i have several friends that are veterans and they have to work on monday!!
yet teachers (and we know how useless they are) and students get the day off.i have an idea!!
why don't they just let the veterans off, would that be asking too much??
Do you agree that we have an illiteracy problem?? Who do you think needs to be held responsible??I too have had alot of teachers and the good ones where far and few between.
Sooo..its okay for you to generalize that most teachers are great but its wrong for me to say I think most are not? The proof is in the pudding...do some research and get back to me on who should be held accountable. I resent your generalization!! Get real!!
Edited by - LuckyLucy on 10 November 2002 18:18:14
troucel...you said; You know I met an Afghani immigrant awhile back and he told me he was proud to be Afghani. With all his country's faults, he still loved his country. That to me, was one of the coolest things I had ever heard. I admired him for that.
With all due respect...that is the dumbest reason ...Just because you where born in a certain Country you should be loyal or proud of your country???
Thats like saying well i was born a JW and even though they are hypocrates ,child molesters,and greedy bastards...by george..im going to stay loyal to them because i was born in that religion..people never cease to amaze me
Edited by - LuckyLucy on 10 November 2002 18:8:52
i have several friends that are veterans and they have to work on monday!!
yet teachers (and we know how useless they are) and students get the day off.i have an idea!!
why don't they just let the veterans off, would that be asking too much??
Willdaassman,apparently you didn't read my post or it was too hard for you to understand.I was defending the Vets!! BTW... by letting people from other Countries come here to set up shop is the biggest mistake we ever made.We not only take care of them we educate them for free so that they can do thier sick little terroist acts (Does 911 ring a bell?)How smart is that??
I don't have to expain nothing Searchin!!!I will because i guess the obvious that is staring you in the face is not penetrateing your head. WE live in a illiterate society because the teachers are not educated or are just lazy or they just don't care because they don't get paid crap.(Maybe if we would stop paying stupid professional ball player outragous salaries and increase the teachers salarys maybe things would change.You get what you pay for.
I believe that people need to be feed this propaganda so that they can keep thier false sense of sercuity.No one wants to believe that "the american dream" is just a figment of their imagination.
My thread titled;Veterans day is a bunch of crap- proves it.
i have several friends that are veterans and they have to work on monday!!
yet teachers (and we know how useless they are) and students get the day off.i have an idea!!
why don't they just let the veterans off, would that be asking too much??
LMAO!! How can you yell at someone on a message board??
Shakita....If you were a sensitive person..you would be upset about the way the vets are treated by the government.
i have several friends that are veterans and they have to work on monday!!
yet teachers (and we know how useless they are) and students get the day off.i have an idea!!
why don't they just let the veterans off, would that be asking too much??
Shaika..no ..in fact i am having a great day...thank you very much..just a low tolerance for stupidity
Does it need to hit you at home for it to sink in? How can you trust the government that lies? I thought this day and age people would see through the propaganda.
The clamor over welfare benefits for sick and elderly immigrants has overshadowed a wartime promise made by the U.S. government to thousands of able-bodied foreign soldiers. Lay your lives on the line for American ideals, the men were told, and we will make you Americans. The brown-skinned foreigners who took up arms for freedom and democracy are now aging, disabled, or dead. The promise has yet to be fulfilled.
This is not a story meant to endorse the something-for-nothing entitlement state that too many "immigrant advocates" advocate. It is just the opposite - a timely history lesson about the lost values of honor, sacrifice and patriotism.
More than a half-century ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tapped soldiers from the Philippines to fight against Japan in World War II. The Japanese had attacked the Pacific island nation, then a U.S. territory, on Dec. 8, 1941. In return for their courage and loyalty, Roosevelt pledged that Filipinos who fought for the U.S. would be granted American citizenship and veterans benefits.
Over 100,000 Filipino soldiers served the U.S. faithfully throughout the Japanese occupation. On April 9, 1942, some 76,000 Filipino and American soldiers surrendered to Japanese troops at Bataan, located on the Philippine island of Luzon. For the next 10 days, in blazing heat, they were forced to march 65 miles through the jungles and on to concentration camps at Cabanatuan.
