Hal Muskat: don’t thank me

Yes, there are 363 days every year to express your personal disrespect for soldiers. Just like a black person thinks he has a right to call other black people the “n” word, some veterans think they can use Veterans’ Day to call other veterans vile names. Hal Muskat, one of the original zombies of the VVAW, is just like that. He begins his Veterans Day rant by trying to undo all of the work veterans and their service organizations have accomplished over the last thirty years;

Every time I hear, “Thank-you for serving!” I want to reply, “Fuck You!”

For which of the following are you thanking me:
a) learning how to do field abortions on “pregnant gook girls”;
b) Being part of a military that is responsible for millions of deaths in Vietnam;
c) Refusing orders to Vietnam;
d) Participating in the GI Movement;
e) Thinking for myself;
f) Not thinking for myself;
g) Following or not following orders?

Now, if I read that correctly, and in reverse order, Muskat never went to Vietnam, but somehow performed “field abortions” on Vietnamese women? I guess he’s another Doug Zachary and Ward Reilly who want you to think he went to Vietnam, but didn’t.

Then he establishes his right to call veterans names on their day;

As a member of the United States Army from 1965 – 1970, I was NOT defending America, our allies, your families or friends. America was NOT being attacked by the Vietnamese, much in the same way that America is NOT being attacked by Iraqis.

I for one, do NOT thank current soldiers for their service in Iraq or Afghanistan! I thank and honor those who repudiate this nation’s militarism. I thank Iraq Veterans Against the War for their thought, action and lives. I thank those veterans who organized and testified at the IVAW Winter Soldier Hearings last year and who continue to give witness to atrocity and mayhem.

On Veteran’s Day, I salute, in addition to IVAW, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Veterans For Peace, The National Liberation Front of Vietnam, WWII Allied Forces led by General Dwight Eisenhower; I salute Resistance Fighters against the nazi’s throughout Europe; Resistance movements from South Africa to South Harlem, from Philadelphia to Nicaragua where my government spent millions attempting to overthrow a democratic government who’s president had the nerve to be critical of the United States.

This level of ignorance and stupidity has only one cure – a swift kick in the ‘nads. Repeatedly. He was a failure, so he thinks that, because you’re not a failure like him, you don’t have the right to be credited for your faithful service to the nation.

Yeah, Hal, I’m guessing not too many people have thanked you for your level of service to your country. No wonder you’re bitter.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Phony soldiers