When Britain tried to occupy Ireland young boys stood up to British soldiers and threw rocks at them.
Imagine it was Irish uniformed soldiers standing up to Britain with guns instead of rocks.
Imagine Irish soldiers forcing the British to pull back to save your way of life.
Would you admire your Irish soldier and be thankful that he saved your freedom?
Americans truly respect and are thankful to our five branches of the military. Our government doesn't always show how much we appreciate men and women who went off to war and came home minus a limb or perhaps PTSD but when we fly our flag we know why it still flies.
Reading again about Korea. Why were we taught General MacArthur was a hero? Maybe he did well in WW2. But, with Korea, he caused the slaughter of his own men with his ego. Like so many "leaders" who should have been tried for crimes against humanity, he was never charged with anything. My guy said he thinks he was killed in his staff car. Maybe a hit by the CIA he hated?? Hope he had time to think. The sad part of war is how the soldiers get treated. Some are called heroes, others baby killers. The rest fall in between. War doesn't ask them their druthers. Some wars welcomed their soldiers home with open arms and maybe a GI bill. Other times they had to slink back home and pretend it never happened. The worst is expecting them to just jump right back in like they never left. Pick up where they had been and move on. Unfortunately, the world had been moving on without them. And they struggled to find their way. Some are still struggling.
Orzzz: The one constant in this world is that there will always be new soldiers marching off to war. I never understand why old soldiers send their sons to war. The glory of it! The character building! That great 21 gun salute when they bury you and that nice flag your loved ones get to take home instead of you. My dad fought. Only time I ever saw him cry was sitting thinking at the kitchen table. Why dad! He apologized..men his age didn't cry. He said he was remembering the first "enemy" he shot. He said he stood over him thinking I just killed a boy. And then realizing he was the same age.Could have been him. These are the memories we give our sons to remember their whole lives. Now womens lib says we can join them. Gee thanks. I married out of high school. In 69 they did the numbers thing for draft. My new husband got a low number. I panicked. The thought I had was go to Nam and die. Lucky he ended up state side. I joined him in Colorado Springs and lived his life with him...Fort Carson. We lived with another couple. Guy had gotten out, Sargent..had been to Nam as door gunner. We talked lots. How he had been like my husband, calm, laid back. Came home ADHD like me. Said first gook he killed. Flew over..is he a maybe..yeah..could be..fly back and shoot him. Or could have just been a farmer in his field like back home. Why? Husband drove me thought the old barracks. Word was these were the guys ETSing from Nam. Don't talk to them. Stay away. Our friend here had been to Nam. Never talked til recently. Mechanics didn't fly with choppers. He admitted, door gunner. My second husband lucked out too. OR tech, stateside. He told me about hanging guys on the wall in a bag, no legs, no arms. Nam tore this country apart. Lessons should have been learned. Suppositions, lies, fear, money, power. We came out of Nam to a different country. And didn't learn a blasted thing!
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When Britain tried to occupy Ireland young boys stood up to British soldiers and threw rocks at them.
Imagine it was Irish uniformed soldiers standing up to Britain with guns instead of rocks.
Imagine Irish soldiers forcing the British to pull back to save your way of life.
Would you admire your Irish soldier and be thankful that he saved your freedom?
Americans truly respect and are thankful to our five branches of the military. Our government doesn't always show how much we appreciate men and women who went off to war and came home minus a limb or perhaps PTSD but when we fly our flag we know why it still flies.