I WANT YOU

Dear John McCain:

I am the extremely grateful great-granddaughter of a World War I veteran and two World War II veterans and I am an unbelievably honored and blessed daughter of a Vietnam veteran. I am lucky to be an American. I won the birth lottery.

My father served our country as a volunteer, not a draftee, and surpassed 99 out of every 100 men who attempted to climb the elite military ranks to the most revered and respected team in the Army: Special Forces - The Green Berets. He served two terms in a war many disrespected and didn't understand. And he came home to a country filled with many people who hated him for what he did...in their name...for them. He hates Jane Fonda. I grew up thinking she was a cool exercise guru.

I adore my father. I am so very lucky to be his child. I won the birth lottery.

Guess what? I'm still voting for Barack Hussein Obama.

Yes, Mr. McCain, I am also extremely grateful to you and what you did for me and my country and my fellow citizens but I am choosing to look forwards and upwards. I would rather follow a man that would like to expand HOW WE THINK, how we approach opportunity, someone who would like to turn to the world with a graciousness....not teach our children to fear for our future because of what you experienced in the past. I want more than a good job and enough gas and a television. I want it all. I'm an American.

If I ever have a child that, Heaven please forbid, has to, or chooses to, join a branch of military to defend my life and our country, I want him or her to have something they are honored to defend other than a TIRED NOTION OF PRIDE.

I am appalled that you would whore your service to your country and raise your experiences above those of your brothers in order to win an election. I listened to you tell your tale and I choked back tears thinking of the terrible things you must have endured, things I couldn't possibly begin to understand or imagine, but that, Sir, with the utmost respect, does NOT make you a hero.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Selling fear and loathing to build a bigger Las Vegas.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Elizabeth Boutell