Supporting the troops. Add
punk-rock legend Henry Rollins to your list of anti-idiotarian entertainers. He's touring in Afganistan with USO.
“In America, on the news, we see the exclamation points about this whole thing, casualties, helicopter crashes, because it makes for good news and it’s very important when we lose all those people; but what we never hear about, what I’ve found out today, are all the good things that are happening to this country because of all of you that are here,” Rollins expressed to the crowd. “I’m about to start of 50 or 60 speaking dates all across America and by the time I’m done with them they’ll all know what I saw, so you can count on me for that.”
And kudos to USO for making a non-obvious choice.
Rollins said that when he was asked a few weeks ago by the USO to come out and visit the troops, he instantly agreed to do it. “I didn’t even hesitate,” Rollins said, adding that he agreed not really knowing what to expect, but what he saw was a pleasant surprise. “What I didn’t expect was to meet so many bright, amazing people, who are so focused on their jobs, so highly educated, and so fully intense; and I’m quite in awe.”
(via paleo-Catholic queer punk post-feminist comix fan blogger
Eve Tushnet)
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