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Feb. 4th, 2007 02:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
somedaybitchrefutation, with proof, that the spitting-on-returning-vets meme, isn't, in fact, a meme.
my paternal grandfather was a double agent for the Allies. he was murdered by the Nazis in a hotel in Washington DC.
my maternal grandfather served. my brother served. my best friend from college had served - teaching fighter pilots how to fly - retired, and was flying commercial for United when two planes hit the World Trade Center. he re-enlisted, and just got back from Iraq a few months ago.
i am first generation. my family are refugee immigrants on both sides. this country took them in.
someone spits on a veteran or active duty soldier in front of me and it will be an action they will deeply regret.
i respect the opposition to war, this one or any other. everyone, even those supporting this war, or any other, should be, on some fundamental level in opposition to war, else it becomes too easy an action to resort to. but our military is volunteer. those men and women willingly choose to take bullets for us, and total strangers, because they believe it is the right thing to do. the very least we can do is show them the respect their raw courage demands.
protest the war all you want. hell, it's Constitutionally guaranteed and i'm proud that the guarantee exists. but that guarantee exists because generations of soldiers fought, and died, to preserve it for you. do the courtesy of keeping that in mind.
my paternal grandfather was a double agent for the Allies. he was murdered by the Nazis in a hotel in Washington DC.
my maternal grandfather served. my brother served. my best friend from college had served - teaching fighter pilots how to fly - retired, and was flying commercial for United when two planes hit the World Trade Center. he re-enlisted, and just got back from Iraq a few months ago.
i am first generation. my family are refugee immigrants on both sides. this country took them in.
someone spits on a veteran or active duty soldier in front of me and it will be an action they will deeply regret.
i respect the opposition to war, this one or any other. everyone, even those supporting this war, or any other, should be, on some fundamental level in opposition to war, else it becomes too easy an action to resort to. but our military is volunteer. those men and women willingly choose to take bullets for us, and total strangers, because they believe it is the right thing to do. the very least we can do is show them the respect their raw courage demands.
protest the war all you want. hell, it's Constitutionally guaranteed and i'm proud that the guarantee exists. but that guarantee exists because generations of soldiers fought, and died, to preserve it for you. do the courtesy of keeping that in mind.
