Remembering our troops on Memorial Day

   

Remember one thing: Freedom Isn't Free, someone has to pay the price so that everyone else can enjoy it. The brave men and women of our Armed Forces are paying that price every day in Afghanistan and Iraq so that we can be free to enjoy our backyard picnics and celebrate this holiday here at home. Memorial Day is more than just a federal holiday in the United States observed on the last Monday of May. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates men and women who died while in military service to the United States. It was first enacted to honor Union and Confederate soldiers following the American Civil War, it was extended after World War I to honor Americans who have died in all wars. Memorial Day is the day we say THANKS to our troops for the job well done in fighting the enemies of our country.

But some politicians, many of whom, like Barack Hussein Obama II, have never served in the Armed Forces, fail to appreciate the true value of the sacrifice every American benefits from. Many politicians pay lip service to them for the free publicity that makes them look patriotic but then say something else when drafting our laws. The following is a  message from Move America Forward that I received today via email. It sums up exactly how I feel about supporting the members of our Armed Forces.

OBAMA ADMIN WANTS TO CUT TROOP PAY!

THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR OUR SAFETY AND FREEDOM - OBAMA WANTS TO TAKE THEIR PAY!

In the latest and most outrageous move, the Obama administration wants to cut pay and/or benefits for our troops and their families, even those deployed overseas fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, in order to reign in budgetary spending.

It’s the classic game that the liberals play whenever they are in power – they are always quick to claim they support the troops, but the military is always first on the chopping block. Yesterday Secretary of Defense Robert Gates revealed that the Obama Administration was considering cutting military paychecks when he said in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute.

"The defense secretary said the strategic review could require politicians to look at other uncomfortable choices, including pay levels for service members, new approaches for retirement and pensions, or higher healthcare costs for working-age retirees."
- David Alexander, Reuters 24 MAY 2011

Thanks to the Obama Administration, the gilded age where America supported it’s troops in times of war may be coming to an end, and this commander-in-chief may be asking our troops to fight two wars while at the same time GIVING UP pay, and benefits both for themselves, their spouses and their children! 

Our troops deserve fair and decent compensation, and they deserve for their families to be taken care of after what they sacrifice for us every day!

If you ever wonder about what our troops go through for our sake, just remember where they are serving – it’s almost June now, and these troops are out in the middle of the desert in Baghdad where temperatures reach blazing triple digits on a daily basis.

Our troops deserve fair and decent compensation, and they deserve for their families to be taken care of after what they sacrifice for us every day!

If you ever wonder about what our troops go through for our sake, just remember where they are serving – it’s almost June now, and these troops are out in the middle of the desert in Baghdad where temperatures reach blazing triple digits on a daily basis.

Afghanistan also reaches extreme temperatures, even worse because it has extreme highs in the summer and extreme cold snaps in the winter.

With Memorial Day coming up this Monday, we must show that we support our troops, and in high temperatures like these, our troops are going to need these care packages! Each care package comes with Gatorade to help cool off our troops and keep them hydrated in the hot desert sun!

MEMORIAL DAY IS ALMOST HERE! SEND A CARE PACKAGE WITH SOME GATORADE FOR OUR THIRSTY TROOPS NOW!

Can you imagine what it would feel like to be serving overseas, fighting the war on terror in Iraq or Afghanistan, far away from your family, and then you receive a letter in from your own Government, saying that your paycheck is going to get cut and the prescription medicine for your kid’s ear infection that used to get covered by your military healthcare plan is now going to have to be paid out of pocket and there’s nothing you can do about it because you’re 6,700 miles away from home dodging bullets and trying to shoot back and kill these crazy radical Islamic terrorists!

It’s a slap in the face to our military for the Obama administration to be pushing for this, and it is despicable that Defense Secretary Robert Gates is doing the dirty work for President Obama and breaking the news to the troops who have served under him. What a horrid legacy to leave. He will retire next month on this weak note of failure to find a more suitable place to cut the $500 million that Obama has demanded the Pentagon cut.

DON’T ALLOW OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION TO DO THAT TO OUR TROOPS DON’T LET THEM CUT PAYCHECKS FOR OUR BRAVE FIGHTING MEN AND WOMEN!