On Memorial Day 2007, I am going to pin those medals and awards on my shirt that pertain to my service as a Combat Infantryman during the Vietnam War. I am going to attend services at Ft. Bliss National Cemetary. I am going there to pay homage to the fallen warriors of all our wars.

On that day, I will care not for others opinions about our current wars in Iraq and Afganistan. I will care only for souls of the honored dead.

How can we honor our servicemen and women from the past, as well we should, and sit idly by while casualties mount daily in a botched and bungled bloodbath in Iraq? I intend to honor history, including my own insignificant 4 years during the Vietnam War, and also protest, in every legal way, the thuggery and incompetence of the government that purports to represent me.

What the troops need is not more funding for the war in Iraq but a large show of force by the American people in order to show them who really cares about them.

Sometimes however some tough love is in order. If some of the troops and the American Legion don't know what's good for them an overwhelming mass of the American people do, and a large outpouring of Americans into the streets on Memorial Day is an apt show of respect and the will of the American people to end a war that has only shown contempt and disrespect for those who serve in our armed forces.

So let George Bush and his band of butchers see who really supports the troops. March, protest and try to convince democrats in the congress and the senate that we've had enough.