tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395959113568829045.post1447298592215237088..comments2024-03-27T07:39:32.341-04:00Comments on Veteran AF: Who We Fight For--EverybodyNeil Gussmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04667154945595202472noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395959113568829045.post-51236006481434999482010-03-31T14:33:23.009-04:002010-03-31T14:33:23.009-04:00Carrie--thanks, it was great to serve with you. I...Carrie--thanks, it was great to serve with you. I hope we get a chance to have a drink when one of us travels to the other coast.<br /><br />salemonz--Same for you. If you are ever in eastern Pennsylvania, maybe just passing through, let me know. <br /><br />Papa Ray--I am way on the left side of the fence. I admire people I served with whatever their political beliefs, but I have no place in a party built on an Us vs. Them mentality. My grandparents escaped Russia when the Cossacks killed a million Jews at the end of the 19th Century. They missed the Nazi death camps because America let them in. Now I have two adopted sons, both African-American. I still see America as offering hope to immigrants and equality of opportunity to its citizens. I serve because I owe this country a debt I can never repay.Neil Gussmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04667154945595202472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395959113568829045.post-49839194184215576882010-03-30T22:18:38.647-04:002010-03-30T22:18:38.647-04:00Thank you for writing this Guss! This is amazing ...Thank you for writing this Guss! This is amazing and I appreciate your ability to put things into perspective! We, as soldiers, really do fight for everyone, not just the people who do things inline with our beliefs. Many of us fight, as our ancestor's did, for the rights of our fellow Americans to do things such as wave their signs in protest and march for the right to bear arms. Many days I wish everyone would be a little more accepting of other people and their choices, leaving the judgments to whatever power takes over when we leave this world. I look forward to reading your future posts, from the comfort of my home rather than the CHU in Iraq!carriesquiltsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395959113568829045.post-51889675396088322152010-03-29T11:00:05.268-04:002010-03-29T11:00:05.268-04:00I'm with you, brother. I've been active du...I'm with you, brother. I've been active duty enlisted Army since 2003, have a graduate degree and like those dead poets too.<br /><br />It pains me how ensconced my right and left friends are in hatred for each other.<br /><br />Also, all of the militant rhetoric is a little unsettling. I hear "pick a side", "you'll be sorry" and "they can only push us so far" a lot.salemonzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05623005050129036581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8395959113568829045.post-31901224173201773512010-03-26T23:45:38.092-04:002010-03-26T23:45:38.092-04:00I admire people in all groups. But America has slo...I admire people in all groups. But America has slowly divided itself into two groups. Liberals and Conservatives.<br /><br />I don't want to have to pick a side, nor try and explain to my kids and grand kids why there are two sides and that they will have to pick one sooner or later. But I have.<br /><br />America is in my opinion and the opinion of almost half of our Republic, is headed in the wrong direction.<br /><br />How it will turn out is now unknown. But battle lines are forming and things have happened in the last forty years that can't be changed without one half or the other being angry and unhappy.<br /><br />So, enjoy your seat on the fence while you can, because soon you will also have to pick a side.<br /><br />Even if you don't want to.<br /><br />Papa RayPapa Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11454201360366303944noreply@blogger.com