From Rory Fanning, former Army Ranger:
Though I couldn’t quite say why, that Concert for Valor ad felt tired and sad, despite the images of Rihanna singing full-throated into a gold microphone and James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica wailing away on their guitars. I had gotten my own share of “thanks” from civilians when I was still a U.S. Army Ranger. Who hadn’t? It had been the endless theme of the post-9/11 era, how thankful other Americans were that we would do… well, what exactly, for them? And here it was again. I couldn’t help wondering: Would veterans somewhere actually feel the gratitude that Starbucks and HBO hoped to convey?
I went home and cooked dinner for my wife and little girl in a semi-depressed state, thinking about that word “valor” which was to be at the heart of the event and wondering about the Hall of Fame line-up of twenty-first century liberalism that was promoting it or planning to turn out to hail it: Rolling Stone, the magazine of Hunter S. Thompson and all things rock and roll; Bruce Springsteen, the billion-dollar working-class hero; Eminem, the white rapper who has sold more records than Elvis; Metallica, the crew who sued Napster and the metal band of choice for so many longhaired, disenfranchised youth of the 1980s and 1990s. They were all going to say “thank you” — again.
Valorous Soldiers, Stupid Wars, Endless “Thank Yous” by Rory Fanning
Could it be that many who are told that we are fighting for democracy and freedom know that we are really fighting to reach the objective of an NWO tyranny run by a very few sociopaths? Our industry and means for sound money through hard work has been shipped to lands of cheap labor while we lose our own democracy and freedoms. Five Star General/President Eisenhower was right in his warning of the military industrial complex. Putting us on the petrodollar requires a military to enforce that strategy, and NAFTA/GATT and other tactics provide the troops. However, it is hard to motivate a people in debt and with no hope for the high moral and economic standards we once possessed taken away. Wealth now comes to those who deceive and work dishonest ploys, for they replaced the practically inventive, hard working, and risk-taking people from whom entrepreneurship maintains good standards of living.
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