...and freedom to continue harping on imaginary, and exaggerated "scandals". You know what... if we had in WWII the media coverage we have now, people would look at that war and its veterans in a completely different light. It's war. It's ugly and it's not intended, nor should it EVER BE, a spectator's sport.

My grandfather is a Pearl Harbor survivor, and he lost two brothers in WWII. I revere that man, and I tear up when I think of the sacrifice he and all other WWII vets made. Yet I know that there were scoundrels in the service back then as there are now. Don't believe the media. Talk to vets. Talk to the ones who bleed, not the ones who profit from sensationalism. When you talk to the vets, you begin to realize, even on some tiny scale, the value of laying down your life for another human. Support the war or not, but don't frag our men and women by giving up on this country. My grandfather and his two dead brothers didn't go through it so you or anyone else could sit around and whine about what they perceive to be the truth presented to them by an absolutely corrupt media.

Honor them. Learn from them.

Freedom isn't free, it isn't environmentally friendly, and it isn't politically correct.