Last week I attended the memorial service for Navy Cmdr. Duane Wolfe, 54 killed in Iraq on Memorial Day by an IED. He volunteered to go, and is survived by a wife and three children.

You don’t have to agree, SSG David and I don’t agree on a variety of subjects, but be civil.

(great suck-up, no? )

Debate is good I enjoy a good argument. This election season is the best time to air ideas out.

But personal attacks are not a part of what this blog is about.

You don’t have to agree, but be civil to each other. Otherwise you’ll both have to take it somewhere else.

No one wants to see you both hanging around a poorly writ blog on the bad side of the Internet with boring photos and pedestrian design.

Walter Reeds BUILDING is in disrepair, NOT the medical care, which is, and always has been, world class….but that’s a reality you don’t want to know about.

The recent GI Bill debate, centered on the billions in pork spending your liberal friends wanted to tack on. THAT is why Bush refused to sign the corrupted bill. The meat of it was fine, it was all the fat that Bush wanted trimmed off…..but that’s another reality that you don’t want to know about.

Bush has presented all his records, and they have been pored over with a fine toothed comb. But, no discrepancies found, except for the FAKE personal report from a man that wasn’t rated to do a report on him. Experts (and not so expert) easily took the print (font)of the report to task, proving beyond a doubt that the form could NOT have been written on a manual typewriter. Regardless of political affiliation, that’s known as a LIE, and Dan Rather STILL falls for it.

Where is Kerry’s medical reports from Vietnam? Did you know a Purple Heart can only be awarded after the wounded has been seen and recorded by qualified medical personnel? Kerry claims at least 3 PH’s, yet NOBODY really knows why or how, except for John Kerry. Did you know that he did not throw his own medals over the White House fence? He had claimed vociferously for over 20 years that they were his. But the truth came out when campaign photo’s of him in his office, showed his Vietnam medals behind him on the wall. That is also known as a lie……but, there’s another reality check for ya Mitch.

Your “honorable and brave” comments were intended to be facitious and rude, both of which failed. You only showed all readers here, your terrific ignorance. I can only conclude that you have not served in America’s armed forces, but that reality doesn’t surprise me either.

I have fulfilled a total of 28 months n combat in Iraq, on two wholly volunteer tours (that means I asked combat units if they had a slot for me). I have no problem going again, and again, and again, until islamic terrorists, or any one else that wants to kill you, have been shown a better way to live….or not.

What have you done lately Mitch, to further freedoms and liberty of peoples around the world?

Do you really think he cares about the military? Remember Walter Reed and the GI Bill?

I’m sure there’s a way to blame Bill Clinton for that — just like it’s Clinton’s fault that Bush ignored bin Laden — but the fact is, this administration is no friend of the military. (Remember the body armor they refused to buy?)

And it’s well documented that Bush used his connections to get into the Guard and then refused to fulfill that safe obligation. But, hey — John Kerry’s the coward, right?

Of course, you’ll say all these facts about Bush’s military service is just media bias. But that’s what conservatives do: Because they know the facts make them look bad, they attack the messengers. That way it doesn’t matter if the truth is revealed — because no one will believe it.

There’s no liberal bias in the media. There’s truth. And the truth hurts.

And my “honorable and brave” comment, which you have twisted out of context (go figure) was applied to Bush and Cheney, not the military.

It’d be great if conservatives researched things for themselves (from real sources, not GOP bloggers like that Gannon guy the White House planted) rather than parrot what Rush drilled into their heads.

Bush deferred his flight physical, which effectively removed him from flight status (no current physical, no stick time). That’s all. He remained an Air National Guardsman until his ETS (end time in service).

Please explain how a blatant lie, can be the truth? The so-called “proof” letter cited by Mr. Rather, was a complete fabrication…also known as a “lie”. Impossible to be accurate, as the purported situation never occurred.

As for the first part of your comment; We military people are ALL, 100% VOLUNTEERS. Meaning, that nobody sends us anywhere we did not ask to go. Just so you know… it is indeed an honorable, and brave thing to do.

Your childish blathering only shows your ignorance of the military, Congressional orders, and President Bush.

David, I did not take your posting as a slight to the Guard, I only wanted to better clarify the oft stated quote of “Bush, Cheney, etc” avoided Vietnam, by some nefarious means. Please remember, that millions of American Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Airmen of the era also never went to Vietnam, serving instead in Germany, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Africa, South America, and dozens of other posts and battle zones around the world.