A Quote From An Old Vet

[ThomWV]

I ran across this link to a small website that had a quote in it I thought you all would enjoy as much as I did.

http://monkeyseyebrow.org/Commentary.html

There are some amusing stories there but this is the quote I thought you'd like:

"It inevitably upsets me when I hear one of the political folks talk about supporting the troops by making sure we appropriate money to provide equipment and supplies for them to use in Iraq. It seems to me that the message is, “When one of our soldiers gets killed, we want to make sure he had the best equipment we could provide.”

When I was serving in the military – Army first, Navy later – if given the choice between dying surrounded by the finest available equipment and living surrounded by junk, I would have chosen the latter."