"Shut up!" ...

...I said to myself. "Just shut up with your complaining about the unimaginably lush life you get to live. Shut up with your trivial complaints. You're not getting shot at by the Nazi SS. You're not getting machine gunned on a beach with no place to hide. You're not losing your father or son in a jungle far away.

"No, you live your sickeningly deluxe life thanks to those people who did that, and to their families -- the military family is the marrow in the backbone of America. And they barely complained at all."

Here's the rest of Ben Stein's column. As I look around me, I wonder how we would react if we were being chased by fanatics wielding knives, guns, and AKA 47s?


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