Infuriating!

I got up this morning and, as usual, I checked my e-mails as I sipped on my first cup of coffee. I found an e-mail from a Military News web site mentioning the ward of the sixth Medal of Honor since the war in Afghanistan started following the September 11 attacks.

The MOH was awarded to Army Sgt. Jared Monti for his conspicuous gallantry in combat for an action that took place in Afghanistan on June 21, 2006.
As the leader of a 16-man patrol, Sgt. Monti was engaged by a force that outnumbered his by 4 to 1 and while leading his men to take cover he returned fire against the enemy.
As Sgt. Monti got on the radio to request Close Air Support and indirect fire (artillery) he realized that one of his men had been wounded and was exposed to enemy fire. He repeatedly attempted to reach his man to take him to safety but during the lat attempt, he was mortally wounded by an RPG.
Directing his patrol’s fire and calling in CAS and indirect fire, Sgt. Monti was able to avoid his men from taking higher casualties and being overrun, while inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy.

Sgt. Jared Monti, 12 years Army veteran and American Hero, will be officially awarded the MOH posthumously in the White House on September 17.

These are the facts. Here are my thoughts.

I looked all around the usual News outlet on line right after I learned about Jared Monti, and no mention could be found anywhere about this American soldier nor his family.

As I continued to browse through the sites, I could feel anger growing inside me. Nowhere any mention could be found about Sgt. Monti or the fact that he is to receive the highest decoration this country gives to a Military member, not even after the Hero gave his life for his country and his fellow soldiers.
All is splattered across the Media is the Beer Summit to take place tonight in the White House between Obama, Gates and Sgt. Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department, in Obama’s attempt to take his foot out of his mouth. A racist President and a racist professor will sit down with a police officer that has never, according to all accounts, ever expressed racist sentiments, but was accused by a black elitist who just saw a way to enrich his resume by adding a fictitious fight against a fictitious police abuse. Even the make of beer that Obama will have gets more news coverage than the story of an American Hero.

Obamacare is all over the News, even if nothing will be done for months. The allocation of “stimulus” money to the porn industry gets coverage, but nothing about Sgt. Monti.
Michael Jackson has been dead for a while and still News about him continues to appear. But nothing about Sgt. Monti.

And you are still asking what’s wrong with our culture? You are still wondering about the disconnect between the Military and the Civilian worlds?
I am not surprised any longer, just completely infuriated by it.
I am pissed about the brainwashing the Liberals have conducted against the Military. I am incensed by the total and unchecked ignorance of the average American regarding the sacrifices the American Military and their families make in order to insure that their freedom to be idiots is safeguarded.

Not too long ago I walked into the local Military Surplus store looking for some decals to place on my motorcycle. I picked a POW/MIA sticker and the 19-20 years old young woman behind the counter got one for me and asked me what POW/MIA stands for. I paused for a second to make sure she was not joking, then proceeded to explain the meaning to her. She gained one of those blank stares and I got the impression that she had no idea about Vietnam, the war or anything else I was speaking of. I am positive, though, that she could name the finalists of American Idol for the last three years!

Yes, the apathy of the average American toward anything that is related to the Military is appalling, an open insult to those who risk their lives every day wearing the uniform of the United States Armed Forces, perpetrated by the elitist leading class of politicians that soil the halls of Congress and the White House, of American universities.

This is truly infuriating!

And these are my thoughts!
Frank “Semperpapa”