They died for this thing we call 2013 America?
They died for an all-powerful, unaccountable IRS that harasses and targets people who disagree with the current presidential administration (and so far getting away with it)? ("I didn't do nuttin' wrong, I plead the Fifth," said the IRS' Lois "Lame" Lerner this week).
They died for a Justice Department that's apparently never met a news reporter that it wasn't willing to secretly surveil and monitor (and so far getting away with it)?
They died so that a president's mouthpieces, for purely partisan political reasons, can repeatedly lie to the American people (and get away with it) about what happened the day when an American ambassador was raped and murdered (2nd pic above) and several Americans were killed in an Al Qaeda terrorist attack abroad?
They died so that two terrible presidents and two rotten parties over 13 years can explode the national debt and annual deficit to levels that are utterly unsustainable and that will eventually result in complete economic chaos and violent civil unrest nationwide? (That happens when a country can no longer pay the welfare state obligations that it previously assumed).
They died for a populace more interested in sporting events, reality shows, smartphones and singing contests than paying an ounce of attention to all the shit that's going on all around them?
They died for a news media which has more freedom than in any country in world history, but which chooses to exercise that freedom in order to be political advocates instead of the watchdogs of authority?
They died for a nation in which amoebic economic growth, high unemployment, and a diminishing standard of living are now simply accepted by everyone under the moronic cliche, "new normal."
If only there could have been a full disclosure to these fallen heroes. Something to let them know where things were heading. Because then, they might just have said, "you can take this uniform and shove it up your ass."
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