What Your Government Thinks About Your Military

"We've got to speak out, speak out against the madness..."
-Long Time Gone-
David Crosby,Stephen Stills and Graham Nash (CS&N)

Quote seen on a bumper sticker:
"I love my country...It's my government I fear!!!"

NOTE:
This was sent to me through E-mail.

I wish that I had the exact time, date and place that this exchange of words took place. If anyone knows the exact facts, please e-mail them to me.

SENATE SESSION:
This exchange between Senators John Glenn and Howard Metzenbaum is worth reading. Not only is it a pretty impressive impromptu speech, but it's also a good example of one man's explanation of why men and women in the Uniformed Services do what they do for a living.

***QUESTION***
Senator Metzenbaum to Senator Glenn: "How can you run for Senate when you've never held a real "job"?"

***ANSWER***
Senator Glenn: "I served 23 years in the United States MarineCorps. I served through two wars. I flew 149 missions. My plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire on 12 different occasions. I was in the space program. It wasn't my checkbook; it was my Life on the line. It was not a 9 to 5 job where I took time off to take the daily cash receipts to the bank.

I asked you to go with me... as I went the other day ... to a Veterans Hospital and look at those men with their mangled bodies in the eye and tell them they didn't hold a job.

You go with me to the space program and go as I have gone to the widows and orphans of Ed White and Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee and you look those kids in the eye and tell them that their dad didn't hold a job.

You go with me on Memorial Day coming up, and you stand in Arlington National Cemetery, where I have more friends than I'd like to remember, and you watch those waving flags, and you stand there, and you think about this nation, you tell me that those people didn't have a job.

I'll tell you, Howard Metzenbaum, you should be on your knees everyday of your life thanking God that there were some men-SOME MEN- who held a job. And they required a dedication to purpose and a love of country and a dedication to duty that was more important than life itself. And their self-sacrifice is what made this country possible.

I HAVE held a job, HOWARD! What about you?"

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