Tired of Bad Publicity

“Charlie Sheen is all over the news this week because he's a rambling train wreck. Justin Bieber was all over the news because he got a hair cut. While Andrew Wilfahrt 31, Brian Tabada 21, Rudolph Hizon 22, Chauncy Mays 25, Christopher Stark 22, Kristopher Gould 25, David Fahey 23 are all soldiers who gave their lives this week with no media mention.” 

So this quote has been circulating around people’s Facebook statuses this week and I couldn’t agree with it more.  I am so sick and tired of hearing about overpaid celebrities who are going crazy or sharing every aspect of themselves for the world to know.  All of the publicity Charlie Sheen has received for saying things about the creator of the show that made him millions and getting that show cancelled is so boring.  I don’t care what he does with his life.  He is a human being and will live his life as he pleases.  I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t even know if one of us disappeared, so why are we going to sit here and judge every decision he chooses to make with his life?  Because of his ridiculous amounts of money, he instantly gets all the media coverage from everywhere.

There are men and women sacrificing their lives each and every day and our society is so stuck on money that they focus on where wealth is rather than the people giving up their lives so we can live ours freely.  If it weren’t for these men and women, Charlie Sheen would NOT have the opportunities to say the things he has to the people he did, he wouldn’t have a job where he makes something like $1.25 million an episode or something ridiculous like that; we wouldn’t be able to get outrageously expensive haircuts, we wouldn’t have any of those things.  I’m sick of seeing these things in the news. 

Now don’t get me wrong, death is a very depressing thing and it isn’t something we want to hear about all the time.  But here’s the thing, we should be acknowledging the lives these men and women spent and the good they have done.  Yes, the circumstances aren’t the greatest, but we should be spending the time and news coverage that has been devoted to people such as Charlie Sheen, to these men and women and their suffering families. 

I feel like in society today, we are so undeserving of the military we have been blessed with.  People like Charlie Sheen make me feel guilty for having people give their lives for our freedoms because all most Americans do is take these freedoms for granted.  He says bad things about the people who have helped to bring him to where he is today and then expects them to keep his show.  Who really cares.  Why don’t we instead focus on people sacrificing their lives for our safety and why don’t we give them the publicity they deserve.