I'll add my thanks. I tried to join the military right out of college, and in those days, they had enough officers, and weren't interested (talk about feeling like a loser).

We all owe you a lot. I have taken my kids to visit Arlington National Cemetery, then over to the National Archives to see the US Constitution so that they would understand this as well.

HOWEVER, please don't confuse lack of support for the POTUS as a sign of lack of support for the troops. I've been Republican all my life, and even I shake my head at some of the idiocy that comes out of Washington. That will never, however, cloud my view of the debt we owe our troops.

On the above-mentioned trip to Washington, I had exactly with this debate with a fellow in the Archives. While I was showing my kids the Constitution, and talking to them about what it means to us (freedom of religion, speech, etc), this guy comes over and starts railing about liberals this, liberals that, media this, media that, troops dieing in the field, we owe the POTUS loyalty, yack yack yack. I told him that I was having a private moment with my children, and teaching them what I wanted for them to learn at that moment. He could have his say when we were finished. He went on and on. I then told him the beauty of it was that he was free to say what he wanted, and I was free to tell him to shut the f&^$ up.

That's the way it goes in the land of the free.