[Grovenet] One opinion about or military standing

[Geri]

I agree with you very much, David, and find these issues
heartbreaking.

And what you said here is constantly on my mind: "Finally,
it is no victory for our children, reared in an America of
such divisive loathing, enormous debt, and tarnished  
standing."  That disgusts me every day - We have four
adult children (ages 23 to almost-31), plus grandchildren ...
and this is how America has been for most (or all) of their
lives?!!

Gotta change.


Geri

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Morelli" <jo.david at verizon.net>
To: "grovenet" <grovenet at rdrop.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 8:45 PM
Subject: [Grovenet] One opinion about or military standing


> 
> <quote>
> I can't help but reflect on the issues of health and homelessness  
> that our Vietnam veterans faced for decades, just think of the tidal  
> wave of veteran's issues about to return to our shores. John McCain  
> claims the surge as a "victory." Well, it's no victory for the nearly  
> 5,000 American dead. For the hundreds of thousands of civilian dead.  
> It's no victory for the veterans who under this Republican  
> administration, it has already been demonstrated, will not be served  
> upon their return. It's no victory for our country to have a broken  
> and depleted military, a broken and depleted economy, with so much  
> work to be done at home on issues of healthcare, poverty,  
> infrastructure, education, environment, and perhaps, most of all,  
> security. And it's no victory, that in attacking the wrong country,  
> we boosted Al Qaeda recruitment worldwide 300% (as we stop-loss our  
> own.) Finally, it is no victory for our children, reared in an  
> America of such divisive loathing, enormous debt, and tarnished  
> standing.
> </quote>
> 
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