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Sorry Flea,
But the conflicts in Somalia, Iraq, and the like have done little to nothing to secure my freedoms. My freedoms were guaranteed 200 years ago under the constitution. Just because someone is in the military - it doesn't mean they are a hero. Most of the freedoms enjoyed now a days - are from people like Rosa Parks, Clarence Earl Gideon, Larry flint, and others who refuse to put up with injustices.
Don't get me wrong. I have a lot of respect for the men and women on the ground fighting for what they believe in. Dying in peace time DOES NOT make you a hero. Where people get this idea from is beyond me.
Going up a burning world trade center and getting killed = hero.
Standing on the street and getting hit by a car while you are in a firefighters uniform does not make you a hero.
I know that is seen as Anti-American, but come on. Get real. If I work inside the Pentagon when it is hit - I am a hero? The janitor there is a hero too?
Every decent person deserves to be treated with dignity - including the men and women of the armed forces. I do not dispute that. They do not deserve mythical stature by distortion of the truth no matter how they died or lived.
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