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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:22 PM Original message |
Poll question: Is there a difference between "Support the Troops" and Thanking the Troops? |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:26 PM Response to Original message |
1. 6/1 so far. |
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obama_girl (52 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
2. Not sure what I should thank them for |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Thank you for doing their job so I don't have to. I know what you mean too. |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. where was this thread that said if you don't sign on you're 'bad' ? |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:53 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. not nec a thread, in the bigger world. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. "so I don't have to." |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:56 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. No. It is saying thank you for doing that job since I'm doing something else |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:56 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Somebody's got to be a teacher. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:58 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Very true, that. |
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Mrs. Overall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Another interesting nuance is that I feel the troops are being exploited and so do I |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:58 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. We do both |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 03:01 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. There you go, DOING something and not just saying it. Good job, sincerely |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 03:06 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. I think I just had a lightbulb go off |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 11:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. I think that is part of the problem also. Have had some interesting stuff here. |
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Mrs. Overall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 03:05 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. I guess I'm trying to get at a deeper thing here (forgive me as I'm just trying to wrestle with this |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 03:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. No no, you have it right, it IS complicated |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
4. The answer varies, depending on the context. - n/t |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
5. It means what you say it does |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
6. They're both meaningless, IMO. |
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mudesi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
11. Thanking means you support the war, supporting means you want the war to end (nm) |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 02:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Hmm, that is opposite how I mean it. Interesting, really. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
20. I'm always perplexed when someone "thanks" me for my "service". |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
22. As the Chair of the Veterans' Diversity Committee at a Federal contractor ... |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-28-07 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
23. they don't serve to get a lame ass "Thankyou" from a stranger |
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