Junglewalk, I got your email and replied today. It irritates me when I hear about self-aggrandizing people like John Kerry getting three Purple Hearts for minor wounds (some self-inflicted), for which he did not spend one day in the hospital. However, it just puts me over the top with anger and disappointment to know there are brave, loyal, self-sacrificing Americans like you out there, who were burned from the neck down (in a tank in Vietnam) and spent over a year recovering in the hospital, only to receive one Purple Heart.
Is that justice? No. Yet, it gives me tremendous joy to live in a free nation: the greatest nation on earth.
Every time an American votes, salutes "Old Glory," strives to protect the Constitution and its Bill of Rights, obeys the laws of God and men (Remember: God's laws always come before man's laws, including the right of self-defense, reitterated and modified in the 2nd Amendment to "security of a free State"), aides the weak among us, writes to soldiers in the field, and remembers those who have sacrificed so much, he or she honors all veterans and is an exemplary American. Most important of all, we will not remain a great nation, unless we are also a just nation, a religious nation. The founding fathers said as much and, in the Holy Bible we find, in Micah 6:8, "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" 
Best Regards, Walter
P.S. Does this mean pre-emptively nuking people is wrong?

Probably, but there is always our God-given right of self defense.
P.P.S. J.W., I knew you were kidding in your post, but sometimes I like to spout-off to move the fence-sitters, whoever they are! Yes, the description in your email reflects some of my personality. I do like to type/ write with the occasional, or sometimes more than occasional, drink in a dimly lit room of dark wood paneling, while sitting in a comfortably stuffed leather chair. I don't smoke, but I have always enjoyed the smell of pipe tobacco. I guess you could call that second-hand smoking.:-)