"M Power"  wrote 
 
 I'm not jealous at all.  But I really don't like the fact that someone 
 so un-deserving of all this is getting so much. 
 
It's just a piece of cloth.  Get a grip boy. 
 
 There are hundreds of 
 veterans from Afghanistan and Iraq that went through more than she 
 did, and got squat. 
 
They got combat pay, they earned their citizenship, what else is there? 
 
 A young Marine had his leg blown off from a 
 landmine right in front of me.  He got stitched up, awarded a Purple 
 Heart and sent home.  He's recieved nothing that comes close to what 
 PFC Lynch has recieved. 
 
Violin sounds.  You are breaking my heart. 
 
 It's unfair, and it ****es me off. 
 
People driving solo in a car-pool lane does the same for me. 
 
 If that 
 makes me jealous, or rude, or whatever you want to call it...so be it. 
 
You are 8-Up my friend.  Get your **** back in the sack. 
 
  But with all of the actual heros we have in this country (other war 
 vets, firefighters from 911, etc...), it truly bothers me that someone 
 who isn't a hero at all gets treated like one.  I won't apologize or 
 feel bad for feeling this way. 
 
She's a hero because we say she is, and your vote doesn't count. 
 
I feel good she got a piece of cloth, but I feel even better that she 
didn't get zapped.  That's the truth.  I feel that way about all people 
who don't get zapped in the ultimate game we call armed conflict. 
 
 
 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
	
		 
			
 
			
			
			
				 
            
			
			
            
            
                
			
			
		 
		
	
	
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