Support Our Troops and the Facebook

In my ongoing quest to further understand humanity through the Facebook, I have come across another first. UW-Whitewater has a very large "I Support Our Troops" group (636 members). If you have had the pleasure of riding in a car with me, you certainly know that I stand in clear opposition to putting ribbons on your car and displaying flags all over your SUV. It's literally the least you can do, or so I thought.

A Facebook group takes two or three clicks to join, depending on if you're invited in. That is literally the least you can do. Please, to the 636 of you, do something else. Pay your taxes, send care packages, send post cards to people you know in conflict areas, or call them. Joining a Facebook group is a worthless motion towards supporting our troops.

It's hard not to support the troops. I struggle to think of ways not to support the troops. Do you shoot back? Do you not pay your taxes? Do you throw stuff at them when they come back? Everyone who pays a dime in taxes is supporting our troops. It's easy to put ribbons on your car, join Facebook groups, but you're not accomplishing anything. Maybe the best way to support our troops is to run out there and fight with them, however, I don't see many SUV-driving, ribbon-flaunting people rushing to do that.

I got a quick laugh out of this though by noticing that the number 1 related group was "Country F*&king Rocks".

Tags: Facebook