Disarming our veterans


Kudos to reader and fellow blogger Steve Gigl for pointing this one out. Apparently De Pere Wisconsin is planning on disarming their veterans for this year's Memorial Day Parade. Ceremonial rifles that the veterans usually carry in the parade are going to be banned, get this, "for the children". Gigl notes this passage from the article.

"The committee felt that kids have been watching war and killing people for the first half of this year and we didn't need that in a happy event like our parade, which is essentially a kids show," said Jason Paul, chairman of the De Pere Kiwanis Memorial Day Parade.
So their parade is not in honor of our veterans, rather than entertainment for the kiddies. I wonder if our veterans appreciate being likened to circus clowns.

I also wonder if this explains how we get those panty waste SOBs that join the Marine Corps and then are shocked and awed when they are expected to pick up a rifle and shoot it at someone. The idea that our veterans were good enough to carry rifles across Europe, but not through the town of De Pere makes me sick. Is it just me, or does 'De Pere' sound French?



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Do these people have any idea what our vets have sacrificed to provide the safe existence that they enjoy?
Somehow this sounds like something you would expect from a frog sounding town.

Posted by: Michael at May 23, 2003 4:45 PM

Time for that town to have a "regime change!

Posted by: MommaBear at May 24, 2003 3:35 PM

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