I saw the story about this young man on t.v. awhile back. I don't remember if it was Primetime or what, but I remember the picture of him vividly and his story.... He not only fought for this country -- he was fighting for the lives of all his men...his commrades...would any of us have left them to die? In my world, that is unthinkable...
stevec hides behind this forum because it's easy...it's easy for people like him to use the freedoms he's been given to condemn the ones who've given it to him...it's easy for people like him to bash those who've given everything so he could have everything...it's easy for people like him to talk about how wrong something is while he's been given the "right" to say just how wrong he thinks it is...the hard part for people like stevec comes when he is asked to fight those people and entities that want to destroy our freedoms, so as to ensure that those freedoms he so adamantly exercises remain his to exercise.
It's unfortunate that people like him are so narrow minded that all they can see is their own nose. I'm not saying I agree 100% with what our government does 100% of the time, but I would go any time I was called to defend the very thing I enjoy the most about living in the USA. For it isn't THIS government that gave me the rights we have now, it's the Founding Fathers of this great Nation that did -- the current government only seeks to keep our freedoms in place. We may not always agree on how it is to be done, but when terrorists strike THIS SOIL and the day comes that we do NOTHING about it (or rely on people like stevec to step up to the plate), that is the day we lose everything we've stood for. stevec and others like him would be the first to jump the border, all the while crying foul, but then saying that they should be "free" to go.
It's a good feeling to know that there are more people who understand HOW our freedoms came about and WHAT it takes to keep it, than there are people like stevec who are so busy sounding and acting like an imbesal, that he actually becomes an imbesal, and begins believing that people like osama bin ladan and hussein are really nice guys who are just misunderstood and would never think of changing OUR way of life to fit more into THEIR way of life...
I've said my piece....