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Eric Harmeling is obviously wise beyond his years. At the ripe old age of 21 he has seen so much that he is able to opine that Memorial Day is akin to Emperor Caesar forcing him to worship the legion on bended knee.

I am indeed curious to hear some examples of how poor Eric has been oppressed and forced to worship the warrior class...
...on second thought, hey Eric, sit down and shut the fuck up.
-Or you could just say thank you and go about your business.

Its been my observation over the last ten years that people like Eric Harmeling can't wait to force me to celebrate the flaming homosexual lifestyle in the spirit of inclusiveness. (but lord forbid you honor the legion)
-People like Eric can't wait to accuse me of being a racist because I am critical of the black president. (just dont ask that you honor the legion)
-People like Eric demand that I celebrate women's equality by submitting to gender norming and feigned equality. (just dont ask that you honor the legion)
-People like Eric tend to brush off the sacrifice of service members through snide remarks that he is being "being told to kneel down and worship."

On the other end of the spectrum is 90 year old George Baroff.
Mr. Baroff is a psychology professor in Chapel Hill.
Mr Baroff is a member of academia, a smart guy, a man with an education, a man that is obviously above the peasants because he is a professor and is clearly smarter that the unwashed, uneducated masses...
...but wait:
Mr Baroff also served in WW2.
Mr Baroff remembers a time when EVERYBODY served.
Mr. Baroff seems to understand things like respect, sacrifice, and commitment.
...I wonder how snot nosed little punks like Eric would have looked at the world back in the early 1940's?

Mr Baroff seems to think that there is no sense of shared sacrifice anymore.
Mr Baroff thinks there is no shared sense of national purpose.
Mr Baroff has a war record and probably thinks he is entitled to some worship as well.
Mr Baroff is 90 years old... what the fuck does he know. He's just an old man.
...maybe the psychology professor should listen to the wise words of Eric Harmeling and maybe he can expand his horizons.

I respect Mt Baroff.
I don't worship him.

I RESPECT the office of the President of the United States
...others worship him as though he has brought the country back from the brink

I RESPECT the men and women, past and present, that have chosen to serve in the United States Military...
...I don't worship them either. To worship them would be disrespectful. It would imply that they serve with the expectation that they will be worshiped.

There is a vast chasm between worship and that old nuisance that some of us know as respect...
...a VAST fucking chasm.

Some people confuse the two. It's funny, you'd think that people who are SOOO educated and SOOO enlightened that they need to offer us their whimsical insight to the human condition would be able to tell the differenve between "worship" and "respect"
...but they can't

Some people are just too smart for their own good.
...and their condescending tone gives me the shits.

Some of us use memorial day to remember and respect men and women that have forgotten more about respect than people like Eric Harmeling will ever know.
Those men and women gave their last measure so that little shitheads like Eric can have his opinion.
It is with a confused heart that I admit, if the day ever comes, I hope I would be man enough to willingly make that same sacrifice for the benefit of young Eric.

Thank you for you service Mr. Baroff.
Go fuck yourself Eric Harmeling.
...your friends and apologists can go with you.
..........you little hippy fag