Thanks, Thomas. You do have it right way down inside where it counts. The people who willingly fight and die in the service of this country must be honored whether one agrees with the policies underlying their sacrifice or not. By and large they do what they do because they believe in this country and its underlying values
The excesses of vanity, selfishness and power that you describe in the rest of the article are wrong and need fixing. Sports and political excesses, our inherent selfisness and all the dark side of what America is do not serve us well. But, it's not a Republican or Democrat thing. Power breeds expected privilege and our Congress, as one example, is now and always has been replete with power brokers who do the country a disservice when their motives are less than altruistic. The underlying problem is the corruptible 'us,' as Pogo knew so well.
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"If I can't be any of these, then I want to be just a simple blue-state red-state American. I want to take time on this Thanksgiving to thank God I live in a country where, despite so much rampant selfishness, the public schools still manage to produce young men and women ready to voluntarily risk their lives in places like Iraq and Afghanistan to spread the opportunity of freedom and to protect my own. And I want to thank them for doing this, even though on so many days in so many ways we really don't deserve them."
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