When You Were A Kid In 1970, "Fortunate Son" Was Just A Catchy Tune. Now I'm 45 & Pretty Angry.

The hippies and liberals pissed me off, because they sounded like they were simply whining and wanted something for nothing. Ironically, they're the ones running the show now and extending our military in an unprecedented fashion. And they're absolutely whining and wanting something for nothing AT THE SAME TIME.

Barack, perhaps you can take the difference between your tax rate and ours and foot the bill yourself for the next vacation you take, you pompous, presumptuous, condescending waste of Oxygen.

viewtnam vet here

yes, those were the days, ol creedance, and hand grenades

we would be like singing in the jungle and playing toss the gook head (jenkins always won, he should have bee n in sports)

double pin....

aghahahaha



yeah



ghere

Will anyone "get it" this time around...anytime soon?

Kiss my ass you stupid fuck.. I was a hippy and still am.. I'll stand for the preservation of our freedoms a hell of alot faster then your biased asshole.. Kiss my ass you fucking piece of shit.

You are not standing for the preservation of freedom.

You are, at this moment, supporting the slavery of yourself.

Oh and by the way cockbite I spent my time defending you fucked up attitude too.

Freedom's just another word for "nothin' left to lose".
Nothin' ... that's all that Bobbie left me ...

I'm the first person to assert that no matter how stupid and quite frankly, infuriating burning our flag is, the idiot doing it is protected by the 1st Amendment. And yet, as an American that cherishes that flag, and moreover our Constitution, this government is declaring war on people like me. When will we EVER hold these people accountable to the same set of laws that we're expected to die for, when necessary, and at their will and pleasure?

And same to you too you Brizilian Fuck.. I was in your fucked up area that you turned to shit during the Contra Sandinista BS.. You fucking guys don't have a clue whereof you speak.

Those were the Days!

my spoon is tarnished, pitted and bent

Hahah

What do you wish as an answer?

A verification of what you wrongly assumed?

Should I try to speak words equal to yours, fighting negativity with negativity?

Are these guys really the ones fighting for this world and for 'freedom'?


The 'freedom' you seem to be fighting for only exists because of your prison.


You don't know what real freedom is, or should I say, you are not yet free to know that you know it.


Forget everything, this reply of mine only says "Meh, whatever."

Last Edited by 1908247 on 04/12/2013 08:39 PM

For starters, I was looking at the world through the eyes of a child in 1970. The only thing I understood about the hippie movement was that it was drastically different than the culture represented in a small, New England town. As an adult, and a veteran myself, I understand much of what the movement was trying to communicate. The MAJORITY of those hippies are now the closed-minded bigots you loathed back then. THEY are dirtier than the leadership they reviled, because they are hypocrites; Completely one-sided, and unwilling to acknowledge a paradigm in our leadership - that it's all about a corporate amalgamation that owes its allegiance to no flag. I'm the "stupid fuck?" Please reconsider. Incidentally, do you expect something in return for nothing? Because there are a HELL of a lot of people now that do.

Ok feller.. Speak to my face... You haven't got a clue about negativity or the evils of this world that you promote and have promoted to have the luxury of spouting off your disgust for the very opportunity to preach your pacifism.. At least the hippies of this world stood for justice which has long gone thanks to the likes of you.

OK OP I apologize.. Your right about alot of sellout hippies but they are the same friends you have today that are Hippocrates Some people don't understand that the hippie movement was all about your individual freedom and God given Rights.

My wife's grandfather just passed away. He and I were very close. He was stationed in Europe with a P-51 squadron during WWII. We shared some great dialogue, but I did much more listening than talking. The vets of his generation weren't saying much, because they were somehow shamed into suffering in silence. Beyond our conversations, he didn't think anyone else understood, or was willing to. So he unloaded on me. Well DAMMIT, I OWE him, and every other vet that's been sent away to the Almighty, and every American with eyes and ears, to call these bastards out once and for all. And you liberals, you OWN this administration, so you've got nowhere to run and nowhere to hide this time.

Apology accepted unconditionally. I have NO political leanings any longer. It's impossible to support the left or the right and care for the preservation of the Constitution at the same time.

And to your point, there weren't too many people at the time that even understood the rubicon we were being herded toward that could remotely communicate that to a kid.

Thank you for accepting my apology.. Right now this world stinks because we under the threat of loss of freedoms like no other time in history.. It just gets under my skin when it so easy to throw labels on everything except the evil bastards trying to put us all under their thumb.

Hell Yea! By all that is holy and sacred, I am with you.

The media is busy legitimizing North Korea, our leadership is entertaining nuclear war, a new narrative is being spoon fed to us, the well from which the system will draw, and my concerns are met with a single star. Priceless.

I'm grateful for the engaging replies otherwise.

Was that directed to me?

If so, honestly, you make no sense.

There are very few things in this world I can't endure (or frankly haven't). Being lied to is #1 on that list. How do I communicate my love for this nation to my kids and avoid my obvious disdain for what its system of government has evolved into? Or am I failing to give them the benefit of the doubt, that they wouldn't or couldn't understand that on their own? Every day, I'm finding they know more than I give them credit for, so perhaps I've answered my own question. Kids don't handle mixed-messages very well, and any of you with kids will quickly realize Dad's perspective here and what they're getting in school are two completely different things.

Now if I might be more constructive then destructive .. It seems that Korea is going to be the scapegoat for some very much broader issues.. In the mean time our propped up economy
Is producing more money then we have the capability of producing. Since we have sent all of our ability to produce to countries that money people could take advantage of.. We are short timers for economic failure.. Also we have the back door of allowing and funding illegals to subvert our way of life even further.. Americans need to wake up.. Promote our ability to produce the best products in the world and yes plan to pay more for our way of life ..