who was a 19-year-old wife of a Marine in 1987, during the sixth year of the military cult of the Reagan administration told me yesterday that when she heard the Marines at her husband's base weren't served Thanksgiving dinner because the base more or less shut down for the holiday, inexperienced and with a baby less than a year old ended up making traditional American Thanksgiving for a bunch of her husband's colleagues not knowing how to do it. The story had its funny aspects because she had never learned how to do it and she, determined to give as many of them the kind of thing she imagined they'd eat - from all over the country with all kinds of backgrounds - ended up making all kinds of stuff ALONE. And that she ended up doing the same at Christmas though she told them they'd have to do more pot-luck for that one.
But the news for me is that at the height of the cult of the military as an idol, the government, the Pentagon, the Department of Defense thought so little of its cannon fodder that they didn't even think it was the bottom floor of respect for them that they would provide them with a meal on America's major food holiday and leave them to fend for themselves at a fast food joint which was their alternative in their location in the major homeland of the cult of the military - a location in the American South I will not reveal - and at the height of the Hollywood - DC - NYC - Atlanta created cult of the military.
America's conservative establishment has always been full of shit about respecting the military. Which is why a fat-assed, rich-boy, war supporting draft dodger can call for the murder of six veterans who tell their fellow military and intelligence colleagues that they have a moral and legal obligation to refuse to carry out his illegal orders and the news media, especially the conservative news media, is on the side of the fat-assed, rich-boy, war supporting, draft dodger.
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