Coalition Forces participate in a Veterans Day remembrance ceremony on Multinational Base Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan, Afghanistan, Nov. 11, 2011. U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jocelyn Ford
U.S. Soldiers At War: The Forgotten 1 Percent -- Will Bardenwerper, Washington Post
The Occupy Wall Street movement slogan “We are the 99 percent” is ironic to many of those who are serving, or have served, in Afghanistan or Iraq. Our servicemen and women are not the 1 percent of Americans whom OWS condemns. Rather, this 1 percent goes ignored by the self-proclaimed 99 percent in Zuccotti Park, as well as by those looking down on the protesters from their offices at Goldman Sachs or Citibank. And it is not lost on those fighting in Afghanistan that it was bank accounts, not an interest in or concern for those patrolling Kandahar, that motivated the protesters to take to the streets in cities across America.
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My Comment: Could not have said it any better.