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Message: [QUOTE="BroadwayVa, post: 1811995, member: 6118"] This comes and goes--in times of war or national security--the Leaders get very patriotic --in Peace years (can't remember many) the country tend to fall away from the military and all that means. In pre or post war times --McArthur would not have gotten away with firing on the Bonus protestors in DC in 1932 ( plus or minus a year or 2) except for the Cold War and prior it was atypical in history for the population to lose their love of the military /Vets and congress to cut appropriations deeply. If you get right down to it---why do we need to spend billions on a Military that never fights in this country only in some far away place we hardly ever knew existed until we sent men to fight there. Are they really fighting or are these just old videos?? We could save billions and maybe thousands of military lives if they never left our shores. [/QUOTE]