Sunday, November 11, 2007
Michael Graham describes the behavior of the Iraq Veterans Against the War and their Code Pink friends at today's Veterans Day event in Boston: What REALLY Happened At Today's Boston Veteran's Day Parade:
Far from honoring American heroes, these self-absorbed jerks flew the American flag upside down, in the presence of hundreds of people who had been shot at to keep that same flag flying above battlefields abroad.
It turned my stomach, not for any insult towards me--these "VFP" lame-brains can't make a complete sentence, much less an argument worthy of being taken seriously--but for their incredible insult to the veterans.
Once these egomaniacs brought the program to a stop, once they had ensured everyone saw their junior-high-level "statement," the assumption was that they would at least have the decency to go away.
Wrong...
According to Graham's explanation, the other veterans (or veterans period...according to Graham some of these folks weren't vets, just hangers-on) were exceedingly patient. I heard the local head of this group on the radio yesterday whining that they weren't going to be allowed to participate. Well this is why. They're not there to participate like anyone else (honest question: are there any other vet's groups included with a political message like these guys), they were there to disrupt the event. Both on the radio and at the anti-war event on the Boston Common, this guy's script was the same. He doesn't believe in the system, he believes in direct action, and he's the guy with all the answers. Dangerous.
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B. G. Burkett would attend various memorial services with his fellow Vietnam Veterans. He noticed that the media inevitably ignored him and his fellow well-adjusted, well-off vets in favor of the handful of homeless men in dirty cammies with horror stories. So he started investigating them and discovered, not surprisingly, that the Professional Deranged Vietnam Vets were fakers; if they'd served at all, it was as clerk-typists in Germany or something.
The current paradigm is that Iraq = Vietnam. As far as the media's coverage of vets goes, this is dead on.