-L. wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>> Well sweetie, those soldiers appreciate care packages from home,
>> even if it isn't from their own home. My father is a veteran of
>> WWII, Korea and VietNam
>
> I'm not imprressed. He went through all that and is still a racist
> asshole? Some people apparently will never learn, will they?
>
No one can account for racist attitudes. I won't say the wars taught him
anything one way or the other but he had no say in where government sent
him. He also hates cats, what can I say?

>> and he sure appreciated letters (they didn't have email back then)
>> and cookies and brownies. So don't go shooting off your mouth
>> lightly. Unlike me picking and choosing cookies and snacks for an
>> airplane, people who join the military and get shipped off don't get
>> to choose where they are sent. And every little care package
>> reminds them we care even if we don't approve of the war they are
>> fighting.
>>
>> Jill
>
> Yeah, "Honey", and bullshit articles in the media like this one make
> people think war is just cookies and rosy welcome-homes. And I'll
> "shoot off my mouth" anytime I ****ing feel like it. Get it?
>
> -L.

Of course you will, just as I do Just saying... articles are just that.
Articles. Opinions. Just like I'm not packing peanut butter because of
your adopted son, I'm also not adverse to shipping some cookies to folks
serving in Iraq.

Jill