Killing this messenger won't change the message. The gross inability of people to focus on the topic(s) posted (like here) instead of gratuitously attacking others, as you did is an idication of how and why things are misunderstood.

Ed, the one who spent 13 months, (and a lifetime) as a grunt in Vietnam, a man who fears for our GIs like none of you who have never "been there, done that.” Neither my patriotism nor politics are the issues here. Nor is what any one of you think of me. Deal with the news, find out for yourself if what I posted is true or not. After all, you too have Google or whatever other means you use to find out.

Shelly, I served as a 106mm Recoilless Rifle gunner, earned the Bronze Star and Purple Heart w/oak leaf cluster. That puts me at the forefront of those who have the blasted /RIGHT/ to comment on this war, and any damn way I damn well please. You or anyone else questioning either my patriotism or my motives must have questions about your own.

I posted that news to inform, not to be castigated by the likes of you, a man whose reason for being seems to be this forum.

As I noted above, an attempt to slur me by you or others won't change the news I posted. Deal with the post, not me. Don't impugn my motives because you failed to investigate the news, choosing instead address your always acerbic words toward me.

Try, try from this point on Shelly, to address the message, not the messenger. It's the adult<[/I>, intelligent thing to do.