Last weekend marked the 55th anniversary of the end of that gruesome journey - the Bataan Death March.
Along the way, Japanese soldiers tortured their bound white and brown captives mercilessly. The atrocities ranged from cigarette burns to water and food deprivation, bayonet stabbings, fatal beatings, and decapitation with samurai swords.
A lucky few escaped; many survived, including my grandfather, Nazario E. Perez, a colonel in the 3rd Battalion of the Philippine Commonwealth Army. Almost 54,000 of the marchers made it to camp, but more than half (25,000 Filipinos and 2,500 Americans) succumbed behind barbed wire to disease and starvation. When the war finally ended, more than 1.1 million Filipinos - soldiers and civilians alike - had sacrificed their lives for the U.S.
FDR's pledge died with them. Although a small number of Special Philippine Scouts were naturalized immediately after the war, Congress passed a rider to the 1946 Rescission Act stripping all regular Filipino army soldiers of their rights and privileges as U.S. veterans. President Harry Truman signed the bill into law. It declared that the Filipinos' military service had not been "active" as defined for the purpose of receiving full veterans benefits. Yet, all other European allied soldiers who served similarly under the U.S. flag were granted full veteran status and attendant benefits.
How tens of thousands of Filipinos who shot, shelled, spied, marched, starved, prayed and died for America came to be viewed as "passive" participants in the war, my grandfather could never comprehend.
When I was 8, he traveled to the country he fought for to see the Statue of Liberty. He wept. In my eyes, Lolo 'Zario was an American patriot. In the eyes of the U.S. government, he was indistinguishable from any other camera-toting foreign traveler. He visited a few times over the years and passed away in 1989. Just one year later, Congress partially righted its historic wrong by granting overdue U.S. citizenship rights to Filipino World War II vets.
Last fall, President Clinton signed a proclamation designating Oct. 20 a day to honor Filipino veterans for their valor. But a pat on the head from a man who protested the U.S. on foreign soil during another war is hardly fulfillment of the promise FDR made 55 years ago. Bipartisan efforts to provide equity in military benefits for the aging Filipino vets have failed year after year, even as states (including Washington) and the feds move to preserve welfare benefits for other immigrants.
Retired U.S. Army Major Urbano Quijance, president of the Bataan Corregidor Survivors Association in Seattle, member of the Philippine Scouts, and a Bataan Death March survivor, says he understands that Congress needs to "economize." But a promise is a promise. Keeping it will be expensive, he acknowledges. But those who defended democratic ideals in the Philippines paid a high price, too - in lost limbs, innocence, and life.
"This is not a giveaway," says Maj. Quijance. "This is something earned."
i have several friends that are veterans and they have to work on monday!!
yet teachers (and we know how useless they are) and students get the day off.i have an idea!!
why don't they just let the veterans off, would that be asking too much??
shakita..apparently my post went over your head (maybe someone in your family can explain it to you)
I was defending the Vets.I think the vets are not given enough credit. Our government just uses them and then throws them out when their done...go talk to some homeless people...you might be surpised how many of them are vets not to mention the mental problems they have now for serving in the war.Where is the government now when they need assistant??
WAKE UP AND TAKE YOUR REALITY PILL!!
i have several friends that are veterans and they have to work on monday!!
yet teachers (and we know how useless they are) and students get the day off.i have an idea!!
why don't they just let the veterans off, would that be asking too much??
Perfect point Shera
I'ts situations like yours that really Piss me off!!!
i have several friends that are veterans and they have to work on monday!!
yet teachers (and we know how useless they are) and students get the day off.i have an idea!!
why don't they just let the veterans off, would that be asking too much??
Ahhh...bleeding heart liberal!! Why don't you care about the women in America or the dirt poor in America? We are so busy trying to help other countries...Would'nt you say we should clean up our own backyard first??
i have several friends that are veterans and they have to work on monday!!
yet teachers (and we know how useless they are) and students get the day off.i have an idea!!
why don't they just let the veterans off, would that be asking too much??
Hillbilly...where did I say "I wanted the day off" I never did!! How can people twist your words when they are right in front of your face in black in white is beyond me!!
