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Saturday, November 24, 2007

How Can We Support the Troops?

Todd Epp from SD Watch reports that Lt. Col Paula Johnson (USA Retired) is organizing a holiday support effort for our troops overseas.

I’m grateful for what Lt Col Johnson and many others are doing during the holiday season to show the troops we love and support them; my daughter’s Ju-Jitsu dojo is doing something similar.

But at the risk of sounding like a killjoy, I think that if you feel the need to crow that, “See, we have ‘Tangible Proof that Minnehaha County Democrats Support Our Troops’,” then that indicates you have a serious problem with that perception in your political-social circle. One might ask oneself why that perception problem exists…

In addition to such a commendable effort as this, an even better way to show support for the troops might be not allowing others in your social-political sphere compare the troops to Nazis and communist butchers. Another way would be to condemn those within your social-political sphere who say that the troops are fighting for a lie, that they’re participating in a “blood for oil campaign,” and that they’re dying for nothing. Still another way to support the troops would be to refuse to stand for people within your social-political sphere calling our leading general a traitor who “betrays us,” and not to tell the troops that they’ve lost the war. Finally, another good way to support the troops might be to stop trying to pull the financial and logistical rug out from under them, preventing them from doing the job they were sent to do.

But “tangible proof” is always good, too.


2 comments:

Todd Epp at S.D. Watch said...

So Bob, I suppose your donation for the troops is in the mail to us so we'll have it by Wednesday?

Bob Ellis said...

It's by the door to go with me and my daughter to her Ju-Jitsu class's collection effort tonight. But thanks for checking.

I hope you had a great Thanksgiving, Todd!

 
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