That which I wish to relay to you today concerns, not surprisingly, the military. Specifically, I would like to bring up my annoyance at the constant reminders that we need to “thank those who have fought and are fighting for our freedoms.” (The other annoying and no less dumb line about the military being, “If it wasn’t for the troops we would all be speaking German/Japanese right now.”) I won’t even get into the fact that it is difficult to point to a specific instance in the last 200 years when any military action by the United States government involved defending us from an enemy that actually threatened our traditional freedoms.
The issue I would like to bring forward is the fact that every holiday is now being turned into a thank-the-troops marathon. Memorial Day, Veterans Day, I suppose I can handle those. But Christmas? Independence Day? Please. I’m still waiting for Halloween to be taken over with the constant barrage of “remember those have allowed us to celebrate this pagan holiday of free-loading candy grubbers and vandalism.”
I suppose I am a traitor now. Someone better lock me up.
