Caleb Campbell & Lion's Dilemma: He's a Recruiter & It IS About Troop Morale

Plus what if some protestor got really out of hand on 'ole Caleb?

It isn’t about his classmates.  It is about the ones he and his classmates order about on a daily basis, and sometimes to their deaths. The enlisted men are over-there sweating it out every day, stinking like pork sweats and no bath for a month, seeing no loved ones, no girlfriends, eating Meal Ready to Eat kits, not knowing how they’re families are doing, not seeing their kids and living every day under the threat of being shot, or blown up whilst being in 115 degree weather and in a perma-state of ball soup.

They serve so that their kid brothers and sisters, cousins, neighbors, or kids won’t have to do the same thing, and some get injured bad, while others don't make it out, but move on in grace.

The last thing a soldier, or the military wants to think of is how that guy is back in the states, making millions, partying with cheer-leaders (no, not ESPN reporters), playing football and traveling about the United States while they are in a place like Fallujah, or Hallabja - where there is proof of WMD's and it is just not reported.

Take it from a Veteran, this is not about NCAA rules and regulations, this is about the enlisted.  Not the officers, but the millions that serve them and thousands that die under them who need their morale to be positive and need society to be supportive, which doesn’t mean demean their service and all those dead by bringing them home from what some call a worthless war-that smarts.

The troop morale should not be undermined, especially while some say that all the Iraqi government has to do is to care for its’ people and then we can come home.  What has been going on over there for the past thousand years? It is an ongoing religious war that has roots back to the 12th century, along with having ties to Hitler.

Lion's Coach and Vietnam Veteran, Rod Marinelli, said of Campbell, "He was issued a helmet and all ready to go."  Coach would do well to recall the helmet of honor which is required of all who sign to "serve." It is what it is, an unfortunate delay of one who voluntarily made a promise - he wasn't drafted by the military.

This war is not a game and ESPN ought to take better care for those that fight and die in it. Then again, ESPN is owned by Disney who's considering a merger with CNN.  Jane Fonda was married to CNN owner Ted Turner and she was a war sympathizer, just on the wrong side. 

She actually went to Vietnam and visited the Hanoi Hilton where McCain was held prisoner for 5 long years after being shot down in a Navy Jet.  She turned troops over to the North Vietnam officers because they were trying to pass notes to her, that said thing like, "Hey, can you tell my mom I am still alive?" or "What year is it?"

These type politics are of the same mind frame that want to merge with ESPN/Walt Disney so it is consistent that they pollute the subject of soldiers voluntarily fighting for our way of life in such a poor manner.

Ms. Fonda-Turner protested openly in the US against our troops and joined John Kerry in France in support of North Vietnam cheering him on as he threw his medals away…the same medals that represent military-honor and for which millions have died, yet he just casually tossed them aside like trinkets to feed the politically starving.  It's a good thing the 60s aren't around anymore.

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