Think about this

Do you remember Sept 15th, 2001? I do. It was just a few days after 9/11. You could not get your hands on an American flag. Wal Mart was sold out. 2 weeks or so after 9/11 every house on my block had a flag on it. I had one on my house before 9/11. The American public was pissed off! Ready to go out and kick the shit out of anybody we could get our hands on. We were proud to be American!!!!

Today on my block my house is the only one with a flag on it. As I drove out of my sub-division I pass at least 75 houses before I get out on the main street. I only saw one other flag. This makes me sad. Most Americans have a short memory.

A short memory, how sad is that? We want results today, right this moment. We have high speed internet, high power micro wave ovens, light rail, live news coverage from the war, etc etc etc.

So now 5 years after 9/11 people have forgot how bad we felt that day.

Why???? Don't give me this......well Bush this Bush that, republicans this and that, or the economy this or that. I think that those are a bunch of easy out, bullshit excuses!!!

Why have most people forgot?

I am the only veteran on my block, the only guy with a flag on his house. Why?

I know that on the night of Sept 11th I wanted somebody to hang for that shit. I said that we should never let this happen again. Hit em before they hit us! Wait for that "smoking gun, and you will be dead"

I'm thankful for our troops doing what they are doing right now.

A lot of people will tell you they are thankful for the troops, but they are really full of shit!!! They say that because that is the thing to do.

I would rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I aint.

I'm an American
I'm a US Marine

Happy Thanksgiving, and when you say your prayer this year at dinner. Don't say thanks for things you dont really care about.

Jim