Comments on: The Sunday Paper

By: david dickerson

david dickerson — Tue, 29 May 2007 02:04:08 +0000

The simple fact is we honor those who served — especially those who had to make a greater sacrifice. We don’t honor them because a war was just or unjust. We don’t honor them because they did or did not ever break the conventions of warfare. Sometimes there are some misguided people who do the wrong things in a time of war(give anybody power over life and death and there will be times when that power is misused).
We honor them because they served our nation.
And it is our nation, our laws, our politicians, our leaders and our democracry that picks the wars and determines how they will be fought.
It is our service men and women who must live with the impact of these decisions — our decisions. Right or wrong.
And that is why we honor them. Without their sacrifice, and willingness to be sacrificed, our society’s ability to make those decisions in a democratic fashion would be lost.

By: Camp

Camp — Tue, 29 May 2007 00:13:10 +0000

A short history of Taps.
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“Bugles Across America Buglers“
http://youtube.com/watch?v=aWT7FK1ULWQ
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johnny. If you have to ask such a question, then you’ve never known the answer. One could presume that you have no idea why a soldier fights and endures hardships in the first place. As such you must be carried & protected, by the sweat and blood of those stronger than you. You remind me of a spoiled child who kicks & screams, hurling insults at those who sacrifice for you to keep you safe…
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“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.“
–George Orwell
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“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.“
–John Stewart Mill
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“Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.“
–Ernest Miller Hemingway
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“It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace–but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!“
–Patrick Henry March 23,1775
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“The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms.“
–Carl Von Clausewitz
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“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.“
–John F. Kennedy Inaugural Address Washington, D.C. January 20, 1961
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“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again…who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.“
–Theodore Roosevelt

By: freedom_lover

freedom_lover — Mon, 28 May 2007 16:15:14 +0000

Johnny,
I can’t believe that amount of sh** that you’re talking. You don’t belong in a western country — go back to hole from which you crawled out of. If you ever join the iraqi/afghan insurgency, I will personally join the SASR and hunt your freedom-hating ass down. Kapisch?

By: Tiki

Tiki — Mon, 28 May 2007 05:30:45 +0000

You don’t have to join the Al Qaeda to find out that the U.S. is in it for the oil, that Saddam’s men now work for the U.S., and that the U.S. allied itself with Saddam, Iran (through arms sales), and so on.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 28 May 2007 02:19:47 +0000

Johny, why don’t you just go join al qaeda. Would that not be the correct fight for you?

By: Foreign.Boy

Foreign.Boy — Sun, 27 May 2007 23:19:56 +0000

Johnny, you disgust me.

By: Manden med den gule hat

Manden med den gule hat — Sun, 27 May 2007 16:02:09 +0000

While you are at it. Also remember thouse who died for your financial freedom.
They are easy to forget.

By: campbell

campbell — Sun, 27 May 2007 15:59:24 +0000

amen.