We do go to the VFW quite a bit, my father-in-law is a member. My military service, thankfully, fell between wars, and as such, I'm not qualified to be a member. The VFW hall out on Stockton Blvd. is pretty nice. We've hosted a number of family events there; weddings, birthdays, parties, and we've attended quite a few other events. Halloween bashes, breakfasts, etc. My old neighbor used to mind the register. It is a nice place to socialize. But I can't help but think of the next generation of members, the veterans of future wars, who will be tending bar, maintaining the hall, and consuming alcohol in copious quanties. What future wars will they be waging? West African Light? Venezuelan Heavy? Iranian Pre-emptive? Pakistani Incursion?
We don't have any VDW halls in America, but if we continue down the path we're on, I don't doubt we might find ourselves in some sort of domestic entanglement. All we need is one single resource constraint and you can be assured this nation of NASCAR morons will wage war to preserve their entitlement.
Will we be filling that hall with veterans of future domestic wars, or veterans of future foreign wars?
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