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Becoming a soldier, well, what does it mean? Maybe it depends on whether you ask a soldier before going to war or after he comes home.
Being a soldier meant doing what we thought was best, we thought we were fighting for America. It turns out not to be so true. If we fought for freedom, why do people disagreeing with the government not have freedom of speech? Why do people protesting unfair treatment get tear gas and tazers? Did we not fight for your freedom, for mine?
Many times, soldiers become disillusioned with what war really is. Did we think that bullets, bombs and any weapons of war discriminate? Did we think they somehow they would not cut down anything and anyone in their path? Maybe we did.
With the erosion of freedom, did we do such an excellent job fighting, fighting for, not your freedom, not my freedom, but for the freedom of rich banks and corporations to take over, not just other countries, but America as well?
Did we fight for the freedom of going backward in time, for the elite to take our jobs, to take our homes, to run us all into the ditch economically?
Well, Brothers and Sisters, then I guess we won that damned war. Not for you, not for me, but for the rich and powerful.
Money cannot buy votes unless we allow it to. Voting rights cannot be taken away, unless we allow them to. Jobs cannot be sent elsewhere, unless we allow them to.
As a veteran, I see "support our troops" slogans that mean nothing more than just that.......words, meaningless words. What in hell are you supporting? Do you even know?
When I shop and the clerk says: "Do you want to give your change to help buy school supplies for the military families kids?" I think: Why in hell isn't our supposedly grateful, government buying those school supplies? Isn't the government their present employer? Is American government the Wal-Mart of America now too? Low wages, crap services and driving military families into poverty? Shame on America for hiring military people to be their private mercenaries and not paying them well enough for the job. Fighting for our freedoms you say? Look again and guess again.
When I to to the VA for services, services are limited. Yet when I served, my time was not limited, those men who died did not limit their service to the government. Limited? Well, the hell, you say!
