The Color of Ignorance

Note: I realize that this is a fairly partisan post, but it is on Blog America because it has to do with a great American holiday, and the degeneration it might be facing.

This post also appears on the blogs But I Can Hear You and Warzone! Editorials.

As everybody should know, today is Veteran's Day, where we honor the courageous men and women of the armed services, unless you're a liberal in Waterville, Maine, in which case Veterans Day is a time to dishonor the memories of the dead and use it to your political gain. An anti-war group called Waterville Areas Bridges for Peace and Justice (who obviously don't live up to the justice part since anti-war meant keeping Saddam in power) planted 2,000 white flags in the ground at a cemetery filled with war dead. While white is the color of peace, a white flag also means surrender. Outraged, and rightfully so, 10 members of the VFW began to remove flags, refusing to have flags of surrender displayed on Veteran's Day. Now comes the really sick part. Five of them were arrested for "trespassing." Wayne Elkins, commander of the VFW said, "They desecrated our veterans' grounds. If they want to protest, let them protest. We don't mind. But to desecrate hallowed ground is wrong." He is absolutely right. To go into a soldiers' resting place to plant flags of surrender (they were meant to be peace but it really equates to the same thing) is about the most disgusting thing I have ever heard of a war protester do, and I've heard some pretty sick things.

I don't know which sickens me more, the arrogance, or the speaking for of the dead. Those anti-war protesters had some nerve sticking a flag for a soldier who might have been happy to lay down his life for his country. Especially the white flag of surrender. Maybe you liberals who want to bring the troops home would surrender to terrorist cowards, but as for me I will always support freedom and justice.

This is how we celebrate Vetren's Day now? By speaking for those that can no longer speak, all so that THEY, the anti-war idiots, can? Those 2,000 soldiers didn't die for this. Neither did the veterans we're supposed to be honoring. Next time they may want to actually HONOR a veteran, not make a mockery of what he stood for.

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