"Coming Home" on Lifetime TV

[ThatsMyBarack]

http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/coming-home

This is a "reality" show about soldiers surprising their loved ones as they miraculously return from Iraq and Afghanistan alive, healthy, and in one piece.

Sadly, this isn't a reality for most families left behind at home, is it? Don't most soldiers come home in pieces or in flag-draped coffins?

I think this is a show is an insult to families whose loved ones will never surprise them by coming home alive and well.

Yeah, yeah, I know--I won't watch it....

[ThatsMyBarack]

1. ....

:kick:

[patrice]

2. I don't think "most soldiers come home in pieces" but this is not a matter of how more or less of

something makes a difference in its significance.

Even one person, bound in an economic system without appropriate options to develop to the fullest of his/her qualities, propagandized by the military, ***LIED*** to about the nature of War, suffering the emotional and psychological trauma of the war environment, and ultimately wounded, maimed, or killed, even just one such person, not to mention innocents, the "enemy combatants", and "collateral damage" involved in war, is justification to have much more concern rather than just celebrating the whole thing. And just crocodile tears don't suffice either; no token sympathy, no pro-forma weeping will make the INJUSTICE of what has happened go away, no matter how many people come back okay.

[tabasco]

3. More stupid tripe from corporate propaganda dept. trivializing war.

Yay! Daddy's home from his patriotic vacation!!

[patrice]

4. Yep! . . . his testosterone-fired-"patriotic" vacation. nt

[TheDebbieDee]

5. Mommies come home from the war, too!

I just had to get that in there........I'm a mommy and I came home alive and well and in one piece. There are lots of mommies that serve this country and get sent "over there" and wind up aiding in the set-up of governments in regions where other women and their daughters won't even have rights!

[ThatsMyBarack]

6. Thanks for your service!

:patriot:

[coalition_unwilling]

7. How does helping set up governments where other women and their

daughters have few rights make you feel? Don't you feel like somehow your own government and your fellow citizens have betrayed you by using you and your brothers and sisters in arms to establish and prop up such regimes?

[TheDebbieDee]

8. Duh! That's one of the many reasons that I got out of the military.

I was young and a blank slate when I joined the Army in 1982. I grew up alot and learned alot about how things happen in the world while I was in the military....but I couldn't do anything about it!And also, before the internet everyone's access to info was pretty much relegated to CNN and news magazines.

As far as being betrayed by my fellow citizens, I'm seeing that many Americans are too stupid to know, and many more just don't care (they're too busy trying to care of their families, as am I)!

How old were you when you knew how you felt about everything going on in the world?

[coalition_unwilling]

9. I still don't know how I feel about everything going on in the world (and

I'm now in my early '50s). I became a pretty committed Democratic Socialist as a result of a couple influential college teachers in Philosophy and History at the ripe old age of 20-21. I haven't changed my world view much since then.

[SoCalDem]

10. Just more schmaltz.. Queen For A Day 21st Century Version

:puke:

[ThatsMyBarack]

11. Well put!

:hi: