Roderick: That’s an excellent point. Custer’s Last Stand was romanticized into something greater than what it was. Custer was an idiot who didn’t listen to his subordinates and took them all into the worst ambush ever. The press at that time was a cheerleader and portrayed it like it was the Alamo. It clearly wasn’t. It was a stupid mistake brought on by arrogance and disregard for his enemy.

Tet is a good example of a victory turned to defeat by IO. Tet was a strategic blunder by the Viet Cong that resulted in a tactical defeat in detail, resulting in the destruction of the VC as a viable force. Our lovely press turned it into an IO disaster. It completed the destruction of American popular support for the successful prosecution of the war.

Remember that the guys who run the MSM now cut their teeth on that.

We do deserve our military and everything that is right and wrong with it. We deserve every president we get, every kudo and every black eye. These are times that try the arguments of the founding fathers between the nobility of man and the idiocy of man. The information is out here, but so many fail to look. Our press has failed us in their zeal to skewer the sitting president and their taste for a new Tet.

But we are still a nation which breeds such as those nine and their comrades who still live who fought that fight in Waygal. We may be a nation rife with diseased thinking, but we deserve even the greatness of those soldiers.

Yes, we Americans deserve our military. Does our military deserve us?