# How Do They "Support the Troops" Down in Texas? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 16, 2005, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219 "2005-08-16T05:10:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/41 "2005-08-18T05:16:16Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > > [@Wolfian](#): > > > > My ex lives in Texas and she does indeed suck. > > Is she hot? Hey, if she sucks she doesn’t _need_ to be hot! ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/42 "2005-08-18T07:10:41Z")
And **Uncle Beer** demonstrates why he sticks with Ruch Limbaugh, where they spell everything out for him in words of two syllables or less. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/43 "2005-08-18T13:30:34Z")
> [@mks57](#): > > According to the blog, there were 800 crosses. What are your thoughts on the several hundred American flags he also ran over? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/44 "2005-08-18T13:59:53Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > What are your thoughts on the several hundred American flags he also ran over? He ran over flags too? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/45 "2005-08-18T14:05:32Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > He ran over flags too? [Yes](http://www.newswatch50.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=9348F371-596A-467E-8F4E-F826CB829148). > [@](#): > > Police said about 500 crosses and several U.S. flags were run over by the truck. ---
**Author:** ![mks57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@mks57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mks57)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/46 "2005-08-18T14:06:11Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > What are your thoughts on the several hundred American flags he also ran over? He shouldn’t have done it. Personally, I can’t get too worked up over the flag. It should be treated with respect but it isn’t a holy icon. What I don’t like is any group that uses the deaths of other people’s family members for political purposes. Even if you are opposed to the war, you should show some respect for the dead and wounded, and everyone else who is serving the country in the armed services. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/47 "2005-08-18T14:15:23Z")
> [@mks57](#): > > What I don’t like is any group that uses the deaths of other people’s family members for political purposes. Well shit man, that’s about all of them! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/48 "2005-08-18T14:16:01Z")
> [@mks57](#): > > What I don’t like is any group that uses the deaths of other people’s family members for political purposes. Does that mean I am a bad person if I carry a sign that says, “No Blood for Oil” ? ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/49 "2005-08-18T14:22:13Z")
Gee, I always thought I was being deeply respectful when I expressed my sincerest wish that American soldiers’ lives be spent on nothing less than a clear threat to the lives American citizens by an outside agressor, versus, say, a kleptocratic geopolitical gambit to secure free-flowing oil for the greediest bastards of this world, who suffer no pain for the sacrifices of our American dead. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/50 "2005-08-18T14:22:19Z")
In [this](http://www2.operationtruth.com/dia/organizations/OpTruth/blog/) letter we can see some of the stories behind those exploititve political operatives you so fear. ---
**Author:** ![mks57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@mks57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mks57)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/51 "2005-08-18T14:58:10Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > Does that mean I am a bad person if I carry a sign that says, “No Blood for Oil” ? No, just don’t claim to be speaking for people that you don’t know and have never met. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/52 "2005-08-18T15:11:35Z")
> [@mks57](#): > > No, just don’t claim to be speaking for people that you don’t know and have never met. Is that what erecting a white cross is? Speaking for someone else? ---
**Author:** ![mks57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@mks57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mks57)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/53 "2005-08-18T15:20:54Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#): > > Is that what erecting a white cross is? Speaking for someone else? Yes, if you put their name on it. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/54 "2005-08-18T15:33:34Z")
> [@mks57](#): > > Yes, if you put their name on it. Gosh, there sure are alot of people speaking for that "INRI’ dude. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/55 "2005-08-18T15:42:20Z")
[This article](http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050817/NEWS06/508170436/1012) includes a picture of a woman identified as a Bush supporter working to put the crosses back up. Just more proof that you’ll find all kinds in any political movement. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/56 "2005-08-18T15:56:09Z")
One of our leases is in Crawford so I’ll be over there sometime Sept. 1st thru the 3rd and will somewhat hesitantly observe all this carnage firsthand. Growing up 25 minutes away, we’ve scoured Crawford for twenty something years in search of the perfect abandoned quarry for swimming in, perfect field for hunting in, taking friends to dive off Tonkawa Falls, etc. It’s always just been a sleepy little town perched on the edge of the Lampassas Cut Plain and a great place for us hunters and rockhounds to explore. That got shot in the ass when Bush became Pres (_Bush came to shove?_) and obviously this lastest conflagration will only have made matters worse. I’d imagine it’s a lot like what happened on the other side of town when Koresh came from who knows where to set up his camp and then, after a confrontation, had hordes of media swarm the area. Folks out there like their quiet. It’s why they’re there in the first place and a disruption of such magnitude is going to be met with some reservation, especially the longer they’re drug out. I think a lot of the folks there, irregardless of their political persuasions, are just tired of the damn circus and they’re ready for it to end and for life to return to some semblance of normalcy. Can’t say I blame 'em one bit. We’ll probably visit with the locals when we stop in to get some beer, shells or bacon, might even drive by Camp Casey. But, to be honest, I doubt we’ll offer much encouragement to the parties on either side of the road. ---
**Author:** ![mks57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@mks57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mks57)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/57 "2005-08-18T16:00:45Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Gosh, there sure are alot of people speaking for that "INRI’ dude. [Previously Mentioned Article](http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050817/NEWS06/508170436/1012) > [@](#): > > A resident was arrested Monday night after authorities say he drove over hundreds of small wooden crosses bearing names of fallen U.S. soldiers. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-they-support-the-troops-down-in-texas/317219/58 "2005-08-18T16:10:44Z")
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