Veterans Day

Incorrect. We don't have kings and we don't capitulate just because the President or whomever dies. Indeed, if they are foolish enough to take us into a war that is not just, they deserve to die...and if the war is just, then there will be plenty of us dying right with them.

Riddle me this, how free can a country be if it has to force its citizens to defend it?

How just can the cause be if free people will not volunteer to defend it?

We didn't need a draft to create this country, we don't need one to defend it.

 

For the one playing the game and issuing the orders, the game ends if he dies. He will not lead from the front like the Spartans.
We do not quit when the king dies, because it is nolonger about the king.

 

If that was the case, we would have quit WWII when FDR died and the South would have risen again when Lincoln died. Sorry, history does not agree with your theory.

 

you're talking large-scale I'm talking small-scale they're not the same thing.
Neither Lincoln nor Kennedy lead from the front while President. That was not thier role or function. While their legacy lives on, their game died with their deaths. ( game over thank you for playing)
It's a matter of perspective.
Leading from the front with modern weapons, is the mark of a fool, he would be killed in the first salvo, so why would he?
He's calling the shots and naming targets. His loss (no matter how enept he is) would sow confusion to his own troops, as the chain of command fails. The logistics would a nightmare.
There is no law that could force the Commander in Chief to fight from such an exposed position, and if a law were proposed, he'd veto it. (In his own eyes), he is too important to risk in that fashion.

So it's a pipe dream, and will never come to fruition. Enjoy your fantasy, I have to get back to work. Pray continue, I shall take my leave here.

 

I led from the front...yeah I might be a fool.

 

FWIW. I always take off veterans day to recognize those that serve and served. Did two public Vet Day memorials this year.

MLK was a womanizer and a public manipulator, no hero in my book.

 

This is true and yet despite his flaws he created a peacful movement that changed our world. Now the pendulum has swung too far left, hopefully it will swing back right again before we are all slaves

 

As a Vet I can say that it is not in my set of values to create any type of movement that puts one person or persons above another as an excuse to have a peaceful movement.

Anytime you make second class citizens you end up with a second class country.

 

This thread was about Veteran's Day and wandered off topic.

Here is something I remember every Veteran's Day:

It is the soldier, not the reporter,
who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer,
who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer,
who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the soldier, not the politician,
who has given us the right to vote.
It is the soldier, who salutes the flag,
who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
who allows the protester to burn the flag.
(Charles M. Province)

Or as George Orwell said:
People Sleep Peacefully in Their Beds at Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to Do Violence on Their Behalf.

God Bless our Warriors, past and present for without them our way of live would not exist.

I am very proud to be a Veteran of the Armed Forces of United States of America.