The ones who sometimes fight to make sure Johnny can run his mouth. The ones who have laid down their lives in some horrible places on this earth to defend freedom. The vets who are wounded, and yes sometimes disfigured so that tyranny can be defeated in the dark corners of the world. The ones who have suffered frostbite at Valley Forge, the ones who have dealt with malaria carrying mosquitoes in Vietnam, the ones who have fought disease and heat all through the Pacific in World War II.
Today we thank you, we really really thank you.
you hit it right on Johnny.
ReplyDeleteThe foreigners that immigrate to our country that come here because they don't have to pay taxes if they have a business have no damn clue and need to be taught that FREEDOM ISN'T FREE.
Assholes that know Memorial Day as a DAY OFF only...
I mean can't people give it up for at LEAST one day for vets? I think people do immigrate here for the freedom of speech and freedom to make a living. In a very indirect way, our vets have kept us SAFER from Islamic extremists in a way they never imagined.
ReplyDeleteCase and point, Johnny is from the Detroit area and Dearborn Michigan has THE highest population of Arabic people outside the Middle East. Yet there has never ever ever been ANY kind of anti-American incident there or born there. They LOVE America like you and I do. Why? Because they are part of the community. They own businesses and stores and are engineers at Ford Motor, their kids play with white and black kids on sports teams, they go to the same universities as everyone else.
They have OPPORTUNITY, made in part by our veterans over centuries. While they have Muslim slums in Europe where anti-west feelings fester and plots are hatched, why? Because they give them no guarantee of opportunity in Europe. People there look down on the Muslim population like subhumans. They live in poverty and resent it as any of us would.
Meanwhile back in Dearborn, because of our freedom to be somebody, life goes on as it has for decades, safe and sound.
I am happy to report that people still remember. I was heading back to Illinois from northern Michigan and I drove past a small cemetery in Kingsley, MI. Cars were parked bumper to bumper on the side of the road, visiting friends and relatives who served and are now laid to rest. My own grandfather is buried there; he served in both WW II and Korea and was buried with full honors 11 years ago. They don't make them like that any more.
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