08-20-2005, 11:05 PM
onizuka17711 Wrote:Besides, even if I did go willingly, I wouldn't expect people to care/respect me.
I wouldn?t either, especially if I was forced to go, but I sure wouldn't want people to disrespect my death by ignoring that it ever happened and trying to forget it on purpose. But if you bring up the disrespect to soldiers issue, you have to mention Vietnam. Weather you are/were for it or against it, the way the returning soldiers where treated by protesters was just plain bullshit. If they didn't want to fight and dodged their draft, whatever, but don?t treat those who did go like shit cause you didn't like what the government made them do...damn rants changing my point again. So back to what I mean, is that you don?t have hold a big ass celebration in honor of the civil war dead, but don?t try to erase or cover up the significance of the past.