A Simple Thank You

SUPPORT THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES

Working at a customer service counter I get to see crazy people, people who are just plain assholes, but never before had a seen something so symbolic of the current state of the American People.
Standing in line holding a desktop PC in a box a woman waited patiently for me to finish what I was working on for a customer. This young woman was around the same age as me and was proudly wearing the uniform of a member if the Illinois National Guard. When I finished helping the customer I was with I looked up and before this young woman could step up to the counter another woman came barging through the front doors of the store with her 3 screaming kids who proceeded to draw on the counter, bother customers and trash a candy display all while talking on her cell phone. The second woman then proceeded to throw down a package and demanded we replace the product immediately and she wanted the new one tested so we wouldn’t sell her crap again (The item was $50 off brand MP3 player). All while this is going on at the counter, the woman in the uniform just smiles at me and steps back to again patiently wait for her turn to bring her computer to the counter, while she is standing there an older woman in her mid 50’s walks up to the soldier with her grandson, both the older woman and her grandchild where born in South American and immigrated here in the late 90’s. The older woman had her grandson offer to hold to computer for the soldier and thanked her for her service and for protecting the freedoms her and her family have come to cherish in their adoptive country. All while the busy American born woman could not be unconvinced enough to wait her turn in line.
What does is say about this county when a person who isn’t even an natural born citizen of this county can show more respect to the men and woman who dedicate their lived to defend it? I can understand not supporting a war, even I disagree with the handling of the war, but to disrespect the men and woman who serve, the men and women who defend the freedoms the people of this country take for granted every day, is bull shit. And that’s part of what I think the problem is in America, people want the right to freedom of speech but they don’t want to let people speak who offend them. People want freedom of religion but they want to push their religious views and perceived morals on those whose views differ than their own. While you may disagree with the war, the soldiers who fight that war are only following orders, doing what they are trained to do, fighting to the preservation of our freedoms. To use an old quote Freedom is not free, and its cost is blood.

SUPPORT THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES