At a time in our confusing and idiotic history when a Democrat can’t define a woman when being interviewed on Capitol Hill or we are now supposed to celebrate Gay Pride Month, we seem to have a problem honoring those who either gave their lives for our country and put it all on the line and faced the prospect of death at the hands of the enemy in some foreign land. Times have become so distorted in this day and age that video games and cell phones have become to two most popular pastimes with a younger generation unaware of history or the lessons it should be teaching them.

A matter of perception

Statements that are designed to uplift the image of a military veteran in America are now often made fun of by the left, but at the same time, Democrats are more than willing to deficit spend on supplying Ukraine with weapons to fight Russia and possibly provoke a world war and even fund the border defenses of NATO countries while refusing to guard our own borders here in the US. The lives of Americans in the eyes of Democrats and the left are so worthless that they are more than willing to throw our troops into war at the very first opportunity but refuse to fund the VA so that our returning warriors can get proper medical treatment. This as millions of illegal aliens receive loaded debit cards, free housing, medical treatment, education, and transportation via DHS anywhere in the country they want to go. Such a convenience though is denied to our military veterans.

Multiple causes

War was once considered to be an inevitable product of political pressure and the desires of one nation to take over and occupy the resources of another region over territorial disputes or the simple lack of raw material that was needed to fulfill the needs of a growing population. As the centuries progressed, genocide, settling old grudges, and tribal conflicts fed the flames of destruction and mayhem. And so, men and material were sent into the “Meat Grinder” as many former veterans have been quoted as saying. The European nations have often been blamed for setting off wars as a result of colonialism as Great Britain, Spain, France, and the Dutch occupied many of the Pacific Islands up until 1942 which were captured by and fortified by the Japanese in World War II.

Blood spilled maintaining peace?

America was somehow stuck with the role of playing the global policeman after all the blood shed of World War II in Korea, Vietnam years later, and Desert Storm in Iran and the Middle East. With those conflicts came American veterans wounded, physically and emotionally, some being able to assimilate, but others simply not being able to. Leading to drug addiction, domestic violence, divorces, and suicides! America in the 20^th Century paid a terrible price in liberating the world from fascism, communism, and jihadist terrorism. Many would argue that some of these wars were ignited by false flag operations that were designed by those who stood to gain by supplying a war effort.

Warped perspectives

It's amazing how as time passes and the political climate becomes more and more twisted and we see our military heroes being belittled and characterized as villains. Such as George Washington who led an inferior and rag tag Continental Army to victory over the British with the most powerful army and navy in the world, so that the war of independence gave birth to America. Yet, he has been vilified as a slave owner.

Who really is the enemy?

General George Custer, demonized as being an oppressor of the Indian Nations has been forgotten as the only leader who stood between the successful occupation of Washington DC by the Confederate Army as they crossed the Potomac to invade the nation’s capital. It was Custer who rode up and down the crumbling Union defensive lines on horseback imploring his soldiers not to retreat and to maintain their positions. As a result, the Rebels were repulsed and though the Union suffered 70% casualties, Washington DC did not fall that day.

A sacrifice for what?

How could it be that our soldiers who served in Vietnam would come home to savage protesters who characterized them as murderers and village burners with some “Hippies” even dousing them with urine and feces upon their return home at the airports? Little wonder that PTSD was finally properly identified as a psychological condition and a result of battle fatigue triggered by the horrors of combat would begin to be addressed. The media has done a great job of portraying our fighting men in a negative light in order to support ending a war that was caused by the Communist infiltration by the North Vietnam into South Vietnam as the lies of Ho Chi Minh who claimed to be reunifying the two countries. At the cost of I million lives of the North itself without counting the South Vietnamese murdered by his so-called “People’s Liberation” of the south.

Little recognition

Unlike, Halloween, New Year’s Day, Christmas, and July 4^th, or Thanksgiving nobody is breaking out the hot dogs on the Barbeque or the beer. What celebrations there are will find little news coverage or mention, and definitely not by our social platforms or search engines! Scattered among cities and in Arlington Cemetery can one find an official acknowledgement of a day set aside for respect for those who stood between us and the enemy and were willing to sacrifice their lives so that we Americans could be safe from those who would destroy our nation and subjugate the public through martial law robbing us of our freedom as we have seen happen in too many corners of the world.

Those who paid the price

When my father returned from Korea after finishing his 2^nd tour of duty in the US Marine Corps as a gunnery sergeant, he grabbed a taxi in Los Angeles anxious to get home to his wife, my mother. He told the taxi cab driver that he’d just gotten in from Korea. Just as the general public’s response more often than not is, the reply was, “So what.” My father had left 19 buddies behind in that war torn miniature World War II battle of ideologies with the Communists. As I paraphrase Thomas Jefferson who once said, “Freedom is not free. It comes with a price.” Our veterans know very well what the cost of freedom is.