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Originally Posted by cozumel
They should be treated like heroes when they come home. With flags waving and ordinary folk shaking their hands and welcoming them back to civilian life.
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Originally Posted by OmegaRED
People are apathetic and impatient, they want the troops to return home safely and the war to end but they're not going to give them a heroes welcome since most people don't even know what is really being fought for.
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Originally Posted by drakesteakn
A staff sergeant walked into a Publix to grab some quick things before heading home for dinner. He was standing in a check out line and a lady walked up to him and spit in his face. She then called him and his fellow soldiers baby killers.
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This what I am talking about Omega. Surely it cannot be right that the media have made people react in such an abhorent and reprehensible way. It is so sad that folk can behave in this manner and feel they are somehow 'justified'.