Supporting our Troops -Standing For Those Who Stood For Us

[trystinn]

Don't watch this if you're at work or feeling emotionally fragile.

I want to show folks what Supporting Our Troops all too often means.

This isn't about whether those folks supported the war, Gods knows we didn't. It's about multiple counties standing in recognition of one death: public utilities forming arches with ladder trucks, fire trucks blocking intersections for the funeral procession, billboards displaying the soldier's picture and just everyday folks who show up to witness the sacrifice of our military families.

Want to make a PGR Rider cry? Ask him how often the PGR is the only recognition from the community the family receives at a funeral.

I posted this because on the 64th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, I want to remind folks of the true cost of war.

Comments

[wastedmouthfull.livejournal.com]

And to the town of Snohomish during a parade when the American flag goes by you take your hats off and jump to your feet.
I came to conclude that allot of the patriotic talk is just that talk.

[unique-thesame.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing this. I'll be posting it in my journal as well. It's good to see the positive in something so terrible.

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[lore-of-lore.livejournal.com]

At the airbase in Ontario where soldiers' bodies return home, every time you hear about how people lined the roads around the base and have flags, but the funerals are usually announced in the papers as private.

I read the video's description and I must agree with the Michael Jackson stuff. Blargh. But then again, more people can relate (if that's the right word) to MJ's death because they "knew" him "personally." Not many people actually think of how a war and the troops going overseas affects them in the whole "they're protecting us" way. I'm usually one of them. It's 'cause I'm Canadian, seriously. Driving in WA with Trystn, we went under an overpass and there was a guy standing there waving a flag and I think I actually said "Who's the whackjob?" It just doesn't happen here on a daily basis. We are proud of our country, but we don't all have flags hanging, and we don't have tributes to the flag and our troops at the end of every dinner show or theatre performance. But then again, I guess that's because Canada + Armed Forces = Laughable, isn't it?