Say Anything Blog

These men and women cannot have enough of our admiration, praise and thanks. They are determined to get the job done, and ensure that we wake up free every morning.

We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. - George Orwell

I have been telling anyone who would hold still for 1/10th of a second this was happening for 18 months.

Those with integrity attach themselves to honest people and the United States Constitution which also authorized the US Army.  Freedom of association to associate with those who embrace those noble values is one of the first ten bill of rights.

The Truth:  I was a Webelos Den Leader and Assistant Scoutmaster of a Boy Scout Troop for about eight years.  When we raised our standards and enforced discipline as well as expecting hard work, our numbers went up and in fact, we had a waiting list the last years I was there. 

Good people generally do not want anything to do with bad people.

http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/2006/05/republican-states-are-safer.html

About 200,000 troops have been in Iraq.  The majority will not re-enlist, and many will be hurt for life, mentally and physically.

I hope you are all there to pay for their rehabilitation, both emotional and physical, because I understand Bush has cut benefits.

Here’s one that won’t be re-enlisting:

www.newhousenews.com/archive/roberts050806.html

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PORTLAND, Ore.—Jared Guinther is 18. Tall and lanky, he will graduate from high school in June. Girls think he’s cute, until they try to talk to him and he stammers or just stands there—silent.

Diagnosed with autism at age 3, Jared is polite but won’t talk to people unless they address him first. It’s hard for him to make friends. He lives in his own private world.

Jared didn’t know there was a war raging in Iraq until his parents told him last fall—shortly after a military recruiter stopped him outside a Portland strip mall and complimented his black Converse All-Stars.

"When Jared first started talking about joining the Army, I thought, `Well, that isn’t going to happen,"’ said Paul Guinther, Jared’s father. "I told my wife not to worry about it. They’re not going to take anybody in the service who’s autistic."

But they did. Last month, Jared came home with papers showing that he had not only enlisted, but signed up for the Army’s most dangerous job: cavalry scout. He is scheduled to leave for basic training Aug. 16.

Officials are now investigating whether recruiters at the U.S. Army Recruiting Station in southeast Portland improperly concealed Jared’s disability, which should have made him ineligible for service.

What happened to Jared is a growing national problem as the military faces increasing pressure to hit recruiting targets during an unpopular war.

Thank goodness for some papers:

http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060510/NEWS06/60510039

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An 18-year-old Portland man with autism, whose recruitment renewed questions about Army practices, was released Tuesday from his enlistment contract.

Jared Guinther signed up for one of the Army’s most dangerous jobs, cavalry scout, after being heavily recruited. He passed medical and other examinations. He was scheduled to leave for basic training in August.

The Army announced Tuesday that it decided he didn’t meet enrollment criteria, two days after The Oregonian newspaper reported his parents’ objections.

 And speaking of re-enlisting:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR2006051002061_pf.html

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The Army Reserve, taxed by recruiting shortfalls and war-zone duty, has adopted a policy barring officers from leaving the service if their field is undermanned or they have not been deployed to Iraq, to Afghanistan or for homeland defense missions.

The reserve has used the unpublicized policy, first adopted in 2004 and strengthened in a May 2005 memo signed by Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly, its commander, to disapprove the resignations of at least 400 reserve officers, according to Army figures.

"I don’t think during a time of war you would want to let people go when you have a shortage of people," Army Reserve spokesman Steve Stromvall said when asked to comment on the memo, which surfaced during litigation over the policy. At least 10 reserve officers have sued the Army, saying they should be allowed to get out because they have finished their mandatory eight years of service.

Shirkers.

Or maybye they just weren’t ‘battle hardened’.

And here is one who did not get away:

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h7/Alnot54/mage002.jpg

We are in a battle of good vs. evil as my previous post was made painfully clear.  Good people die and are wounded.  The point is that they were doing the noble thing.  Those who are ignorant of evil in the world, or worse, who are communist/socialist/criminal are liars.

We shoud fully support those who have and are defending our freedoms.  Just stay out of the way if you can’t or won’t help.