Comments on: Scott Kesterson: A Moment to Reflect

By: amr

amr — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:26:05 +0000

Last year when we guarded the Gold Star mothers at a counter demostration to the anti-war demonstration, a young man called President Bush a dictator. I nicely explained to him that if Bush was a dictator, he would have been shot dead by troops instead of being called out by us. He didn’t understand the meaning of my words. Such stupidity. Maybe he needed to be in Greece some years ago, as I was, to understand my words when I woke up to tanks roaring down the streets under the military dictatorship. Such citizens have no frame of reference to judge their ignorance.

By: denise

denise — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:40:52 +0000

I make it a practice not to read Huffington, but wanted to check out a few of the comments. Now I remember why I don’t read Huffington. The anti-war crowd’s comments don’t reflect opinions of all of us.
Many of us are grateful for your service and sacrifice. We ‘get it’ that the enemy hates us for our freedom and that you are working hard to keep us safe and free. God bless you.
I do understand your disappointment and dejection, troops, as I am feeling that way too. Add disgusted to that…

By: denise

denise — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:33:02 +0000

Rick, Why would honorable soldiers not vote? If they fight for our rights= one being,the right to vote, seems logical to me that they should be able to vote.
Honorable people should support our troops. We would all be better off if that could be practiced by the LEFT.
Our troops are my heroes.

By: Rick Schwag

Rick Schwag — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:23:53 +0000

In the past, honorable soldiers refrained from voting. We would all be better off of this practice continued.

Rick Schwag

cuba@together.net

By: Erin

Erin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:10:20 +0000

I will fight for the troops while i am here in the states. I belong to the vets for freedom and i am a military mom. I will never let the democrats or the new president hurt you or let you down. i will fight him at ever turning point. In my heart i can never call him president. I have fought these guys for eight years to get the funding needed for you guys. The names that they called our soldiers was terrible. The democrats do not care about the troops at all because they are anti war people and hang with people like code pink. Some of them i dealt with back in the vietnam days and i will fight to see they don;t hurt you guys like they did back then. I will pray for you guys. The commander in chief you had did care about you and i have worked with him so he got the funding you guys need. This new one coming in i don;t trust him at all. The team he is surrounding himself with comes from the clinton era and they hurt the military back then. Let me know if i can do anything for you guys ok.

By: MsUnderestimated

MsUnderestimated — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:26:55 +0000

Rock on, Scott. Don’t let the hate get to you. It’s blind and it can’t discern vitriol from thoughtful prose. Yours is the latter. Loved both your posts at HuffPo, but I will not stoop to commenting there for the exact reasons you state here.

God bless you, sir.

By: David M

David M — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:20:10 +0000

The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blog post From the Front: 11/10/2008 News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.

By: Bouhammer

Bouhammer — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:26:27 +0000

I encourage all to head over to the huff post and voice your concerns and feelings in a comment. Let the sick bastards over there know that not everyone thinks like them.

By: magic

magic — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:35:10 +0000

Our warriors are NOT out of the mainstream. The people are behind them, and their mission. HuffPo commenters aren’t exactly people who will reflect mainstream opinion. First, the funding for this election was lopsided. Obama spent in one hour what McCain could spend in a week. No contest.

The media suppressed negative information about Obama, and played up the positive. Their own reviews post-election show they themselves understand there was a bias that affected this outcome. They shaped and manipulated public opinion, rather than educating and informing it. They’ve lost all credibility and legitimacy, and their ratings and subscription rates show it.

Hours after Obama was elected, Farrakhan announced a return of the Nation of Islam, and Bill Ayers came out advocating the education reform that began in the 1970s. Obama slipped up and showed his true self with the Nancy Reagan joke. Those moderates and independents, and conservatives, who thought Obama was an okay alternative, and believed the centrist portrait the media strained to paint, will soon be disabused of that naive notion.

The rank censorship evidenced in this election will continue, and strengthen under Obama. He’s not real big on diversity of opinion, and neither are his disciples.

Soldiers simply understand the reality of this enemy, and what’s required to defeat them. It’s always nice if your CinC understands the enemy, too. We’ll soon see if this new guy does.

By: Old Blue

Old Blue — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:42:08 +0000

While the US Armed Forces are a melting pot of our society, those who join typically tend towards one end of the political spectrum, I think. It is not a rule, but by my observation it is a strong tendency. There is a new intolerance growing in the United States. It is not based on race, or creed, but on ideology.

There are a large group of very vocal people who feel greatly empowered by recent events to express their rage, and to attempt to suppress opposition. Their intolerance will further drive the wedge. This has not by any means come to its zenith, I think.

When the nation’s warriors find themselves anathema to the “mainstream” at home, it is a terrible thing. This is what will make this war more like Viet Nam than anything else.