Just a random observation from a few days ago…

I was driving to work on Hwy. 26 the other day when I pulled alongside a big white delivery truck. On the side, in huge letters, were the words “Vietnam Veterans of America” in a circle around a colorful, striped emblem I recognized from some of my father’s old war medals. Underneath that were the words, “Household Discards Promptly Picked Up.”

It looks like they have set up some sort of program where people go and pick up other people’s garbage, and use the proceeds from that for the veterans. It got me thinking. Do the young men and women who are going into the military now know the way that society will treat them 25 years from now? Do they know that they will be glorified garbage men and women, living on the proceeds from the scraps of others? Do they understand that their government won’t honor them, won’t care about their sacrifices… probably not even five years from now, much less twenty-five.

They don’t even honor them now. Donald Rumsfeld just got lambasted in the press for not personally signing the letters of condolence that go out to the families of deceased soldiers in Iraq. He had an auto-signer machine do the job.

Let’s just take a moment to put this in perspective:

The Secretary of Defense could not be bothered to take the time to sign his name to a letter telling a family why it was so important that their son or daughter died for America… to give them the thanks of a grateful nation for their families’ sacrifice of a loved one.

What a fucking bastard.

Anyway, I just wonder if these kids that think they are signing up for money, glory and honor know what they are getting themselves in to?

I don’t think they do.

That's all for now.

Love to all,

Sherry