Attacks From The Noise Machine Know No Decency

The following is culled from the comment section at FireDogLake today. The commenter was Raven, and she is absolutely right in her reaction. I am neither military, nor former military, but this crap just burns the soul.


"As I sat and waited in Panera Bread on news from the hospital in Lynchburg I noticed a couple of guys in “Vietnam Vet” hats come in. As I usually do, I went over and asked them what outfits they were in. We started to shoot the shit and a couple more guys, one Korea vet, came in and took their places. Two Marines three dogfaces counting me. These guys were all combat vets (except remf-ass me) and all on disability. The conversation got to the Wall and this year’s 25th Anniversary. As we talked one guy asked me if I was going to the “Gathering of Eagles” at the Wall March 17th to “protect the Wall” from Jane Fonda, Cindy Sheehan and an anti-war demonstration. Liberty Post I had not heard anything about this but I raised my curiosity. I was amazed; I said to them, “These folks aren’t going to DO anything to the Wall”. The old Korea Vet agreed. I then brought up Walter Reed and each of them had stories about how both the military hospitals and the VA screwed them over. I’ve been dealing with this kind of stuff for years but I still don’t get it. They know they were suckered and abused and that it is happening again but they want to focus on Jane Fonda. I hope whoever is planning this demonstration has the sense not to feed into this kind of thing.

I get to answer my own question, the march website says nothing about the Wall, the rallying point is the Constitution Gardens. March

housands of veterans and military families, including those who have lost loved ones in Iraq, will be in the front ranks of the March on the Pentagon. Some tiny pro-Bush groups who support the war in Iraq, and who normally mobilize about 25 people to hold signs when massive antiwar protests take place, are now callously trying to manipulate Vietnam veterans by spreading rumors that the March on the Pentagon will defile the Vietnam Memorial. This lie should be treated with the same contempt that people have for the other lies promoted by Bush and his followers to justify an illegal war of aggression: Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction; Iraq was responsible for the September 11 attacks; and that the U.S. occupation would be greeted as an act of liberation by the Iraqi people. Enough lies. Enough deceit!"