How do you support the troops?

Question

I try to make sure their benefits aren't taken away.

Answer 1

I know many... When I see them for the first time after returning to the states, I thank them for their service.

Regarding currently deployed troops, I hound my congresscritters to fully fund them and tell them to not snatch defeat out of our victorious hands...

Do you hear this Dingy Harry Reid of NV?

Answer 2

The tenor of much of the “support our troops” talk on the streets, over dinner tables, in the employee lounge, reflected the great ambivalence folk had about this war. When I spoke to regular people, in conversations, the support of this war was thin and brittle, ambivalent and highly qualified. If the war lasts too long, kills too many civilians, kills too many of “our troops”, et cetera, support will drop precipitously, so the supporters told pollsters for months before it began. What “too many” or “too long” meant was unclear, but underscored the qualms of the hesitant hawks.

Yellow ribbons were first widely used to throttle dissent in the 1991 Gulf War. Like all wars, it seemed, to those running it, a good idea at the time. Like all wars, it was full of ugly surprises. Like all wars, it was sold with lies and half-lies, and like all war, it was the working class of the world who paid for it, with their money, health and lives. For the US people, whose physical geographic isolation is still a significant factor in this shrinking world, it was the first Superpower Superbowl. War as a spectator sport has long been the American norm. We “go to” war. War is not fought on our land, not for over a century. Even the terrorist actions of “cold” or “civil” or “religious” wars - think Belfast, Beirut, Gujarat, Gaza - are rarely on US territory. When such attacks have occurred here they have been isolated incidents.

Answer 3

As a veteran myself the only ones trying to take away our benefits are the Congressmen and women who add to the bill for increases on the benefits their own personal pork. This is only done because it is so easy to use the primary bill as a snivel point to sneak your own selfish almost parasite attachment to a bill you know will be a concern to all Americans.

Answer 4

i try as hard as i can to get any out of office who think that the war in iraq is just or even needed - dem or repube.

i also own a company and send donations to the troops as often as is practical, generally once a year we send over a large care package.

i also try very hard to help out of work vets, by either employing them or referring them to other friends who own businesses.