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AllFair4H
AllFair4H
IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 11 2011, 7:01 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 11 2011, 7:01 PM EDT
PLEASE keep posts and comments to the subject of this thread. I will wander in and review it periodically for irrelevant, naughty, or disrespectful comments and delete them as I find them. It isn't right to commandeer a thread for your purposes when others recieve a small measure of comfort from posting here.

THANK YOU for your cooperation, now please feel free to post. Do you find this valuable?    
maui_mandy85
maui_mandy85
1. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 19 2011, 5:27 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 19 2011, 5:27 AM EDT
All I can say to you on this is I am proud to be an American, and I proud to know so many that serve or have served- whether it be classmates, friends or family (and I have some in all three categories). Our service members, and ANYONE who decides it is their calling to serve community, state or nation, deserves a HUGE Thank You! Do you find this valuable?    
CSIMiamiChic4eva
CSIMiamiChic4eva
2. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 20 2011, 11:14 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 20 2011, 11:14 PM EDT
"PLEASE keep posts and comments to the subject of this thread. I will wander in and review it periodically for irrelevant, naughty, or disrespectful comments and delete them as I find them. It isn't right to commandeer a thread for your purposes when others recieve a small measure of comfort from posting here.

THANK YOU for your cooperation, now please feel free to post."
They deserve a huge thanks. Bigger than anyone could ever give. They are the reason we have a freedom, and most likely our lives.
If you know a service member, give them a hug for me :) Do you find this valuable?    
kreemienewgatt
kreemienewgatt
3. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 20 2011, 11:39 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 20 2011, 11:39 PM EDT
"They are the reason we have a freedom,"
Freedom? You've never read the PATRIOT Act, which crapped all over the 4th Amendment. Do you find this valuable?    
CSIMiamiChic4eva
CSIMiamiChic4eva
4. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 21 2011, 12:01 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 21 2011, 12:01 AM EDT
"Freedom? You've never read the PATRIOT Act, which crapped all over the 4th Amendment."
Er...I have no idea. And what you said just made no sense Do you find this valuable?    
maui_mandy85
maui_mandy85
5. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 25 2011, 5:33 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 25 2011, 5:33 AM EDT
"Freedom? You've never read the PATRIOT Act, which crapped all over the 4th Amendment."
Okay, I have to agree with you there. But I also agree with CSIMC. Without those that serve, whether it be as a soldier, or as police/firefighter/paramedic, etc., the country would be really bleak, IMO. As I said in my first post, I know quite a few people that have served- at various levels and in various uniforms. They are the ones that have fought to make sure that we have the ability to make our laws, rather than have them made for and forced on us. Do you find this valuable?    
kreemienewgatt
kreemienewgatt
6. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 25 2011, 2:18 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 25 2011, 2:18 PM EDT
"Okay, I have to agree with you there. But I also agree with CSIMC. Without those that serve, whether it be as a soldier, or as police/firefighter/paramedic, etc., the country would be really bleak, IMO. As I said in my first post, I know quite a few people that have served- at various levels and in various uniforms. They are the ones that have fought to make sure that we have the ability to make our laws, rather than have them made for and forced on us. "
You're right, but only up to WW2. Every other conflict we've been involved in has been a farce. I don't fault our soldiers/airmen/Marines, but we live in a security state. We have 5% of the world's population, and 25% of the world's prisoners. We execute people who are most assuredly innocent. So much for freedom.

As to firefighters, paramedics, and most police officers, they're my heroes. Teachers, too. Do you find this valuable?    
maui_mandy85
maui_mandy85
7. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 26 2011, 6:14 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 26 2011, 6:14 AM EDT
"You're right, but only up to WW2. Every other conflict we've been involved in has been a farce. I don't fault our soldiers/airmen/Marines, but we live in a security state. We have 5% of the world's population, and 25% of the world's prisoners. We execute people who are most assuredly innocent. So much for freedom.

As to firefighters, paramedics, and most police officers, they're my heroes. Teachers, too."
I agree about the other conflicts being farces- and that lays completely at the feet of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among other people, not at the feet of the soldiers that had to do the dirty work.
As to your last comment- they're my heroes too! Do you find this valuable?    
CSIMiamiChic4eva
CSIMiamiChic4eva
8. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 26 2011, 8:44 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 26 2011, 8:44 AM EDT
"You're right, but only up to WW2. Every other conflict we've been involved in has been a farce. I don't fault our soldiers/airmen/Marines, but we live in a security state. We have 5% of the world's population, and 25% of the world's prisoners. We execute people who are most assuredly innocent. So much for freedom.

