still are.

It is always easy to send another off to war, but when you have to go yourself, things change.

Just a little history here, nothing much, but some people that actually showed they had they fortitude to go through with what they had proposed, and felt they had to do.

Lyndon Johnson gave up his seat in the House to join the Navy at the beginning of WWII.

Jimmy Carter Joined the Navy during WWII, and became a nuclear engineer in the nuclear Navy that was being born by Admiral Zumwald.

Richard Nixon joined the Navy, even though his parents were pretty much devout pacifists.

GHWB joined the Navy, (more on that, but it's a different story).

Audie Murphy was denied entry into the Marines and the Navy as being too short, he joined the Army and became the most decorated soldier of WWII.

Jimmy Stewart Joined the Army Air Corps.

The 5 Sullivan Brothers joined the Navy, and all died, because they felt the need to go to defend the nation.

Abe Lincoln had his hat shot off while going to visit wounded soldiers, he traveled on horseback w/o an escort.

Lincoln also stood upon a parapet in DC while Lee was preparing an attack, he was shot at several times.

Joshua Chamberlain begged his wife and school to join the Army because he believed that all men should be free. He actually had to sneak away from his wife, and beg for time off from Bowdoin College.

Over 2500 soldiers died on the beaches of Normandy because they believed that stopping Hitler was a necessity.

1200+ men on USS Indianapolis died because they were torpedoed after dropping off the A-Bomb on Tinian, they were heading home.

Men froze to death at Valley Forge because they believed that living under a king was a vile excuse for being alive.

Men froze to death and damn near starved while holding Bastogne against overwhelming odds.

The "Lost Battalion" suffered incredible casualties because they refused to give up the land they had taken during WWI.

Lincoln helped get us through the Civil War, at the cost of his life; FDR died while trying to finish off the Germans and Japanese.

Countless graves lie silent in Arlington, Normandy and across the globe, testaments to those who were willing to go into the fray, face the carnage. The 100th and 442n Regiments took over 100% casualties to prove that Japanese Americans were just as good as as citizens as any other Americans. Black men and Hispanics were treated like trash after the faced the tracers and artillery of an enemy they knew they had to beat, and returned to a bigoted US.

What do we have now? Cowards, every one...always asking or demanding that others do what they themselves would never contemplate. Picturing bush on a parapet outside Washington watching a battle is almost a joke in itself. The man is now, and has always been a coward. If in my Plt, he would be scrubbing trashcans w/a toothbrush.

I served in the Army, and I am damn proud that I did, my older brother served as well. Bill was drafted, I joined. We served because our nation called upon us to serve; as Americans we felt that it was part of out duty to serve...not all feel the same way, and one need nor wear the uniform to serve the nation. But whether we grow food for the nation, create the fuels necessary, repair the infrastructure, build the bridges, the roads...we all owe something to the nation that we call home.

Those that call for war, and will not fight for said war...are simply cowards, and as far as I'm concerned, not even Americans.