They're terminal, I agree, but they didn't 'fall', they were killed. Under the 'reign' of this president, when we are told (on September 11, 2001) that the only way we, as true Americans can show our 'patriotism' is to go out and shop, I believe that in our everyday lives we've lost sight of the fact that these soldiers didn't "fall", they were sent to their deaths for a stake in the Middle East oil. They were killed, and the use of hideous euphemisms like 'fallen' only serves to denigrate what's been done to them.
Now on NPR this morning, as a true sign of how far from grace that corporation has 'fallen' and sunk into the mud of political conformity, they recommend buying rock, pop and hip-hop records from the Armed Forces label, "For the Fallen". Again, I urge Americans to remember that these soldiers did not 'fall'; they weren't hiking and stumbled off a trail; they weren't bicycling and hit a pebble; they weren't skateboarding and lost it, they were yanked from their families, sent to war, were blown up, shot and died. No amount of calling it fallen, or shopping in the name of patriotism, or ignoring the harm that this president's term in office has done to our so-called quest for peace or our country's world-wide reputation, can change this. The young, old and middle-aged people in this country need to band together and reject being labeled unpatriotic because we either don't agree with our governmental policies or want to spend our entire lives with only shopping for a pasttime. If this means rejecting the new politically correct messages of NPR, then so be it. Your board needs to know that calling it a "bureau" in L.A. and a "bureau" in Washington, D.C. is laughable, and no longer legitimizes your reporting. And the existence of a presence on each coast does NOT make your corporation centrist. You are still, obviously a corporation, and I mean that as a pejorative term.
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