The Ungrateful United States

It is in my opinion that Americans are ungrateful selfish people who have absolutely no idea what it is that our soldiers and their families go through every single day. I am enraged and at times ashamed to call myself an American. I am not saying that you have to be patriotic. I am not saying you don't have your rights, but dammit, show a little appreciation for what our soldiers are doing in the sandbox. Yeah, we are in a country that we shouldn't be in any longer, but we are Americans!!! We don't quit. We keep on going. The pilgrims didn't stop because they came across some really hard, impossible difficulties. They figured it out, the stuck to it, yes, many died, but because of those brave people, we now have a country, this great USA, were you can spit on the Holy Bible if you so choose, God forbid.

When you see a soldier flying on an airplane, don't think " murderer" " rapist" or "baby killer". Realize that he has been away from his family, that he is about ready to pee his pants he is so excited to see his daughter, who was only three months old when he left, excited to see his son, to see how well he can throw a ball and kick a football, that he is excited to finally be held by the one woman who stood by him through out his deployment. Excited, and terribly nervous. How much can a person change in a year, what if the kids don't remember me, what if my wife has changed drastically. How am I going to be able to sleep next to another human being after seeing what I have seen?

Those people who say such terrible things about our troops are ungrateful. You scream these things only because you are terrified that you recognize a blood lust within yourself. You imagine what it would be like to kill a person. How would you do it? Would you use a gun, a knife, maybe your hands...

So when you see a soldier, appreciate that they are witnessing horrifying things so that you selfish sick individuals don't have too.

Oh, and just because one man, or soldier does something, doesn't mean the entire army is the same way. It's not like mass hysteria, were one person is screaming and fleeing, or raping and killing, so everyone else has to. Many of our great and wonderful soldiers have more honor and integrity than that.