspondents’ Corner:
Name: David S. Bernstein
Hometown: Boston, Mass.
Eric:
So, my extended family is all gathered around for Thanksgiving dinner, and my sister's boyfriend starts telling these horrendous lies about our uncle Pete -- about how his war medals are all based on lies, and how Pete's not really a hero, etc. Everything he's saying is obviously made up, but he won't shut up about it.
So I turn to my sister and say: "Will you please tell your boyfriend to shut up with that crap about Uncle Pete?"
And she says: "No, but I do object in principle to ALL non-blood-relatives being allowed to speak at the dinner table. I hope you'll join me in calling for all of these outsiders to be silenced."
End of parable.
What did we learned last week? George W. Bush refuses to make an ethical distinction between honest claims and dishonest claims.
Tune in this week as we learn another lesson from the Swifties: It's morally better to hush up wrongdoing than to try to end it. Did someone say Abu Graib?"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/
