On War

 (The following is a response to a facebook entry.  Their dad was a Nam Vet who saw the Iraq war a mistake.  I don't know what his opinions are of war in general.  Perhaps he's one after coming out of Nam who's against it altogether.  Maybe he's not.  But this was my response. By the way, if my dad had been alive to see the Iraq war, he'd been for it and chanting blow them off the face of the earth.)


My dad was in the Korean War. I think I know the war frontward and backwards.  He had tons of pics so we could see where he'd been and who his buddies were. He named my brother after one of them.

No one won that war, except for the people who were free from communism. Throughout his life, whenever he met someone from Korea who remembered ... they thanked him for helping them be free. He took a lot of pride in that, because to help them be free he got shot up - purple heart vet.

Nowadays they insult the Korean War vets by refusing to acknowledge it as a war. They stupidly call it "police action." It wasn't. It was a war. And it's shameful the way the lame brained, cowards and intellectually weak, treat the vets of that war and every war. Vets deserve to be thanked.

Freedom has a price - war. Otherwise the tyrants of the world will take that freedom from you.