A Memorial Day tribute

It’s not Memorial Day yet, but it’s time to start thinking about it, and this beautiful video, by wordsmith at Flopping Aces, is a good place to start.  Be prepared with a hankie, though, ’cause you’ll need it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=058VyI89QoQ[/youtube]

I just want to add one thing now that you’ve spent a few minutes thinking about the great sacrifice our troops and their families are willing to make on behalf of all Americans (no matter how ungrateful some of those Americans are).  When watching a video such as this one, context matters greatly.  When people who support the military and their efforts — people like Mike — put together a video like this one, there is a reverence underlying it.  Those who make this video, and those who watch this video, do so with the greatest respect for those who are willing to put their patriotism on the line.  These men and women don’t just talk about American exceptionalism; they live it.

This is a far cry from the body counts that the Left loves (body counts that, interestingly enough, ahem, vanished completely upon Obama’s inauguration).  The Left sees the troops as killers or fools, who are willing or unwitting tools of America’s evil imperialism.  Their “homages” to troop deaths are not premised on gratefulness but are, instead, political hit pieces intended to show that the blood of the dead is on our leader’s hands.  Except, apparently, when that leader is Obama.  The media gives every indication of believing that Obama has perfected the trick of leading the troops into battle, but having no responsibility for their deaths.