Some Things Transcend Politics
even as post-season baseball begins in a Presidential election year, and one of them is simple.
Support. The. Troops.
Not the bullshit of putting a yellow ribbon magnet on your car and turning it sideways to look like an early Christian cryptogram, either. I'm talking about the people who really volunteer their time (and often put up their money) in support roles to military personnel.
Two organizations that fit this bill are Soldier's Angels and eMail Our Military. Both organizations work hard to help the men and women in the service and their families. Throwing a few coins to either organization is a much better way to spend money than on a made-in-China magnet for your car.
The ladies I know who work with these organizations are from military families, and consequentially, my liberal politics often run the risk of making their heads explode. We have an informal agreement that we don't get into it on politics. They tolerate my rants here on the blog and on Twitter, and I don't usually respond to their thoughts on their blogs.
Because what they do for military personnel is too important.
Let's face it, the American military looks a lot more like Barack Obama than John McCain. It's the nature of military men and women to be more conservative, though, and I'm OK with that. These folks are doing something I've never done in my almost half-century on this planet, sacrifice years of their lives for this country. I respect their sense of duty and want to do what I can to make the incredibly difficult experience of foreign deployments and combat better in some small ways. eMOM is doing that, getting e-mail and e-cards to the folks in Iraq an Afghanistan.
I also know that, no matter which political party is in power, the DoD is an incredibly arcane and complex bureaucracy, and sometimes military personnel and their families fall through the cracks. Soldier's Angels does what they can to help those families when they need it.
It doesn't matter that the folks running the show don't agree with my choice for President.
Don't get me wrong, I'll be the first to bust any of my conservative friends if they perpetuate incorrect information about Barack Obama or other Democrats. I'll also be on them wicked fast if they perpetuate the lies of Sean Hannity or the rest of the filth at Fox News Channel. But I know it's not personal, and they know I don't get in their face on matters of opinion, but to correct matters of fact.
Now, go click those links and help these gals out. Because some things are just that important.
Support. The. Troops.
Not the bullshit of putting a yellow ribbon magnet on your car and turning it sideways to look like an early Christian cryptogram, either. I'm talking about the people who really volunteer their time (and often put up their money) in support roles to military personnel.
Two organizations that fit this bill are Soldier's Angels and eMail Our Military. Both organizations work hard to help the men and women in the service and their families. Throwing a few coins to either organization is a much better way to spend money than on a made-in-China magnet for your car.
The ladies I know who work with these organizations are from military families, and consequentially, my liberal politics often run the risk of making their heads explode. We have an informal agreement that we don't get into it on politics. They tolerate my rants here on the blog and on Twitter, and I don't usually respond to their thoughts on their blogs.
Because what they do for military personnel is too important.
Let's face it, the American military looks a lot more like Barack Obama than John McCain. It's the nature of military men and women to be more conservative, though, and I'm OK with that. These folks are doing something I've never done in my almost half-century on this planet, sacrifice years of their lives for this country. I respect their sense of duty and want to do what I can to make the incredibly difficult experience of foreign deployments and combat better in some small ways. eMOM is doing that, getting e-mail and e-cards to the folks in Iraq an Afghanistan.
I also know that, no matter which political party is in power, the DoD is an incredibly arcane and complex bureaucracy, and sometimes military personnel and their families fall through the cracks. Soldier's Angels does what they can to help those families when they need it.
It doesn't matter that the folks running the show don't agree with my choice for President.
Don't get me wrong, I'll be the first to bust any of my conservative friends if they perpetuate incorrect information about Barack Obama or other Democrats. I'll also be on them wicked fast if they perpetuate the lies of Sean Hannity or the rest of the filth at Fox News Channel. But I know it's not personal, and they know I don't get in their face on matters of opinion, but to correct matters of fact.
Now, go click those links and help these gals out. Because some things are just that important.
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