Served With Pride

The headline means served the country in the military, not served a Big Mac at the drive up window that most libs immediately thought of. The commenters to this post have called me out and said I should drop everything and enlist:

How (sic) let me ask you a question. Why aren't you in uniform? You obviously support George Bush and Karl Rove. The US Army has a recruiting crisis. The Reserves are falling apart. The Marines are in terrible shape becuse (sic) of constant rotations. We need more soldiers. And we don't need to draft leftie peaceniks who will come back from the war itching to be the next Oliver Stone or Ron Kovics do we? Get your ass down to a recruiting station and put up or shut up.

Well, believe it or not, I actually did that. I served in the US Navy and went to all kinds of scary places. Even scarier than that job interview at McDonalds. I even got these things they call medals and ribbons for my service. Kind of like being employee of the month for April 1996 at McDonalds #4672.

Here's what the ribbons look like:











And I believe I was eligible for this one but went to the civilian world before I received it:




If you want to know what they signify, you can click here.

I served proudly aboard this ship:










I even have one of those Honorable Discharge pieces of paper. Mine was actually sent to me when my time was completed, unlike John Kerry who had to pull some strings to make his legal.
Unfortunately, they won't let me back in because I'm too old. I would love to return to the Persian Gulf and support the current operations. In fact, many of my friends have done just that.

So I caution you before you call anyone out for not serving, be very careful who you are talking to. The good men and women I served with would take some offense.

By the way, I would like fries with that.