Now that the wars have slipped off the national screen, it’s time for journalists to start taking pot shots at veterans of those wars, like they did during the Vietnam Era. Of course, I see it as penis envy, or something, wherein the journalists got a good look at how useless they really are during the wars, how the big contribution they thought they were going to have on changing the world is really just a popcorn fart in the Great Scheme of Things.<\/p>\n
Two journalists in particular have popped up in my inbox. The first, Bill MacClellan at the Saint Louis Post Dispatch<\/a> thinks that most of us don’t even deserve a military funeral;<\/p>\n Both the federal government and the state government are broke. So why are we providing military funeral honors for all veterans? It is a nice gesture we can\u2019t afford.<\/p>\n Certainly, men and women killed in combat deserve full military honors. It\u2019s a way for the country to say, \u201cWe honor the memory of those who died in our service.\u201d These military honors \u2014 and the thought behind them \u2014 are intended to provide some solace for the families of the fallen.<\/p>\n But what about the guy who spends a couple of years in the military and then gets on with his life? Bear in mind that most veterans did nothing heroic. They served, and that\u2019s laudable, but it hardly seems necessary to provide them all with military honors after they have died. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n What an asshole. I mean seriously. Just because he never wore a uniform (at least he didn’t hide behind someone else’s service for his vacuous rant), what gives him the right to decide whose service is worthy of a military funeral? Just so Bill knows, in these times, just stepping up and wearing a uniform is ten times more worthy than the rest of you shitheels who snipe at us for our service.<\/p>\n