On Dec 24, 4:52*pm, Lazarus Cooke
wrote:

Baxter Black is actually an ex animal Vet who re-invented himself as a
"Cowboy Poet" about the same time he lost his taste for cow **** and
found out he inherited a large hat. You need to ignore his kind of
**** and understand that we are a very large country with all kinds of
folk. Trust me, very few American combat vets put out or put up with
the kind of flag waving that armchair phonies like Black trade in. We
are going thru a bad patch right now. That's not our soldier's fault.
Our soldiers do what our country asks them to do. The pay is bad and
the work is not very pretty. Things will change and we will fix our
mess. But do not expect us to get all gushy and contrite.

Dave
And besides your own country (countries) has made a few mistakes as I
recall.