welch wrote:Countertrey wrote:welch wrote:I can't cheer for any one person's death. Good riddance to Bin Laden. I got tired of carrying around revenge. Probably it's my Methodist up-bringing...just can't escape it.
I cheer when the Redskins win a game, go delirious when they win the Super Bowl.
War is not a game. I've met too many veterans of Iraq and Afganistan to treat it as lightly as a game. Hooah?
Blessings to those who return alive; blessings to those who return hurt, and every wounded Soldier and Marine is hurt badly. Blessings to those who are killed.
If college kids want to pound their chests and cheer, let them enlist.
(For the record, for those too new to know it, my son and daughter-in-law served in the US Army 2002 - 2009. I've met a grieving woman whose son, an Army Captain, was killed leading his unit as it cleared the road for the pointless "Duelfer Commision" that hunted IEDs. My pastor's son, and Army Ranger, just returned from Afghanistan after his ninth tour of the Middle East. I know another woman who returned from the invasion in '03 with a mass of facial cuts from an RPG that hit his Hummvee; his driver lost both arms at the shoulders)
I feel relief at the killing of OBL, but this is not flag-waving time.
Not sure how your last comments relate, Welch... nor can I understand how knowing someone (who may or may not agree with you) increases the force of your beliefs... who are you lecturing?
Not lecturing anybody. Trying to explain why I don't feel like waving my arms that OBL is dead. Good riddance, but I was bothered by all the college kids who acted like their team had won a game. I'm glad OBL is dead, but just don't feel the anger I felt ten years ago. Too much has happened.
Oh, and I've met too many macho young college-age kids who jump around but think they are too good to do anything but make money. Consider it over-exposure to Wall Street pups.
I soooo misread your post... my apologies!
