Comments on: Rule 5 Blogging: Silver Star Edition http://www.journal14.com/2012/11/10/rule-5-blogging-silver-star-edition/ President Obama’s real problem was that he ran his mouth, and issued an empty threat. Now, actually doing the right thing in Syria looks like weakness, and the President’s word cannot be either trusted or even taken seriously. Thu, 23 May 2013 01:51:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Hoagie http://www.journal14.com/2012/11/10/rule-5-blogging-silver-star-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-73642 Hoagie Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:59:53 +0000 http://www.journal14.com/?p=5646#comment-73642 "It's simple: they were soldiers, and they did their duty." It really is that simple, Mr. Editor. I'm not supprised with the actions of either soldier, but I am particularly humbled by SPC Brown having been an 82nd myself. Valor.....a word we don't hear much any more. Honor.... the trait most Americans don't practice. Selflessness.....something lost by the "me" generation. What will happen to us when our nation no longer produces people of this caliber and character? When "We are all socialists now" isn't just a tag line for a failing magazine but rather the punch line of a failing nation. At the risk of sounding like a child in the back seat of his dad's car..."are we there yet"? “It’s simple: they were soldiers, and they did their duty.”

It really is that simple, Mr. Editor. I’m not supprised with the actions of either soldier, but I am particularly humbled by SPC Brown having been an 82nd myself. Valor…..a word we don’t hear much any more. Honor…. the trait most Americans don’t practice. Selflessness…..something lost by the “me” generation. What will happen to us when our nation no longer produces people of this caliber and character? When “We are all socialists now” isn’t just a tag line for a failing magazine but rather the punch line of a failing nation. At the risk of sounding like a child in the back seat of his dad’s car…”are we there yet”?

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