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Veterans...we're sorry for how our country treated you
It’s time to stop saying thank you, and start saying sorry.
Today is Veterans Day, a day when Americans give thanks for the service of the men and women of our armed forces, who have bravely served our country, and in many cases, made the ultimate sacrifice. Veterans Day aside, our society teaches us to thank veterans for their service, but in reality, particularly for Republicans, that thanks is a big slap in the face.
We’re flooded with television ads and YouTube videos thanking veterans for their service. It’s become an obligatory thing to say: "Thank you for your service." Instead, we should be saying we're sorry to the nearly 23 million surviving veterans in America, and we're sorry to those who are no longer with us.
We should be saying we're sorry to them for destroying their lives, and for forgetting about them when they come home from the battlefields. But the apologies don’t stop there.
We should be saying sorry to the millions of veterans who fought in unjust wars that our lawmakers lied us into, and sorry to the families who lost their loved ones in those violent, deadly and completely unnecessary wars. And, we should be saying sorry for having Republican lawmakers in Washington who have repeatedly shot down bills and filibustered legislation meant to help America’s veterans.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... The $9 Billion Witness (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)
The Best of the Rest...
Daily Take: Veterans...We're Sorry For How Our Country Treated You
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Quote: "Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain.
Hour One: What would you say to a veteran?
Quote: "I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies" by Benjamin Franklin.
Quote: " If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?" -- Benjamin Franklin". Quote: " It is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest, of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." -- John Jay". Quote: " [A] hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world" -- Roger Williams". Quote: " should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book?" -- Fisher Ames". Bible: " Matthew 7:15" Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Bible: " John 8:24" I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins..
Bible: " Mark 16:15". He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
Hour Three: Our failing weather infrastructure- Kathryn Miles, Superstorm: Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy 
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