Veterans.....Z's blog salutes you....and she's a bit angry

A big salute to a group (here's the LINK) called ANGELS4SOLDIERS which would like the support of famous sports figures in paying for statues of a soldier with an angel on his shoulders (as if it's guarding over him) in every military hospital in America. You can see the sculpture/statue on their site. Here's a bit from the linked blog: We are asking for each American Professional Sports team to consider being ‘Sports Heroes to honor our ‘War Heroes’ by sponsoring one life-sized sculpture to be placed in each and every Military Hospital in America. The most common phrase I hear from Veterans regarding this sculpture is “If you’ve ever been in a foxhole, you know you have a guardian angel." This group feels that our soldiers think a lot of great sports teams and sports heroes and that if they see statues dedicated to them BY their favorite teams and heroes, that would be a great morale booster! See how you can help them out.......there's plenty of information on the blog. Elmer's Brother met the people involved in this and blogged on it...HERE..... He brought them to my attention and I, too, thought it would be a very worthwhile blog for Veteran's Day.

AND...Don't forget Applebee's Offer for TODAY, Vets........see THIS.

To all veterans...particularly those who blog and comment here..........THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, from the bottom of my heart. Mr Z was a great supporter of our troops and I am, too. God bless you ALL.

But, NOW I AM ANGRY: I just saw THIS ARTICLE about a gunman who went into a school and held an assist. principal hostage with a disassembled shotgun over the fact, he says, that our servicemen aren't treated properly. You know where the media's going to go with this... It's not about this INSANE PERSON WHO'D THREATEN ANOTHER HUMAN BEING, it'll be all about his gripe, that damned army, anyway....right? Add this to Major Hasan's cold blooded murder of 13 of America's soldiers at Ft Hood and see how the media's making this about WHY? and how it's PRE TRAUMATIC STRESS, and my goodness...that darned army, again....... Then read stories about families at home without their soldiers and what problems they've having (skip over the thousands of families adjusting just fine even in their great sacrifice) and the suicide rate's finally reached a tad more than civilian population, and well, WHY HAVE AN ARMY? Does any OTHER country's media highlight only the worst about their armed services? NO. But, America? SURE!! What the HELL is going on in this wimp country that doesn't know what should be addressed privately and what should be splashed all over every big city newspapers just to make a leftwinger's point about WAR?

I'm done now. Sadly, I think this great country is, too. End of rant. Happy Vet's Day, anyway...to all those service people who can actually ignore this stuff and still stand tall. You're a better man than I am. Semper Fi.
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