{"id":35814,"date":"2013-05-26T08:57:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T12:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35814"},"modified":"2013-05-26T08:57:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T12:57:16","slug":"gawkers-ken-layne-dont-steal-glory-from-living-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35814","title":{"rendered":"Gawker’s Ken Layne; Don’t steal glory from living veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t like Gawker. They steal my stories without giving me credit, and since traffic is the currency of blogs, they are taking food out of my mouth (not that it’s a terrible thing, but still…). Now they published this POS article that some dingus in San Francisco named Ken Layne<\/a> wrote telling us veterans that Memorial Day isn’t our day; On Memorial Day, Don’t Let Living Veterans Steal Glory From the Dead<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gawker’s military affairs desk is angry because year after year, the lamestream media puts out a bunch of pictures of 100-year-old veterans having a BBQ or wearing their old war hats. This is not the reason for Memorial Day. Memorial Day is to remember the dead, and to open the swimming pools for the summer, and to get a new mattress if necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, let me ask you, Mr. Ken Layne, who should the media be interviewing? Tombstones? That would make a very boring news day, wouldn’t it, dumbass. The memories of our honored dead reside in the words of the people who lived and fought beside the interred – where else would the media go to hear the stories of those heroes if not those who have survived.<\/p>\n

It’s hundreds of thousands of living veterans who are streaming through the streets of Washington, DC today on their motorcycles, to memorialize their comrades in one of the greatest tributes ever conceived.<\/p>\n

till, it’s Memorial Day, not Alive Veterans Day.<\/p>\n

Unless the veterans profiled around this weekend’s special advertising sections by America’s Media are zombies, this practice is unpatriotic and morally wrong. It is Memorial Day.<\/p>\n

Celebrate this day with the proper solemnity. It is “okay” to exclude living veterans from your parties and trips to Mattress Land.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, Ken, well if it wasn’t for the living veterans who tell the stories of our departed comrades, you’d quickly forget…I’d bet money on that. It seems to me the whole point of your idiot article is that you’d rather not be reminded by the visages of living veterans of their fallen comrades. So, keep your $.02 to yourself and complain about all of the living veterans to your neighbors while you’re doing your level best to forget about us this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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