As to firefighters, paramedics, and most police officers, they're my heroes. Teachers, too."
I agree. My bro is a firefighter. Do you find this valuable?    
kreemienewgatt
kreemienewgatt
9. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 27 2011, 2:08 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 27 2011, 2:08 AM EDT
". . .and most police officers, "
Not this cop

http://www.break.com/index/police-officer-tases-handicapped-man-2127178 Do you find this valuable?    
kreemienewgatt
kreemienewgatt
10. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 27 2011, 2:09 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 27 2011, 2:09 AM EDT
"I agree. My bro is a firefighter."
Good on him
*salutes 4eva's brother* Do you find this valuable?    
maui_mandy85
maui_mandy85
11. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 27 2011, 5:05 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 27 2011, 5:05 AM EDT
You know, I received a bracelet after 9/11. My aunt bought it, and the funds from the sales were going into a fund to help support the families of the first responders, etc. of the Two Towers. There was a bracelet made for every one of them that didn't make it out, and the bracelets were packaged with a certificate that told you something about this particular person. They also gave you the option of having that person's name engraved on the back of the bracelet. My aunt had mine engraved, and the guy that my bracelet was for was a firefighter. The certificate doesn't really say much about the person except to say what profession they were in and where they were stationed. I did some research on my guy and discovered that he left behind a wife and three children- 2 girls and a boy. I'm really glad that I, in some convoluted way, had a small part in helping that family make it through the last 10 years.
And I've added a few places to my list of places and things to visit: The 9/11 memorials at Ground Zero and the Pentagon, and the Brooklyn Wall. Do you find this valuable?    
CSIMiamiChic4eva
CSIMiamiChic4eva
12. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 27 2011, 5:02 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 27 2011, 5:02 PM EDT
"Good on him
*salutes 4eva's brother*"
Aww! That was sweet. Thanks kreemie :) Do you find this valuable?    
CSIMiamiChic4eva
CSIMiamiChic4eva
13. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 27 2011, 5:04 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 27 2011, 5:04 PM EDT
"Not this cop

http://www.break.com/index/police-officer-tases-handicapped-man-2127178"
Omg!! That cop is messed up!! Do you find this valuable?    
maui_mandy85
maui_mandy85
14. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 28 2011, 4:29 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 28 2011, 4:29 AM EDT
"Omg!! That cop is messed up!!"
Agreed! Do you find this valuable?    
kreemienewgatt
kreemienewgatt
15. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 28 2011, 6:05 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 28 2011, 6:05 AM EDT
"Omg!! That cop is messed up!!"
That's not the only one. The NYPD has acted more like the Gestapo recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgr3DiqWYCI

Still think we live in a "free" country?
. Do you find this valuable?    
CSIMiamiChic4eva
CSIMiamiChic4eva
16. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 30 2011, 12:47 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 30 2011, 12:49 AM EDT
"Still think we live in a "free" country?"
Touche :/ Do you find this valuable?    
maui_mandy85
maui_mandy85
17. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE THAT SERVE
Sep 30 2011, 4:25 AM EDT | Post edited: Sep 30 2011, 4:25 AM EDT
"That's not the only one. The NYPD has acted more like the Gestapo recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgr3DiqWYCI

Still think we live in a "free" country?
."
All I can say to that is it could be much worse! Do you find this valuable?    
kreemienewgatt
kreemienewgatt
18. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO SERVE
Sep 30 2011, 2:04 PM EDT | Post edited: Sep 30 2011, 2:05 PM EDT
"All I can say to that is it could be much worse!"
True. And it could be much better. And should be. And hopefully will be. Do you find this valuable?    
maui_mandy85
maui_mandy85
19. RE: IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO SERVE
Oct 2 2011, 6:07 AM EDT | Post edited: Oct 2 2011, 6:07 AM EDT
"True. And it could be much better. And should be. And hopefully will be."
Also very true. I'll have to look into starting the change- when I finish school for Admin of Justice...and become part of the Justice system. Do you find this valuable?    

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