All this mawkish sentimentality over our soldiers. The only real way to show them respect and gratitude is to insure that they never get put in harm’s way to satisfy a whim, or to put money into already fat pockets.As this latest war was being contemplated, Congress was busy asking entertainers about steroids.We older citizens—the “hell no, we won’t go” generation—signed off on the war ’cause there was no draft, and everyone knows that REAL Americans go to college—not to the armed services.
All this mawkish sentimentality over our soldiers. The only real way to show them respect and gratitude is to insure that they never get put in harm’s way to satisfy a whim, or to put money into already fat pockets.As this latest war was being contemplated, Congress was busy asking entertainers about steroids.We older citizens—the “hell no, we won’t go” generation—signed off on the war ’cause there was no draft, and everyone knows that REAL Americans go to college—not to the armed services.