My late father-in-law drove LST s for the landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He made six approaches and landings, and six return trips to the ship, all without receiving as much as a scratch.

The same could not be said however for the many troops that he delivered.

His wife, my mother-in-law, said that he only told her the story once, and would never speak of it again, taking it to his grave.

It makes one proud. And sad.

No, Bud, I have the speech you’re complaining about linked above, with the relevant paragraphs cited @ 7.12.

And this isn’t the first time I’ve asked conservatives to explain what, exactly, they find offensive about it. Still, I will ask again–what exactly is offensive about those paragraphs? With what do you take issue?

I was studying to be a historian in the late 1960’s and questioned my dad about his experieces. It was like pulling teeth, but I finally got the D-Day and Bastogne stories. No dice on the MP part. Following his death in 1969, I researced the MP story. His unit escorted German civilians through concentration camps. He couldn’t stand to remember.

God bless my daddy.

Typical of the weak minded, mouth foaming knuckle-draggers of the left, who voted in lockstep for a socialist, praying that he would sow upon them freebies taken from the haves, and given to the have-nots/will-nots (as in will not work for food – ITS FREE, after all, we gots Obowo!)

TnGelding, it is hard to explain and even harder to understand. And it often times even extends to non-liberals.

To wit, even now, the “faithful” and neo-conned adore the three lardasses Rove, Cheney and Limbaugh and apparently see them as the new (old?) trinity that is going to take them to the promised land. But it looks very much like a forty year stint in the wilderness is at hand.

And at the same time they absolutely abhor numerous men of valor and honor, including Colin Powell, Chuck Hagel and John McCain.

The trend is absolutely unmistakable.

Lip service to service. Dismissive of sacrifice. Lacking a code of honor, they have replaced it with a code of party purity.

And the chickenhawks still naively think their bloodlust and chest-pounding will fool those who at last see them for what they really are.

See, a sane person reads those words, rolls his eyes, and moves on.

Freaking al Qaeda can’t even do this much damage to the United States.

But hey, the liberals paid reverence to our war dead on Memorial Day, so don’t question their patriotism!

May 26th, 2009
7:29 am

It’s also a symbol of redneck ignorance