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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExtravagant "Support Our Troops" Display Doesn't Help Soldiers, But Does a Lot for Those Who Profit
http://www.alternet.org/culture/mindless-and-extravagant-support-our-troops-display-doesnt-help-soldiers-does-lot-those-whoMindless and Extravagant "Support Our Troops" Display Doesn't Help Soldiers, But Does a Lot for Those Who Profit From War
My 16-month-old son was having a bad day. When he doesnt sleep in the car, he usually points and babbles his approval of all the wonderful things babies notice that completely escape adult attention. On this afternoon, though, he was teething and hungry, a lethal scenario for an energetic youngster strapped into a high-tech seating apparatus (approved and installed, of course, by the state).
When it became clear he couldnt, or wouldnt, sleep it out, my wife and I stopped at a nondescript exit, the kind one finds every six miles in the South, with two gas stations and three abandoned buildings (if youre lucky, you also get a Hampton Inn and Cracker Barrel). While she tended to the baby, I entered a convenience store one of those squat, glass and plastic rectangles that looks like a Sears & Roebuck erector set praying it would have something other than beer, cigarettes and beef jerky.
I settled on two Kraft mozzarella sticks, resisting the urge to purchase for myself a shiny red can of Four Loko.
Thatll be $1.82, the lady at the counter cheerily informed me. After I handed her two ones, she asked, Would you like to donate your change to the troops? I noticed a jar with support our troops taped to it in handwritten ink.
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Extravagant "Support Our Troops" Display Doesn't Help Soldiers, But Does a Lot for Those Who Profit (Original Post)
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Aug 2013
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Mr_Teg
(47 posts)1. Third time I've seen this article posted...
Must be very popular...
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)2. I usally play Ikes farewell speech, but this guy knew before Ike .