I was going to write a blog that imagines what the world today if the military was liberal. But considering the tragedy at Fort Hood on Friday I decided to leave it alone for now. This post is a tribute the brave men and women that died at the hands of a crack pot. There is no difference between him and the man that shot up a building the next day in Florida. I am not going to mention the names of either of them because they do not deserve the attention that the left-stream media is giving both of them.

My heart goes out to the families of the victims of the travesty. I salute the brave officer that stopped that clown even though she was wounded. You did great, get well soon. To my fellow brothers and sisters in arms, you showed the world what it means to be an American fighting man or woman. Unlike most of your counterparts in the civilian world, you did not run. You stopped to help the wounded and some of you did it under fire. It is people like you in the military that make me really proud to be an American. You showed the world what you are made of.

To the families and victims in the Florida travesty, my heart goes out to you as well. You are in my prayers.

It is pretty much accepted even among but a few of the loony left that the man that shot up the building in Florida was a nut job that blamed other people for his problems and decided to kill them. But why are they making excuses for the Fort Hood shooter? Here is a hint, he was Muslim and Muslims are a protected group, protected by the left. The other guy was a crazy white guy; if he had a religious preference it probably was Christian a non-protected group. And we all know how the left feels about Christians. Now I don't know if he did what he did because he was Muslim. There is some speculation that he did. But that is all it is, speculation. If he did it because he was a Muslim fanatic or not, he was still a nut case either way there is no excuse for it. Some in the left-stream media are blaming post traumatic stress for it. He never went to war! Yes he had to listen to the stories from the solders that returning from the war. But getting the stories second hand is not the same as experiencing it. If that was an excuse why are there not more army physiatrist shooting up people? Do you think he was the only one? I have heard reports that there are up to one million military members who claim to be Muslim. They are not shooting up the bases. This nutcase is not the victim. The people he shot are the victims.

It has been reported that he did not want to go to war to kill other Muslims. So what, in WWII German-Americans killed Germans and Italian-Americans killed Italians. No one put a gun to his head and made him join the Army and take the army's money to put him through medical school. He did it all on his own. We have been at war with Muslim-extremist since the first gulf war. Are they trying to tell us in the 18 years since he thought he could go his entire carrier without once being asked to go to war in the Mid East? Sorry, I just don't buy it. I understand he was trying to get out, which has not been confirmed yet that I have heard. The press does not realize when the military pays to put someone through school; they expect a commitment for a specific number of years. If they were not letting him out, it would have been because of that commitment. Because he was a doctor, he would not have been fighting. He would have been behind the lines not expected to be in combat unless the area he was in was attacked which would have been unlikely. So this whole not wanting to kill other Muslims is crap.

The left-stream media should be ashamed of themselves for trying to make excuses for this man, in doing so they diminish the real victims by his hand. The media is also diminishing the strength of our armed forces. These are not victims they can politicize. These are the strongest of our young people that deal with death and destruction for a living. And they do it to protect you. The people in the military are much stronger emotionally then those in the left-stream media are willing to give them credit for. They act like these are regular civilians; they are not, they are better, they were trained for things like this. As one solider put it, I feel betrayed by one of our own, we are suppose to be family. What makes this different is that the soldiers that died were not killed on some distant battle field but here on our own soil. I am not making light of the emotions that these brave people might feel right now. Nor do I make light of the emotional stress of soldiers returning from war that had actually experienced what the nut job only heard about. But the media is looking to blame anyone and everything on this except the man that committed this unforgivable act. I imagine they are looking for ways to make the Florida shooter the victim also. Blame Bush, he has been your scapegoat for the last 9 years.

I beg all of you; please do not use this incident as a reason to commit acts of violence against other Americans that happen to be Muslim. American Muslims are not the enemy.

Fair winds and following seas,

Sailor Ray