Comments on: Veterans Day 2009 http://themoderatevoice.com/52686/veterans-day-2009/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:06:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: veterans day 2009 | veterans day 2009 http://themoderatevoice.com/52686/veterans-day-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-230082 veterans day 2009 | veterans day 2009 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:05:16 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52686#comment-230082 [...] In the United States, Veterans Day is usually observed on November 11. http://www.when-is.comVeterans Day 2009 | The Moderate VoiceI suppose it was somewhat heartening to see that our national parks and forests will be giving free [...] [...] In the United States, Veterans Day is usually observed on November 11. http://www.when-is.comVeterans Day 2009 | The Moderate VoiceI suppose it was somewhat heartening to see that our national parks and forests will be giving free [...]

]]> By: Father_Time http://themoderatevoice.com/52686/veterans-day-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-230050 Father_Time Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:52:43 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52686#comment-230050 FREE APPLEBEES!<br><br>No proof of purchass nessesary? I...I can't fit into my uniform anymore. Can I wear a hat? Damn....they're closed now anyway. FREE APPLEBEES!

No proof of purchass nessesary? I…I can't fit into my uniform anymore. Can I wear a hat? Damn….they're closed now anyway.

]]> By: JeffersonDavis http://themoderatevoice.com/52686/veterans-day-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-229942 JeffersonDavis Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:39:43 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52686#comment-229942 Jazz....<br>Don't forget about the free meals at Applebees, Golden Corral, and Pondarosa (et. al).<br>Is it a bit much? I doubt it. I personally think that veterans (especially Vietnam Vets) deserve more than they have - including free "cadillac" healthcare for life like Congress - not just VA Hospitals.<br><br><br>Happy Veteran's Day to all who have served! Jazz….
Don't forget about the free meals at Applebees, Golden Corral, and Pondarosa (et. al).
Is it a bit much? I doubt it. I personally think that veterans (especially Vietnam Vets) deserve more than they have – including free “cadillac” healthcare for life like Congress – not just VA Hospitals.

Happy Veteran's Day to all who have served!

]]> By: staroid http://themoderatevoice.com/52686/veterans-day-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-229907 staroid Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:29:04 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52686#comment-229907 Taps is played. It goes out over the nation on radio and TV and can be heard everywhere.<br> The notes are played with a deliberate hesitancy: Da...ta...daaah..There is a pause between the phrases. Ta..ta daaaah, and the first note of each is dragged out just a bit more than it should: Myaaaah ma myaaaaah...The poor bugler must be overcome with grief. Then, the next phrase... wait for it...... there it is, ...my God, I'd thought he'd given up altogether and went home. There was such a pause. But, the sad blaring goes on.<br> There is no mistaking it: Everyone in the nation is being put into the morose, misty mood, a consensus of memoriam for those who have died while enlisted in the armed services. <br> If once having been an enlisted man, and having the term “veteran” attached to him, dying of whatever causes entitles a man to have a mournful taps played out at his funeral. Women soldiers also, but we seem to be mostly focused on men, especially if they died from guns and bombs, or operating guns and bombs, ideally bravely mowing down some enemy in the style of Rambo, in defiance of orders and in an effort to save his comrades, under impossible odds.<br> We don't blatantly set ranks or grades on who is most deserving, or who is less, but attitudes can be measured by numbers of people attending, and whether the funeral is broadcast in the media.<br> While we may all agree that the majority of us are working to move humanity forward, and to protect us in some way (whether from ourselves, or someone else, or even from some environmental or social poisons) the soldier is accorded a special honor.<br> We don't mourn so publicly when a window washer or a welder falls to his death from the 32nd floor, even though he was risking his life for us in a very real way. The journalist killed in Iraq doesn't get a flag-draped coffin the same as the soldiers who were killed by the very same roadside bomb. And, the soldier who comes home and commits suicide just to quiet the terrible noises in his head get nothing.<br> Though we revere those, like the civilian medics in a crashed helicopter, who have risked their lives to help save the lives of others, we have a special place for those risking their lives to kill our perceived enemies. It's just the nature of the hive mentality.<br> But, the loved ones don't want their soldier boy to get a nice funeral, they just want him to come home safe and sound. If they are religious folk, they would like their son or daughter to go to heaven, but just not right now.<br> For myself, I would rather have them play a bagpipe over the shreds of my carcass, rather than a bugle. Play a Bob Dylan song, like “Times They Are a-Changin' ” or maybe “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” Taps is played. It goes out over the nation on radio and TV and can be heard everywhere.
The notes are played with a deliberate hesitancy: Da…ta…daaah..There is a pause between the phrases. Ta..ta daaaah, and the first note of each is dragged out just a bit more than it should: Myaaaah ma myaaaaah…The poor bugler must be overcome with grief. Then, the next phrase… wait for it…… there it is, …my God, I'd thought he'd given up altogether and went home. There was such a pause. But, the sad blaring goes on.
There is no mistaking it: Everyone in the nation is being put into the morose, misty mood, a consensus of memoriam for those who have died while enlisted in the armed services.
If once having been an enlisted man, and having the term “veteran” attached to him, dying of whatever causes entitles a man to have a mournful taps played out at his funeral. Women soldiers also, but we seem to be mostly focused on men, especially if they died from guns and bombs, or operating guns and bombs, ideally bravely mowing down some enemy in the style of Rambo, in defiance of orders and in an effort to save his comrades, under impossible odds.
We don't blatantly set ranks or grades on who is most deserving, or who is less, but attitudes can be measured by numbers of people attending, and whether the funeral is broadcast in the media.
While we may all agree that the majority of us are working to move humanity forward, and to protect us in some way (whether from ourselves, or someone else, or even from some environmental or social poisons) the soldier is accorded a special honor.
We don't mourn so publicly when a window washer or a welder falls to his death from the 32nd floor, even though he was risking his life for us in a very real way. The journalist killed in Iraq doesn't get a flag-draped coffin the same as the soldiers who were killed by the very same roadside bomb. And, the soldier who comes home and commits suicide just to quiet the terrible noises in his head get nothing.
Though we revere those, like the civilian medics in a crashed helicopter, who have risked their lives to help save the lives of others, we have a special place for those risking their lives to kill our perceived enemies. It's just the nature of the hive mentality.
But, the loved ones don't want their soldier boy to get a nice funeral, they just want him to come home safe and sound. If they are religious folk, they would like their son or daughter to go to heaven, but just not right now.
For myself, I would rather have them play a bagpipe over the shreds of my carcass, rather than a bugle. Play a Bob Dylan song, like “Times They Are a-Changin' ” or maybe “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda”

]]> By: Rudi http://themoderatevoice.com/52686/veterans-day-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-229905 Rudi Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:20:54 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52686#comment-229905 For the animal lovers here's some good clips of pets welcoming home vets:<br><a href="http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=29614" rel="nofollow">http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=29614</a><br><a href="http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/40324" rel="nofollow">http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/40324</a> For the animal lovers here's some good clips of pets welcoming home vets:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=29614
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/40324

]]> By: ProfElwood http://themoderatevoice.com/52686/veterans-day-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-229897 ProfElwood Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:59:47 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52686#comment-229897 I've seen the full color view of that picture -- the fourth person from the left is the friend that committed suicide in the city lockup. I've seen the full color view of that picture — the fourth person from the left is the friend that committed suicide in the city lockup.

]]> By: Bonnie Jean Brown http://themoderatevoice.com/52686/veterans-day-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-229879 Bonnie Jean Brown Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:52:43 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=52686#comment-229879 Remember. Remember.

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