I have participated in fund raising efforts for the 'Wounded Warriors Project.' I suppose that I am one of millions emotionally motivated watching leg less, armless and maimed military veterans in television ads and promos for the 'Project.' We likely all agree that our hearts ache for those horrifically injured men and women whose lives are changed forever from crippling injuries sustained while protecting our Nation. I pray for them nightly.
The aforementioned embraced, I find it in disgustingly sick taste for politicians, government officials or news reporters to use the term, 'boots on the ground' when speaking of military soldiers sent into war-zone-battles. The term is an insult to the mothers who birthed these lives. The term 'boots on the ground' subliminally minimizes the value of life. Therefore, when you hear some War hawks flippantly suggest, "We need more boots on the ground," remember they are talking about 'babes on the ground;' a mother's child in THOSE boots.
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