{"id":10995,"date":"2009-05-28T17:14:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T22:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10995"},"modified":"2009-05-29T07:58:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T12:58:49","slug":"geezers-for-sitting-on-our-hands-freak-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10995","title":{"rendered":"Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands freak out"},"content":{"rendered":"

How many of you have been gone to your local county fair every year and passed by the National Guard or recruiters’ booths where they had military stuff on display? Everyone right? Well, now all of a sudden, the Geezers For Sitting On Our Hands freak out over the same thing we’ve been seeing for decades – suddenly it’s immoral. Here’s the picture from the Juneau Empire<\/a> that set their bony asses on fire;
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Now the Juneau Empire has since taken the picture down from their website, but it was an article about Memorial Day events in Juneau. So, anyway, since the Geezers got outraged about the Army Experience Center<\/a>, they’ve found a bit of fun in feigning outrage over every presence of the military outside of military bases. Leading the charge against the Juneau Empire’s editorial staff are mental giants like Ward Reilly<\/a>;<\/p>\n

I’d like to see Sergeant Michael Manson sitting behind the machine gun instead of helping children sit there… and then I’d like to shoot a few hundred rounds from another machine gun at his bullet screen, while the kids watch safely from someplace nearby.
\nMaybe then he would think twice before glorifying the act of sitting behind a machine gun to kids, without teaching the true ramifications of being an army gunner. The children wouldn’t EVER want to be there again. Shame on the National Guard for allowing this activity with our children.<\/p>\n

And this was at a “Safety Expo”?<\/p>\n

Ward Reilly
\nU.S. Army Infantry and ex-gunner 1971-74<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nice sentiment, Ward. you claim that you were a soldier, yet you’d express this kind of profanity about shooting at a soldier for doing his job. I guess that’s what you can’t relate to – doing your job as a soldier. And they’re not “our children”, Ward. I’m pretty sure the kids’ parents were nearby and fully approved of this benign activity. It’s hardly the National Guard’s fault – it’s not like they snatched kids away from their parents and planted them behind the machinegun, is it? Even though you wish it had been like that. Shame on you, Ward Reilly, deserter and non-Ranger. <\/p>\n

Ex-gunner, huh? Cute. I’ll bet I can name a lot of things that you’re ex-. But I’m pretty sure that the last time you and I emailed, you bragged that you were an 11C mortarman – hardly the kind of “gunner” that you’re trying to pass yourself off as…like that (Ranger) lie you try to tell.<\/p>\n

Also John Grant expresses his false outrage;<\/p>\n

So many opportunities for “personal growth.” Like a job in a depression — now, that’s a great opportunity. Can’t get work, hey, join the imperial centurians and go hunt down and kill kids out there on the fringes of empire in some place like Afghanistan where kids just like you can’t find a job either and have the opportunity for “personal growth” offered to them by some mullah & madrassa that does the work of our Army Experience Center or your local festival featuring cool Humvees and SAWs. Seems the world is full of opportunities for personal growth these days. Kurt Vonnegut summed it up best: And so it goes.<\/p>\n

John Grant
\nArmy Security Agency 1965-69, Vietnam 1966-67<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, John, you’ve certainly built a career around having been in the service – why would you deny someone else the same opportunity? Do you hate your fellow citizens that much? Or are you just throwing up in your mouth?<\/p>\n

Some actions, which can occur even during times of peace, could easily be considered war crimes. Perpetuating the culture of war is one of them. War is a sickness of our society that will not be cured until we stop glorifying it, until we stop sanitizing it, until we stop pretending it’s a game, and until we stop indoctrinating impressionable young people.<\/p>\n

Kim Carlyle, President
\nVeterans For Peace Chapter 099
\nWestern North Carolina<\/p>\n

U.S. Army. 1966-69. Served in Alabama and Germany<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Personally, I’d say that those idiots who flew planes into the WTC a few years back are “perpetuating the culture of war”, wouldn’t you? War doesn’t exist because we “glorify it”, it exists because people want to kill us. Luckily, for these bozos, there are people willing to defend them so they can shoot off their big, stupid mouths.<\/p>\n

And those people are not as gullible as you might think. I used to play “Army” when I was a kid, along with my two brothers – I was the only one who joined the Army. So explain how my brothers avoided the same influence to which I succumbed. And how my son, who was surrounded by all things infantry all of his life, became an Air Force medic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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