blackfive.net - 12/12/2008
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I have to disagree on this one, folks. I don't think it's particularly funny, but I don't think it's demeaning or denigrating to wounded troops. The humor in that video, insofar as there is any, is to be taken from how over-the-top dumb the panelists are while bending over backward to be ...
mudvillegazette.com - 12/15/2008
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mudvillegazette.com —
... to Uncle J . Good on the
Onion for doing the right thing. Now if only
they could understand the right reason. (Ditto that to anyone who thought they were making fun of the troops.)
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... Friday, 12 December 2008 I just got an e-mail from Hooah Wife expressing her thoughts on an Onion segment dealing with wounded troops. The Onion, for those not in the know, is a satire and parody site that does some amazingly good stuff. They... read ...
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... , but in this case as in the last, I think people are misreading them. It’s not a joke on wounded soliders, as I take it, but a joke on the Pentagon placing unfair demands on the wounded to compensate for the manpower shortage. The opposing view, from reader Chuck Ziegenfuss at Blackfive’s site : I am a combat vetrean who was wounded in 2005, while servnig in Iraq. The severity of my wounds resulted in the partial amputation of my left hand, as well as nerve damage to my left hand, skin grafts on 20% of my body, traumatic brain injury, and multiple shrapnel scars. One of the ...
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