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Worthy of Killing and Dying For
The requirement is carved
into every scar,
every Fighter,
every Infantryman,
every Operator,
every pissed-off father
who buried too many brothers:
Make of this country, once more,
a people worthy of killing and dying for.
E.M. Burlingame
@Schwalm5132 Eric, this was excellent. You excelled in concisely identifying what we all felt. Hope is a virtuous thing my friend! Let’s keep it alive!
@jbyerly81 That’s fun shit right there!
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@Ofer_binshtok Like all euro assholes you missed the entire point of his statement! You should shut that giant hole in the middle of your face that stupid things fall out of and listen.
He was telling Isreal, we are your only ally. Dont publicly criticize the last friend you have!
@grey4626 @RealTraderJill I too love your writing and agree with you in intent.
Please accept that I have no other motive then for better understanding. Specifics I cannot provide, but if you have a little trust in a stranger with some very relevant experience. The indirect path he is on is the only path
@GadSaad Alternatively, if they fear the father and brothers that also dissuades the rapists.
Which is meant as a call to arms to all the ‘men’ on here to be better. Growing fat while contemplating lack of virtue in others is to fail as a father and brother!
So today I had a retired US Navy three-star admiral accuse me of being a bot and having never served in the US military.
I posted a rebuttal, which basically caused this Democrat admiral to get swarmed by a social media army of veterans (and patriotic non-veterans too).
I truly appreciate the outpouring of support, but I am also quite interested in what this says about the mindset of America’s veteran community in 2026, writ large.
Most of us? We served in the GWOT and are still angry about it. We are angry that we were sent to do impossible missions of building liberal institutions in 8th Century tribal societies. We’re angry about ridiculously restrictive ROE that got our friends killed. We are angry that for much of the wars we were inadequately resourced, driving soft-skinned HMMWVs down IED Alley. We are angry that we spent all those years to have, in the end, accomplished very little. We are angry at how the VA treated us when we got out. Most of all, we are angry about watching our friends get killed or maimed (or kill themselves when they got home), seemingly all for naught.
And guess what? We are REALLY angry at the senior generals and admirals who led us down this path and never had the cajones to tell the civilian elected leadership what the real deal was. (We’re not angry at Pete Hegseth’s team—we’re angry at the generals and admirals who caused the problems he and his team are trying to fix.)
That admiral who came at me today? He was one of those GWOT senior leaders.
What you saw today was much less an outpouring of support for me and much more an outpouring of righteous anger at a righteous target.
Just wanted to share my thoughts on this, it’s an interesting phenomenon.