[antimedia] antimedia: Another article my Marine buddy drew my attention to....

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Another article my Marine buddy drew my attention to....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1153156095.shtml


   ....was [1]Ben Stein's final column for E! Online. Stein, surrounded
   by the opulence and luxury of Hollywood, found himself changing, his
   value system altering significantly, and things he once thought
   important were fading into irrelevance. He wrote about those feelings
   in his last column, titled How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury
   Be a Star in Today's World?
   I think Stein spoke for a lot of us when he wrote

     We put couples with incomes of $100 million a year on the covers of
     our magazines. The noncoms and officers who barely scrape by on
     military pay but stand on guard in Afghanistan and Iraq and on
     ships and in submarines and near the Arctic Circle are anonymous as
     they live and die.
     I am no longer comfortable being a part of the system that has such
     poor values, and I do not want to perpetuate those values by
     pretending that who is eating at Morton's is a big subject.

   Isn't it time that we Americans paid homage to those who really
   matter, rather than those who think they matter? How is it that the
   opinion of someone who has made millions by singing songs or making
   movies is more important than the opinion of someone who has served on
   the battlefield and knows what real sacrifice is? How is it that
   someone who has inherited vast wealth is more important than someone
   who toils away in education, teaching future generations of leaders?
   How did America become so shallow that we find entertainment in the
   private lives of people who do little or nothing for months on end
   while jetting around the world on a whim?
   What are you doing to change it?

References

   1. http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Morton/Archive/2003/031220.html