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Needed a good laugh

And I found it, courtesy of the North Carolina GOP.

In a tweet attacks Tim Kaine for wearing a "Honduras Flag" lapel pin during his speech, using the word shameful. Too stupid to recognize a Blue Star Family pin. A pin Tom Kaine wears in honor of his son 1st Lt. Nathaniel Kaine USMC, currently deployed in Europe, Lt Kaine is an Infantry officer with 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines garrisoned at Camp Lejune, North Carolina.

Too funny that in a state with major military installations, large population of military families, they did not recognize the pin or bother to confirm what the pin was before jumping to attack.

Thanks for the laugh @NCGOP

Unfortunately my laughter has been short lived because it is just another glaring example of the false patriotism that permeates so much of our society.

Wearing flags on our lapels and cheering for our troops does not mean a damn thing if we do not fully fund the VA and ensure that our Veterans and their families are taken care of when they come home. Yes the VA has problems, but choking the system by under funding or turning it into a privatized money maker for some lucky corporations will only make things worse.

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