Quote:
Originally posted by cool_chick
Plus, what else does the right do? Other than revering Bush as some God or something....?????
Does anyone on the right who "supports" the troops ever donate money for supplies? Does anyone on the right have a penpal over there? Does anyone on the right send needed supplies for a soldier on their own?
If anyone REALLY wants to support the troops, contact your local VFW to get involved. It's a great feeling to REALLY support the troops...try it (instead of bashing "liberals" - liberals meaning anyone who doesn't support Bush's poor decision to send troops in harms way to IRAQ....just IRAQ...as your only form of "support").
|
I'll skip past your first two questions and go right to the next three. Yes, yes, and yes. I belong to a fairly active motorcycle club; outsiders would consider us somewhat "right wing" (we call it "patriotic"); many are vets. We have, in the last year, sent half a dozen "care packages" to one of our member's units. Food, music and movie cd's and dvd's, magazines, anything to remind them of home. We also send cash; not that they can use it over there; the cash goes to their families here. He has e-mail; many of us write him amost daily. By the way, our member who is over there re-joined the Army Rangers at the ripe old age of 52. Do a search on "Darcy Richardson"; it's quite a story. He was home on leave a couple of weeks ago and attended a club meeting. Words could not express his gratitude, and his unit's gratitude.
The same holds true for my church. Many younger members are over there. We provide the same support; things from home and some financial help for their families, if they have one. We write them a lot. We are a very conservative, small, Lutheran church. Most of us would be considered "right wing" by those who like to label everything, but we do have a significant membership that could be called "left wing". Nobody within the church really knows or cares how other members voted; there are more important things that unite us.
In both groups, we are pretty quiet about our support. We do not do it to make a statement or gain publicity. I suspect most that "support our troops" are the same way. We just don't feel the need to call attention to our support; we just do it.