{"id":22948,"date":"2011-04-13T12:51:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T16:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22948"},"modified":"2011-04-13T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T16:51:26","slug":"first-lady-thinks-americans-arent-connected-to-the-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22948","title":{"rendered":"First lady thinks Americans aren’t connected to the military"},"content":{"rendered":"

ROS sent us this link, and I read the article yesterday, but I was hesitant to comment, because anything I might say can be construed as ungrateful and disrespectful. But anyway, Michelle Obama interviewed with Stars & Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cStill most Americans don\u2019t have a connection to the military community,\u201d she said during an interview with Stars and Stripes on Tuesday. \u201cThis is a group of individuals who give so much and don\u2019t want to fall into the shadows. They want to know they live in a country that cares about what they do.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So her solution is to ask Americans to volunteer to express “broader support from the entire country is needed to reach out to military families and offer them the respect they deserve”. My first reaction is not meant to be ungrateful, but, if you haven’t been moved to do these things in the last ten years, the troops really don’t need someone who wants to mouth the words and go through the motions because Michelle Obama told you to.<\/p>\n

Even IVAW complained that Americans were generally ignoring the troops and the war. It’s pretty much too late to pretend you care because it’s the next popular thing to do with your “Organizing for America” friends.<\/p>\n

When the wars began, I took donated pogie bait to the guys at Walter Reed, brought wives to my apartment so they could cook homemade meals for their husbands, smuggled them beer, contacted their representatives in Congress – before there was a better-organized effort by the new organizations which have sprung up. When they started doing a better job than I was doing, I got out of the way.<\/p>\n

And that’s the best thing that these newly converted supporters of the troops can do – send your money, but stay out of the way. Or enlist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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