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Thank You for Your Service
By Laurence M. Vance
November 12, 2018
On this day, there are some people who should be thanked for their service.
To those who work on holidays: Thank you for your service.
To those who work on weekends: Thank you for your service.
To those who drive cabs or UBER in the middle of the night: Thank you for your service.
To those who take care of the elderly living in nursing homes who suffer with dementia: Thank you for your service.
To those who work the late shift at McDonalds: Thank you for your service.
To those who work the early shift at convenience stores: Thank you for your service.
To those who do volunteer work: Thank you for your service.
To those who feed the homeless on Thanksgiving or Christmas Day: Thank you for your service.
To those who drive trucks across the country: Thank you for your service.
To those who help deliver babies in the middle of the night: Thank you for your service.
To those who help build houses for Habitat for Humanity: Thank you for your service.
To those who give to charity: Thank you for your service.
To those who remove the dead from their homes and clean things up: Thank you for your service.
To those who adopt children: Thank you for your service.
To those who deliver packages in the rain for Amazon, FedEx, or UPS: Thank you for your service.
To those who work for non-profit corporations: Thank you for your service.
To those who crawl into attics for pest control and cable companies: Thank you for your service.
To those who provide tech support: Thank you for your service.
To those who install new roofs in the heat of the summer: Thank you for your service.
To those who repair cars in the winter in unheated shops: Thank you for your service.
To those who pick vegetables: Thank you for your service.
To those who put money in church offering plates: Thank you for your service.
To those who do missionary work overseas: Thank you for your service.
To those who deliver pizza: Thank you for your service.
To those who wait tables: Thank you for your service.
To those who work in mental institutions: Thank you for your service.
To those who collect garbage: Thank you for your service.
To those who work in call centers: Thank you for your service.
To those who give back to their communities: Thank you for your service.
To those who clean up after their dogs: Thank you for your service.
To those who take care of their aged parents: Thank you for your service.
To those who pray for others: Thank you for your service.
To those who work at a place with no benefits: Thank you for your service.
To those who work for low pay: Thank you for your service.
To those who clean hotel rooms: Thank you for your service.
To those who work at Waffle House on Christmas Day: Thank you for your service.
To those who are foster parents: Thank you for your service.
To those who support St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital: Thank you for your service.
To those who clean windows on skyscrapers: Thank you for your service.
To those who clean up crime scenes: Thank you for your service.
To those who have unpaid internships: Thank you for your service.
To those who euthanize dogs and cats: Thank you for your service.
To those who write apps: Thank you for your service.
To those who work underground in mines: Thank you for your service.
And to those who shine shoes in airports: Thank you for your service.
Sorry veterans. There is nothing about your service that is worthy of thanks.
We don’t thank you for following immoral orders.
We don’t thank you for fighting unjust wars.
We don’t thank you for serving Uncle Sam instead of the country.
We don’t thank you for going to countries where you had no business going.
We don’t thank you for fighting senseless wars.
We don’t thank you for acting as the world’s policeman.
We don’t thank you for bombing, maiming, and killing for the state.
We don’t thank you for engaging in offense instead of defense.
We don’t thank you for making widows and orphans.
We don’t thank you for invading and occupying countries.
We don’t thank you for being part of the president’s personal attack force.
We don’t thank you for fighting undeclared wars.
We don’t thank you for being a pawn in the hands of Uncle Sam.
We don’t thank you for unleashing sectarian violence.
We don’t thank you for the death and destruction you caused overseas.
We don’t thank you for helping to carry out a reckless, belligerent, and meddling U.S. foreign policy.
We don’t thank you for being a global force for evil.
And we certainly don’t thank you for filling up restaurants on Veterans Day to get your free or discounted meals and increasing our wait times to be seated.
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I seriously hope this is all just some joke I’m not in on.

If it isn’t I’m so disgusted by what I’ve read here.

