Veterans Day

You know something that I found kind of odd recently? We just celebrated Veteran's Day yesterday November 11th 2008. In my email I recieved numerous "Happy Veteran's Day" emails, many of them stating just how very much we owe our veterans and how our freedoms are secured by the sacrifices that our veterans made and make for us and our great nation.All of which I could not agree with more, for every word of that is the truth. It is indeed the veterans that keep this country strong, free and safe. I appreciate each and every one of them in my heart and in my soul.But what I found very odd or maybe a better term would be "confusing" about these emails and this Veteran's Day, was the fact that we just had our nations Presidential election. In the election race there were two main candidates. The Democrat candidate ofcourse being Barack Hussien Obama, and the Republican candidate being ofcourse John McCain.The thing I find relatively confusing about this celebration of Veterans Day, and all of the ceremonies and praises of the American War Veterans and all of the emails I recieved with words of honor and full support of the veterans, was the fact that in the campaign for The United States Presidency, it basically came down to two candidates, Obama and McCain. Now one of those candidates has never been a veteran and has never really served his country, that candidate is Barack Hussien Obama. But the other candidate is a man that is a highly honored and decorated veteran of war. A man who infact did serve his country and offered up his own life for our very freedom.Now the confusing part of this Veteran's Day, how is it that just days after the election in which the winning candidate was voted in by a large majority of voters, turned out to be the candidate that has never served his country? How is it that we can claim so much honor and admiration, thankfulness and support for our veterans, that a great veteran such as John McCain was defeated in the election for president of this country? I find that very confusing and even contradictory to the appreciation and honor we claim to hold in our hearts for our American veterans.I mean come on, if we believe in our veterans so much as we claim we do, and appreciate them as much as we claim we do, then how can something such as this happen? If a man or woman volunteers and signs the line and puts on the uniform of a soldier and goes willingly into harm's way for this country of ours and for us, then isn't that man or woman a veteran that we claim all of this appreciation and honor for? Well on this election day, I think we failed miserably in showing that we really mean it when we celebrate the veterans and speak words of honor about them. I think we showed just how fake many of us are when it comes to truth, honor and country. A man was voted into office basically just because of his skin color, which would make history by being the first of his race to be president of this country, it certainly was not because of his accomplishments or his experience, for he lacks terribly in both columns. But a man that has given to this country all of his life, was basically dismissed by the voters in the country that he has given his life to. This is something that I just found very confusing as I watched us celebrate veterans day and sung the praises of American veterans. How ironic that we did this just days after we greatly dismissed the experience and sacrifice of one of our great veterans John McCain. But by dismissing one veteran such as him, are we not infact dismissing the other veterans as well?Just something to think about.