Please say thanks

[Conf1rm3d_K1ll]

Originally posted here by Negative
Hmmm... and you're thanking them for what? Anyone care to enlighten me?

LOL....I'd like to know, too? What are you thanking them for? The lack of deaths by "friendly fire"??? That only one (1) wedding party was killed? That Osama Bin Laden is still no where near being captured? Tha Bush is pushing the world towards war with his antagonistic attitude towards his Daddy's nemisis, Saddam?

[Palemoon]

Get real Conf1rm3d_k1ll, you think the people that server even in your own Military have a choice in what they do. What of Ireland? Your people there brothers and sisters for maybe not you but others, death happens on both sides to people that have no choice in matters. Either by choice or a calling. This help? Just because these people do makes them less? If less then what less, I've faced death have you, if not Enlighten me then I'm old I learn much from youth is your point?

[the_JinX]

Thank the US army for what:

Freeing Europe, and gaining exclusive bargaining rights (don't know the official term) wich means in reality that the USofA can buy stuff produced in Europe for less then the Europeans pay for it

Trying time and time again to rule the world (Gulf War II) or atleast the middle east.

For killing innocent people all over the world (do fill in any war that comes to mind)...

Thanks US army Thanks for all that..

[qwerty_smith]

i'm not sure if we should be saying "thank-you" american sucker fighting a war that we shouldnt be in or "i'm sorry" you have to do this.

i'm sorry you're even there. i'm sorry our government cares more for the oil to fuel our SUVs than human life. i'm sorry they put your life in danger and those of everyone on our side by creating a reason for them to retaliate even more. i'm sorry our copuntry's leaders are arrogant and foolhearty. i'm sorry that you are there to defend our freedoms and even more are being taken away daily back at home. i'm sorry that you are forced away from home and are "defending our freedom" from a far off place and our borders are completely open. i'm sorry you didn't realize before signing up that our government helped orchestrate this whole thing and is leading the poeple like sheep to the slaughter.

[intruder]

hey i am not from america but many of my people are there in US and i have said thanks for them .. well well.. from the above discussions.. may be negetive is right.. or anybody else is right .. but everybody konws that 9/11 was bad.. and i hope US has answered.. that question.. partially .. ( coz still bin is alive. ) but lets hope for the best.. and thanks to the soilders... of any country who are protecting .. their respective country...

[4MidgetHitmen]

Freeing Europe, and gaining exclusive bargaining rights (don't know the official term) wich means in reality that the USofA can buy stuff produced in Europe for less then the Europeans pay for it

So I guess that it would have been better if the Thousand Year Reich had lasted a thousand years huh? Long beofer we actually entered WWII the US was supporting the UK with money, food, and weapons under the Lend/Lease act...

Trying time and time again to rule the world (Gulf War II) or atleast the middle east.

I have not once heard anyone in control of the US Governmet say anything about ruling the world... That particular phenomina(sp) seems to be an "old world" thing.. The Romans, Goths, Vandles, Huns, French, British, Germans, Jananese, etc... I don't remember there ever being an American Empire or the US ever having an Emperor, King, Prince, etc...

For killing innocent people all over the world (do fill in any war that comes to mind)...

And the IRA has never killed an innocent? Al Quadea didn't kill 3000+ innocent people? ... I guess you forgot all the Crusades, the inqusitioon, etc... the US didn't have anything to do with those... Ever seen an entire village full of children with their arms cut off by a "social justice movement" because they got a vacination against polio? Ever had some "freedom fighter (read that terrorist) fire a round at you because you stood up to them and didn't knuckle under to their form of dictatorship? Yes innocent people do die in a war and 99% of the time it is an accident... Unfortunately accidents do happen in war...

LOL....I'd like to know, too? What are you thanking them for? The lack of deaths by "friendly fire"??? That only one (1) wedding party was killed? That Osama Bin Laden is still no where near being captured? Tha Bush is pushing the world towards war with his antagonistic attitude towards his Daddy's nemisis, Saddam?

The reason I asking people to say thank you is very simple... It is a way to show the men and women of teh US armered forces that we appreciate their sacrifice for us... To use a good movie line... "Theose men and women stand a watch keeping the dark things of the world from getting to you. When you need them you cry please help us and when you don't you want them to hide away and not show themselves. But deep down inside, in the place you can't talk about in your polite society, you need them, you want them to be on that watch because without them you wouldn't have your polite society." Say thank you because they stand a watch each and every night and by so doing they are telling you, "sleep safe and know deep in your heart that nothing will harm you tonight, not on my watch!"

You don't like the war great... I sure as hell don't like it... I have a wife who is just back from supporting Operation Endruring Freedom... Do you? But please don't disrespect those who have chosen to defend the US and do something that you are either incapable of doing because of age, disability, etc... Or to scared to do... What ever your reason this is not about the US as a whole it is about the individual soldier, sailor, marine, or airman who has to spend this holiday season away from his or her family because a terrorist group decided to start a war...

[NeoAcid5000]

No one is perfect and i doubt anyone's country here is either. I definitely show my support and thanks to the people that allow me to keep my freedom, the same freedom that alot of people take for granted.

[ebo]

Hey Negative, I will have you know. Before you start posting that kind of stuff you think about who may be on AO. I am a 15 year old boy that is today left with no father, because he was willing to fight and defend this country during Vietnam. He fought in it and developed so many diseases that he faught off long enough to bring his family to the United States of America. So when people send out this kind of Thank yous, one of them may be for my father, so when say that we do not know who we are sending it to, well now you have an idea. My father was a veteran and he would had stood up anyday to fight for this country in good or bad health. If my father, who is now resting in peace was proud enough of this country to fight for them anytime no matter the conditions of his health, well i am also proud of this country and i cherish it for, because my father taught me how to love and cherish the United States of America. You can go ahead and neg me if you are dumb enough not see the kind of pain many people that lost their loved ones in battlefields or after affects from battles. You can neg me if you want, but i believe this is what my father would had done and said if he was a live today to see this post by you.

I am proud to be in America and i love the people that are proud to be American.

[imported_all_smiles]

Hey this is a great thread 4MidgetHitmen and I think that everyone in America should support our armed forces and the things that they do for us everyday. They are risking our lives so that those of us in America can live a safer happier life.

Since I first started coming to this site I have noticed alot of negativety towards the US. We are not perfect and never will be but as 4MidgetHitmen pointed out throughout history their have been things which have taken place that are alot worse than anything that the US has been responsible for. But we do make mistakes and something for anybody who has anti US sentiment to keep in mind when they do make a post is that Americans who do read your post have a say in how our government is run. It is only a small voice but if you pursuade enough people we can make a difference. So do not just make a post saying that your are against the US and that we are terrible, make a logical non inflammitory argument because nearly everyone in America is out for doing good in the rest of the world, not simply to make it our own personal amusement park. Just my 2 cents.

[blakdeth77]

over 1,673,000 thank yous already... nice