John Lofton’s exchange with a cashier lady at a local bookstore when buying a newspaper:
ME (gesturing toward “Thank A Soldier” items): “What should I thank them for?”
LADY (after slight pause): “For protecting you.”
ME: “Are they REALLY doing that? Or are they putting me in greater danger because of the unGodly, unConstitutional wars they are waging.”
LADY: “That’s the government’s doing.”
ME: “But I thought the soldiers work for the government.”
LADY: “They are just doing what the government tells them to do.”
ME: “The Nazis at Nuremberg tried that only-following-orders defense and they were hung by the neck until dead.”
LADY: “My son is in the military and I looked at one of his ID cards and it said he is the property of the US government.” She shrugs as if to say, “Ain’t that something?”
