"The PROTESTER”: Time Magazine’s Person of the Year

"I wanted to die right then. I hear a voice yelling, 'Lieutenant ... Lieutenant ... oh my God ... I think the lieutenant is dead. ...' I remember being drug and put into a vehicle. ... I was screaming the whole time ... but with most of my face blown off and my mouth destroyed ... it came out as this ghostlike hollow sound ... not even human. The next thing I remember was waking up weeks later at Walter Reed Army Hospital in D.C."

--Lieutenant D.J. Skelton

You likely know by now that the last U.S. soldiers rolled out of Iraq across the border into neighboring Kuwait at daybreak Sunday.

The un-declared war cost nearly 4,500 American lives and more than 100,000 Iraqi lives and almost $1 trillion ($800 billion) from the U.S. Treasury.

With this in mind, from our point of view Time Magazine has its priorities all wrong with its choice of “The Protestor,” for its 2011 Person of the year. 

Our Person of the Year is the American soldier—especially as the last U.S. soldiers left Iraq—who through their service and sacrifice to this country for 236 years have defended and protected the rights of “The Protestor" to protest.

Roy Exum a so-called “grassroots contributor" to THE PATRIOT POST has a similar point of view in his commentary piece entitled: My 2011 Man of the Year (MUST READ). And although our troops have left the battlefields of Iraq, many will face another, potentially lifelong, battle here at home .  ABC’s Christiane Amanpour interviewed Army General Peter Chiarelli about the devastating “invisible wounds and scars” of war facing our returning troops and their families.

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