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We’re driving by Fort Drum in northern NY, the home of the 10th Mountain Division . This is probably the group of soldiers that’s the most chewed up and spit out by our military system.

These poor kids have done at least three tours and I bet 90% of them haven’t spent much longer than an year and a half at home through the duration of this war. The main entrance to the base is called Iraqi Freedom drive.

While acknowledging how horrible all this is the Queen of My Universe and I have been thinking about ways which, if we lived up here, we could capitalize on this mil-prole environment. Of course, Dollar General, Mister Dollar, Ponderosa, McDonald’s and Wal-Mart have already staked their ostentatious claims, so we were thinking of something smaller with a gimmick.

It would be have to be something with little or no overhead, like a roadside stand of some sort. Then we were trying to think of something unique we could sell there to make it more of a destination to the soldiers and farmers in the area. Then it hit me.

We could make “Support our Troops” hot pretzels. We could twist them into the shape of the magnetic more-patriotic-than-thou faux ribbons that still adorn many cars. We could shape our synthetic salt product into the letters “support our troops” or, failing that, simply get star shaped synthetic salt product.

God Bless America.

Further down the road though, we saw this interesting magnet.

Filed under: General Observations, Politics on July 24th, 2008