To Mark Day, Words of Fallen Marine Read Aloud

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From one former armed services member to all former and current members:  Have an enjoyable and safe Memorial Day!

How I hope that this young man's words are prophetic and that is what we leave when we are finally finished in Afghanistan.

Pay some respecect. Demand that the Repuclian congress that refuses to cut any of their well funded perks and expenses, have done so  by keep cutting military benefits and VA benefits but keeps raising the funding of things the Pentagon and military branches say they don't need or want which feeds the military industrial complex. Start demanding that they cut their expenditures and restore benefits to our military and their families for a change. That before they fund expensive projects and weapons the military forces say they don't need and don't want,  that they first see the men and women who serve us are taken care of first. That they see that the men and women of our military are taken care of before they that serve in congress are. Our congress has become to self centered and greedy to meet the needs of the country before their own. The Republican congress and Romney also want to increase the deployment of troops to Afghanistan and start a new, unnecessary war in Iran. This in a time when they've cut military benefits to a new low. This at a time when they tell American seniors the country is too broke to pay them the benefits they have paid into to recieve all their lives. There is something very wrong in their logic. Twelve years ago May 27, 2000, my son left for boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina. The only way I got through that day was the fact it was Memorial Day. I just kept telling myself through the tears there was no better way for my son to honor those that had given their lives in defense of our freedom than to volunteer to serve and be leaving on for training on Memorial Day. My son like others who have returned from deployments, suffers survivors guilt from loosing friends to enemy attacks. And now as a Republican he sees total insanity of Tea Party members and fellow Republicans refusing to do what is necessary to help keep this country  growing and recovering. He sees them not sacrfricing as they asked him and his fellow Marines to do time and time again. And now they want to send them once again into another war. Please honor our fallen and start asking the questions as to why? Start asking how they are going to pay? We know it will cost a lot of American lives unnecessarily. In memory of Cpl. Payne, Afghanistan 2004. And I'm sorry son, I can't remember all the names from your unit in the 1/3 that were lost in Iraq 2005. Cpl. Goldman Sgt. Gunney And many, many more.