Originally Posted By Donny This was a great day to be an American soldier <a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2012/01/wounded-veteran-walks-with-american-flag-at-magic-kingdom-park/" target="_blank">http://disneyparks.disney.go.c...om-park/</a>
Originally Posted By Labuda Wow, 2 purple hearts... he's darned lucky to be alive, and yay that his wheelchair may not be a permanent accessory as he continues his physical therapy.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox Donny, I think you should have placed this topic in WDW General, since this event took place at MK. Not enough LP posters come into our beloved political chaos factory known as 'World Events,' and I know other posters would appreciate this story. It should be moved. I'll ask the ubiquitous admins to relocate it.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox I disagree. The event took place at MK. It was reported by Disney on their Blog web site. Plus, if you leave the thread in WE and don't move it to a more popular board, like WDW General, fewer LP readers will be aware of it. If you don't care that fewer LP readers will see your thread, go ahead and tell the moderators to leave it in the discussion desert of WE. But if you want more people to know about this event, then it should be moved.
Originally Posted By Labuda Yeah, I gotta side with skinner here... this is not a WE topic; it's about Disney, specifically WDW: General, I'd say.
Originally Posted By Donny I posted this beacuse of this mans love of country wich is a world event.I post these all the time but because it has a touch of Disney you want to move it.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <I posted this beacuse of this mans love of country wich is a world event.> Well, not really. Most people love their country, and that goes for all countries. Most Americans love America, most Poles love Poland, most Brazilians love Brazil. If it's a world event, it's not a very controversial one... unless you somehow believe that them dang liberals don't love their country, and this man's very presence is somehow a rebuke to us, or that we won't like this guy for some reason... which I think Donny probably does think deep down, and is the reason he posted it here ("ha ha! Get a load of this - in your FACE, liberals!!"), and only shows how wrong he has it (and us), once again. There, I just made it a WE topic. And ironically, SB's original impulse to have it moved so that MORE people would see it was completely lost on Donny, and now it probably won't happen. (If it was going to be moved by the admins by now, it wasn't going to be.) So I think I'll just repost the link there as its own, entirely non-controversial topic, so more people CAN see it. It's a great story.
Originally Posted By skinnerbox <<If it's a world event, it's not a very controversial one... unless you somehow believe that them dang liberals don't love their country, and this man's very presence is somehow a rebuke to us, or that we won't like this guy for some reason... which I think Donny probably does think deep down, and is the reason he posted it here ("ha ha! Get a load of this - in your FACE, liberals!!"), and only shows how wrong he has it (and us), once again.>> I didn't want to go down this road originally. I wanted to give Donny the benefit of the doubt by thinking he simply misplaced the posting. But I knew after reading his response last night ("Skinner, leave it alone") that he wasn't posting the link simply because it's a terrific story. He was posting specifically here in WE as an attack against the progressive Dems who participate on this board, as Dabob has nicely summarized. I wanted to state this very idea with my reply in post #6, but decided to focus more on emphasizing the wider audience the story needed instead of rising up to Donny's bait. And just so you know, Donny... I was once a military wife. I know what it's like to have your spouse sent away to a remote tour of duty for a full year with nothing but snail mail for contact. I've always been supportive of our troops, because I know how difficult and challenging military life is, for everyone in the family. Whether you like it or not, a huge percentage of our troops and vets vote Democrat. They are not all Republican teabaggers like you. So quit trying to claim some kind of moral superiority as a vet because you vote Republican. It's dishonest. Dems care about the troops and their service, maybe even more so. And if you bothered to actually read and listen to more moderate and progressive news once in a while, you'd know that.
Originally Posted By Labuda I love that my older brother (the one here in Austin who, like me, bleeds blue) had made, as soon as Obama was elected, bumper stickers that say "I support the President and I support our troops"