Vintagewife, I am not against veterans. Not at all. On the contrary, madam. I've met a lot of veterans, from most branches of the military, and they are all exemplary people. 

I am against the American military machine that propels this nation to strike the rest of the world, carpet-bomb Europe and lie to the powers that be that Iraq and Afghanistan had "weapons of mass destruction", wasting billions of dollars in American taxpayer dollars. YOUR taxpayer money going towards destabilizing Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya and turning once-peaceful countries (i.e. Qaddafi's Libya) into a flaming hole of dung that breeds Islamic terrorism. 

That's one of the reasons why Europe experienced so much Islamic terrorism at one point. With no semblance of a stable government, what moves into Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc? The Islamic State. A United States MIC-engineered and created Wahhabist group that primarily unleashed chaos in the Middle East and gave radical Jihadis the tools needed to go back to Europe and kill hundreds. 

I am simply saying that it is the way the military is used, as a world police force, is redundant. America as a nation does not need protecting. It is the wealthiest nation and the strongest military to ever exist. Ever. It makes the British Empire look like a mall food court -- the selfsame British Empire who once controlled most of the world. A nation with enough military prowess and force in the universe to wipe 90% of the world's countries off the map in 30 minutes does not need protecting because we do not need to get into any more wars. 

We've learned our lesson from the anti-Catholic World Wars. World War III will probably be started by the United States and the orange madman-in-chief. A country with enough military might and prowess to wipe Europe out of existence will probably be the harbinger of the next World War. 

They are not protecting our freedoms -- they are destroying other countries, though. I personally contend that the United States, through useless regime change, has been responsible for the deaths of someone on every continent -- even Oceania. Some Australian and New Zealander citizens have gone to Europe expecting a nice vacation but come home on an airplane in a coffin, dead, precisely because of regime change-induced Islamic terrorism. 

Such terrorism comes directly from the Levant and North Africa, where ISIS and Al-Nusra and all of these groups, likely all started when after 9/11, we thought that Bin Laden, an Arabic-speaking Saudi citizen, was in Afghanistan with the Dari and Pashto-speaking Taliban. Arabic and Pashto/Dari (the Afghan dialect of Farsi) are not even in the same language family. He would have no business being where he does not speak the language, but Zionist Daddy George Bush and Uncle Shmuel had other plans.

That is my point.

I seriously hope this is all just some joke I’m not in on.

If it isn’t I’m so disgusted by what I’ve read here.

As I could say for what you stated on a different thread yesterday: "It is knowing who to watch. My priest only watches Hannity and his interviews. Otherwise, it is a waste of time.

I grew up reading his books, and watching His shows. The only news anchor I truly trust!! "

I wish what you said was some joke, but apparently it isn't.  You seem to have really meant what you said.  I wonder if you believe 19 Muslims hijacked the planes on 9-11 and all the rest of the insane trash our own U.S. government has fed us about 9-11.  Hannity is one of the big media spokesman for these monstrous 9-11 lies and all kinds of other lies the government foists on us and which have led to incredible chaos and utter destruction of countless innocent lives.

Vintagewife, I am not against veterans. Not at all. On the contrary, madam. I've met a lot of veterans, from most branches of the military, and they are all exemplary people.

I am a  Marine veteran (4 years and 15 days).  I am neither for nor against veterans, just as I am neither for police, firemen, priests, religious, postal workers, teachers, garbage collectors, etc. nor against them.

I've met a lot of veterans from all branches of the military and I can state for a fact that they are no more all exemplary people than are all the people in the other categories mentioned.

Some of the vets I know are  very exemplary folks.  On the other hand, some of the ones I know are real lowlifes.  We should no more lionize vets than we should demonize them.  A good number of them including myself would never have joined the military if they knew then what they know now.

Unfortunately, history repeats itself and a lot of young ones get sucked -- military recruiters are notorious for lying -- into signing up simply for the benefits, pride (in the bad sense of the word), or misguided (i.e., a wrong headed and non-Catholic) sense of patriotism.