You’ll learn, though. War in Iraq has killed many terrorists and rid the world of a dangerous dictator. You are upset that your family are sent to protect the vital interests of every American? Wait until Obama decides to send them to Rwanda or to quell a civil war in Zimbabwe. Then you’ll know what it’s like to lose family members for nothing. Black Hawk Down, anyone? Our soldiers will die for ideology under Obama, just as they did under Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, and every other collectivist government in history. Even if you believe this is a war for oil, it is better than war for nothing. War for oil keeps milk and bread on your family table. Oil keeps your employers costs down low enough to make a profit and keep paying your salary. War for oil keeps the lights on in your local emergency room. You’ll learn when your family business is sold to pay the taxes, or when you try to pay for your kids to go to private school when your public schools are failing regardless of how much tax money they take in. You’ll learn how free you are when the Obama administration establishes a speech restriction committee to monitor what views are expressed on the radio, television, and yes dear, the internet. So go ahead and believe the propaganda, you wouldn’t be the first. 60 million Germans went before you and they were and they were probably smarter then you. They, like you, didn’t understand what the “common good before the private good” really meant.

I have posted about my feelings about Veteran’s day and the military.  This year, I offer this post, edited from a blog I wrote in 2005 before the advent of this site.
What Veteran’s day means to me.
I posted my daughter’s feeling……

Factors that substantially reduce racial inequality in the armed forces are the emphasis on racially integrated work and living environments, enforcement of equal employment opportunity policies, and a social hierarchy built on rank rather than class or race.

Immigrant minorities are being rewarded with citizenship applications fast-tracked in exchange for their service in Iraq.

I guess that school brainwashing is hard to overcome

It is not your fault that you don’t understand history, or the importance of language and meaning. Your teachers were all Leftists, so they taught you what they believed.

The NSDAP was the SOCIALIST workers party. Those words have meaning only in the grammar of the Left. The fundamental imperative of Leftist political systems is collectivism. Communism, Nazism, even Imperialism are collectivist philosophies. What stands in opposition to them is not the so-called right wing, Democracy and Freedom are the opposite of collectivism. You imagine that Leftists went out to fight command economies, collectivized production of all goods, wealth redisctribution, enforcement of “correct” political thought, and the annihilation of the upper classes? Leftists have always supported those exact things! Both the Soviet and Nazi revolutions did all of those things, differing only slightly in terms of method and degree. What you call the “right wing” were the free nations of the world fighting against Leftism, which in the 20th century murdered 25 million people in cold blood.

Those people were murdered to create Leftist states, plain and simple. Hitler and Stalin wanted to control energy policy, created a centralized, command economy, engage in wealth redistribution, centralize health care resources, and control political speech. Gee, what recently elected President has said that those exact things are his priorites? That’s right, Obama!

The problem is that you’ve been taught that Leftists are really cool dudes and the right wingers are just uptight squares, man. “yeah, dude! the right wing wants to keep us from smokin out on some tasty bud and chillin with our gay and lesbian friends!” You think Leftists are just the actors and musicians you see on TV. No, they starved the Kulaks, they gassed the Jews, they murdered millions in an orgy of violence we now call “the killing fields”. North Koreans freeze and starve in the dark today because of Leftism, while their brothers in the South live in freedom and prosperity. The Right isn’t the opposite of the Left, the love of freedom and the hatred of genocide is the opposite of Leftism.