Vital importance of Titans' draft pick and PacMan Jones

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Bambi Buster
4 Point
Member # 3562

posted 04-19-2006 01:11 PM
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A long read, but if you go through it, I think you'll get the point. Borrowed from another website.

Ben Stein Published 4/5/2006 242 AM


Dear Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, National Guard, Reservists, in
Iraq, in the Middle East theater, in Afghanistan, in the area near
Afghanistan, in any base anywhere in the world, and your families:

Let me tell you about why you guys own about 90 percent of the cojones in
the whole world right now and should be damned happy with yourselves and
damned proud of who you are. It was a dazzlingly hot day here in Rancho
Mirage today. I did small errands like going to the bank to pay my mortgage,
finding a new bed at a price I can afford, practicing driving with my new 5
wood, paying bills for about two hours.

I spoke for a long time to a woman who is going through a nasty child
custody fight. I got e-mails from a woman who was fired today from her job
for not paying attention. I read about multi-billion-dollar mergers in
Europe, Asia, and the Mideast. I noticed how overweight I am, for the
millionth time.

In other words, I did a lot of nothing. Like every other American who is not
in the armed forces family, I basically just rearranged the deck chairs on
the Titanic in my trivial, self-important, meaningless way.

Above all, I talked to a friend of more than forty-three years who told me
he thought his life had no meaning because all he did was count his money.

And, friends in the armed forces, this is the story of all of America today.
We are doing nothing but treading water while you guys carry on the life or
death struggle against worldwide militant Islamic terrorism. Our lives are
about nothing: paying bills, going to humdrum jobs, waiting until we can go
to sleep and then do it all again. Our most vivid issues are trivia compared
with what you do every day, every minute, every second.

Oprah Winfrey talks a lot about "meaning" in life. For her, "meaning" is
dieting and then having her photo on the cover of her magazine every single
month (surely a new world record for egomania ).This is not "meaning."

Meaning is doing for others. Meaning is risking your life for others.
Meaning is putting your bodies and families' peace of mind on the line to
defeat some of the most evil, sick killers the world has ever known. Meaning
is leaving the comfort of home to fight to make sure that there still will
be a home for your family and for your nation and for free men and women
everywhere.

Look, soldiers and Marines and sailors and airmen and Coast Guardsmen, there
are eight billion people in this world. The whole fate of this world turns
on what you people, 1.4 million, more or less, do every day. The fate of
mankind depends on what about 2/100 of one percent of the people in this
world do every day -- and you are those people. And joining you is every
policeman, fireman, and EMT in the country, also holding back the tide of
chaos.

Do you know how important you are? Do you know how indispensable you are? Do
you know how humbly grateful any of us who has a head on his shoulders is to
you?

Do you know that if you never do another thing in your lives, you will
always still be heroes? That we could live without Hollywood or Wall Street
or the NFL, but we cannot live for a week without you?

We are on our knees to you and we bless and pray for you every moment.

And Oprah Winfrey, if she were a size two, would not have one millionth of
your importance, and all of the Wall Street billionaires will never mean
what the least of you do, and if Barry Bonds hit ninety home runs it would
not mean as much as you going on one patrol or driving one truck to the
Baghdad airport.

You are everything to us, as we go through our little days, and you are in
the prayers of the nation and of every decent man and woman on the planet.

That's who you are and what you mean. I hope you know that.
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TNTony
16 Point
Member # 1851

posted 04-19-2006 01:29 PM
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Dayum excellent post!!! So TRUE!!!

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Ain't nuthing like country living!

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Locksley
12 Point
Member # 1548

posted 04-19-2006 01:53 PM
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You are everything to us, as we go through our little days, and you are in
the prayers of the nation and of every decent man and woman on the planet.
So true So true .

Yet when they come home will their wives and girlfriends be there for them .
When they come home broken will the wives stay with them or will they leave them alone in a V. A. Hospital or nursing home for the rest of there lives.
I just came from a place with the dieing broken men , and so many are there along , to die friendless forgotten by family .
I was young compared to most of them and still stubborn enough to want to get out of the hospital even if it means being alone in my house .
I speak from experience and I see with knowing eyes, the old soldiers need our prayers to not just the young and handsome .

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To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;"The greatest pain a man can suffer is to have knowledge of much, and power over nothing" - Herodotus

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