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The Real Stars
Ben Stein, the guy who said, “Bueller…Bueller,” has a new book out called The Real Stars. The Book is a collection of essays arguing that the real stars in the world are not the Hollywood types like Paris Hilton or Brad Pitt, but the men and women who wear the military uniform and fight to keep America a free country. According to Barnes and Noble, one of the essays circulated on the internet a while ago and became one of the most widely circulated pieces in internet history. Here’s a small portion of the essay:
“How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today’s world, if by a “star” we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model? Real stars are not riding around in the backs of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese girls do their nails. They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer.
A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit, Iraq. He could have been met by a bomb or a hail of AK-47 bullets. Instead, he faced an abject Saddam Hussein and the gratitude of all of the decent people of the world. A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad. He approached it, and the bomb went off and killed him. A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad.”
I think the ironic thing is that everyone who reads this book, or hears Ben Stein speak on the subject, will agree (except this idiot), but nothing will change…
Here’s a video of Ben Stein talking about his book: Ben Stein: The Real Stars
