Comments on: How Should We Thank Veterans on Veterans’ Day? http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2009/11/11/how-should-we-thank-veterans-on-veterans-day/ Ruminations on life, art, politics, and whatever else catches my fancy. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:09:41 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2009/11/11/how-should-we-thank-veterans-on-veterans-day/comment-page-1/#comment-1619 Jeff Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:59:32 +0000 http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/?p=1616#comment-1619 Because they lack an education and can't get a job in tough economic times? People from "piss poor trailer courts in Oklahoma" are cannon fodder for the ruling class. Because they lack an education and can’t get a job in tough economic times? People from “piss poor trailer courts in Oklahoma” are cannon fodder for the ruling class.

]]> By: Jeff http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2009/11/11/how-should-we-thank-veterans-on-veterans-day/comment-page-1/#comment-1618 Jeff Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:57:07 +0000 http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/?p=1616#comment-1618 A very good interview, indeed. But I don't think many people who need to listen to it will do so. A very good interview, indeed. But I don’t think many people who need to listen to it will do so.

]]> By: Mark Thomas http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2009/11/11/how-should-we-thank-veterans-on-veterans-day/comment-page-1/#comment-1617 Mark Thomas Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:35:53 +0000 http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/?p=1616#comment-1617 This was a sobering thought from Scott Horton's interview of Dahr Jamail at http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/11/12/dahr-jamail-13/ "Officially, 58,000 American soldiers died in the Viet Nam war; since the war ended, more than 170,000 Viet Nam veterans have committed suicide." This was a sobering thought from Scott Horton’s interview of Dahr Jamail at http://antiwar.com/radio/2009/11/12/dahr-jamail-13/

“Officially, 58,000 American soldiers died in the Viet Nam war; since the war ended, more than 170,000 Viet Nam veterans have committed suicide.”

]]> By: Debi Kelly Van Cleave http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/index.php/2009/11/11/how-should-we-thank-veterans-on-veterans-day/comment-page-1/#comment-1614 Debi Kelly Van Cleave Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:55:57 +0000 http://turningpoints.iomaire.com/?p=1616#comment-1614 Wow, that's true. How come so many soldiers are from piss poor trailer courts in Oklahoma? Wow, that’s true.

How come so many soldiers are from piss poor trailer courts in Oklahoma?

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