Veterans did not die for today’s America. Today’s America is dominated by a population either ignorant of freedom’s value, or openly hostile to it. People who love freedom do not vote for medieval, beheading barbarians or totalitarian, starvation-inducing Marxists. They don’t applaud the deaths of nonviolent people whose ideas they don’t share. Lovers of freedom honor the right to property — their own, or another’s — and do not scream for freebies or “affordability” paid for by others.
Let’s be real, just once … The veterans of yesteryear fought for an ideal no longer embodied in this nation as we know it. Freedom once was, and might be again. But not now. Now is disgusting almost beyond belief — and now is not what they fought and died for.
Don’t trivialize the achievement of veterans by pretending that the America of today is anything like our founders envisioned or our Constitution requires. Freedom only benefits decent, good, self-governing people.