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Come to Fayetteville and walk through any store's parking lot.
Some of the popular bumper stickers seen on cars with Fort Bragg registration decals:
* various incarnations of the Jesus-fish-shaped ribbon...the yellow one that says Support our Troops, the flag-pattern one that says God Bless the USA, ones that say God Bless My Soldier, God Protect My Daddy and other pro-troops stickers.
* "Half of my heart is in Iraq"
* "Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran"
In your town, a flag-waving bumper sticker is probably on a chickenhawk's car; in mine, there's a real good chance it's on a soldier's car.
The WWII Greatest Generation is passing...but I don't think most of these cases are intended for those men. They're intended for the guys who wind up on the front page of the local paper under the headline "82nd Airborne soldiers killed in Iraq." They run an article under this head so often, the head is kept as a piece of boilerplate on the pasteboard of the front page layout template.
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