Thought on this Veterans Day, and musings on Ft Hood

As i sit back , and remember the many veterans today, both past , and present , i honor their sacrifices , and their achievments, i remember being told when i joined the service , that only 2 have willingly laid down their lives for others , 1 being Jesus, and the other , the Americanfightingman, i have to expand that to include the American Citizen , and as of the 1970s , they have done so volentarily, so to all veterans , past and present , my heartfelt thanks to you, and to those families that have had a veteran give the ultimate sacrifice , , i can only offer a sincer thank you .
This Veterans day is somewhat subdued , due to the events at Ft Hood texas, and im still both in a state of shock and outrage , both that something like this can happen , and that the so called unbiased media cannot see the simple fact , that this WAS a terrorist act, i cannot see their logic , that it was anything other, and all the reporting to the contrary and the suposition that there were other causes , just dont seem to hold water for me, the act was perpertrated , premeditated , and carried out , by an individual, that had a different point of view, he had a political end in mind and he chose to use violence to gain his end, now call me provincial , but if it walks like and quacks like , it is.And ist that exactly what a terrorist is defined as? someone that uses violence to achieve a political end.
We are being told not to jump to conclusions , on this , its kind of hard when all one has to do is just connect the dots with what is out there.
Now maybe the government , and the media dont want to start a frezy, maybe they wish to avoid , actually admitting , that there is a war going on that has been going on for the better part of a millenia, maybe, they are burying their heads in the sand.
there is going to be a lot of blame shifted around , alot of fingers pointed , but the cruel hard fact is , 1 person did this , for their own reasons , and affected not only the lives immediately invoplved , but their families , and the whole of the american peoples , i dont see how it cannot , and whitewashing and avoiding or omitting facts , isnt going to help anyone, least of all those directly involved, i for one will now be keeping an eye on people that i know have differing views , (paranoia, profiling, yep) is that bigotry? maybe , but its also called a survival instinct, and as of yet , is still perfectly legal .
So to the men women and families from Ft Hood , my thoughts are with you during this trying time.