First: Aren't ALL soldiers heroes? I mean, really, this how we justify our wars and aggression, by making heroes of everyone in uniform; that's how we get so many of them into uniforms.

Second: Was this a "well regulated militia?"

I hope the families suing the Army for the deaths of their children win their case.

and as an ex military spouse I think that the majority are good people. However it is frightening to view the behavior of some of them in times of war. The prison we ran in Abu Grahib shocked most of us to the core, however, it would be naive to think that this was the only one. There were many innocent civilians killed in both Iraq and Afghanistan by rogue soldiers and often with no consequences.

If the statistics are true about the number of female soldiers that are sexually assaulted, and I believe they are, that would tell us that there a lot of rapists sexual deviant men that should be wearing prison clothes instead of uniforms. When charges are brought, we have commanding officers overturning the verdict and giving the rapists a pass.

If we really want an military that we can honor, we must do a better job of screening those who serve and have the courage it takes to hold them accountable when they commit crimes. Sadly, I think those kinds of changes are a long way off.

He was a fucking idiot who thought he was a soldier.

and Second Amendment absolutist armed and ready to water the tree of liberty with the blood of innocents.