'Stand Behind Our Troops'

A posting was making its way around Facebook yesterday. It went:

"Post this as your status for one hour: ' stand behind our troops, if you don't stand behind them, feel free to stand in front of them!, make this your status for one hour and feel free to pass along to your friends."

There is so much just plain stupid and wrong with this I don't know where to start. First of all I have Swedish, Finnish, Brazilian, Canadian, English, Scots, Irish, Russian and German friends on my Facebook. Whose troops do they stand behind? Or in front of? And if it's not 'ours' does that then mean they should be 'in front' of ours? I like my English friends, they send me Mafia Wars gifts, why should I threaten their country with invasion?

Of course that wasn't the point. But then the point is hard to see isn't it? Maybe a better posting would have been : If you are an uneducated blow hard who wants to take the easy way out and still act like a bully post: "stand behind our troops" here.

I'll tell you what to do blow hard. Just what I did when I saw these obnoxious posts. First I went to a page that rated military focused charities. Then I selected one The National Military Family Organization that pledges to help the families of 'our troops'. Not some blow hard posting, but actually helping military families with kids do things like; go to school and summer camp and get flue shots, the real help they need. I pledged a small amount of $25.

Why don't you pledge $10-$25 dollars today and make your Facebook status "I gave $20 to support our troops and their families today did you?"