[BasketBallonlyfan]

Are you saying that Private Menendez from Houston, Texas, child
of poverty, GED, is going to rise to Patton level? What you
did was to create a straw man, then destroy it. In fact, you
sound a bit like Colonel Nathan Jessup in that Tom Cruise movie.
PLEASE stop saying that the troops are fighting for me. They are fighting at the command of the President and their ranking officers. I did not send them to Iraq. You do not have to
become a member of the system in order to quarrel with the system...unless, of course, apparently, one lives in your
world...

Sounds to me like you are living in your own world. Lets go back to what you said earlier. "I
spent an hour or so yesterday watching footage of 9/11 on
You Tube and a few History Channel programs." Good to see you spent a whole hour on u-tube and watched a few history channel programs. Then you keep making your whole argument based on what is said in movies and on tv. I lived the life, I knew what the military was like when I quit college to join.

I did not say they was fighting for you. Every time our troops goes anywhere for any reason. It doesnt matter if it is a humanitarian mission or even going to war, the troops represent the Constitution of of the United States, not the President or any officer, The Constitution represents you. So yes, they are there for your freedom.

As far as Private Mendendez from Houston Texas, I have no idea what kind of person he is. How about Sergent Major Fenton Reese from Brooklyn New Yourk. A fit black man who is the Sergent Major of the Marine Corps. To say if you are a minority in the military you wont get far is a misconception.