The Monday letter, “Our soldiers did not die in vain,” said in part, “Many young men volunteered after Sept. 11, 2001 because of their patriotism. They were not drafted. If they had been, I could understand resentment to the war as genuine.”
Of the hundreds of thousands of personnel who have been cycled through our current wars, just how many were “patriots” who volunteered as a result of 9/11? And just who is in position to decide whose resentment is “genuine”?
This letter also included the statement, “… his (President Obama) statement during the campaign that the young men who died there did so in vain was reckless, unpatriotic, and borne from his own personal idealism which is obviously antagonistic go our American heritage.”
The writer is joking, right?
Lonnie W. Williams Sr.
Everett
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