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Honor our veterans and support our troops

Today is Veterans Day.  It’s an appropriate time to remember that for at least the past one hundred years, the greatest force for good on this planet has been the United States military. The men and women of our armed forces have rescued more people from tyranny, liberated more captive nations, freed more women from oppression, and provided more assistance to victims of natural disaster than any other entity that has ever existed throughout humanity’s long history.  It is our veterans, not our politicians or pundits that offered up their lives for the cause of American freedom and safety.

The peace at any price crowd, the self-important academics, the pandering elected officials who try to buy votes by transferring funds out of military budgets and veterans programs and into give-away programs that are little more than thinly disguised bribes  for support in the next election should also remember that these heroes are human.  The dangerous and frankly idiotic cuts to our defense spending over the past several years have meant that our active, reserve, and national guard Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines must serve repeated tours facing danger and being away from their families.  These cuts have been so significant that by next year America may have a smaller army than North Korea.

Honor our veterans. But put real substance behind the words by making life easier for the heroes who today stand as the only barrier between freedom and the growing forces that would destroy America.