Let’s not forget who’s making the real sacrifices for this country.

An F-16 Fighting Falcon returns to mission after receiving fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over the skies of Afghanistan to support Operation Enduring Freedom, May 8, 2011. The Falcon is assigned to the 555th Fighter Squadron based at Aviano Air Base, Italy, and the Stratotanker is assigned to the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron. US Air Force photo by Master Sergeant William Greer.

US Army flight medic SPC. Daniel Miller, right, stands guard as United States Marines place a colleague wounded in an IED strike into a waiting medevac helicopter from the US Army’s Task Force Lift “Dust Off”, Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment at a “hot” landing zone in Sangin, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Friday, May 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

35th commandant of the US Marine Corps General James Amos (C) meets with marines from 2nd Battalion 8 Marine (2/8) Headquarters and Support Company, Fox Company, Weapons Company and Golf Company at Camp Hanson in Marjah, Helmand Province, on May 13, 2011 during his one week visit. The death of Osama bin Laden has revived a debate over the pace of a planned US troop withdrawal in Afghanistan and the rationale for a war that has dragged on for nearly a decade. AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO (Photo credit should read BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)

U.S. Marines run through dust kicked up by a Black Hawk helicopter from Task Force Lift “Dust Off”, Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment as they rush a colleague wounded in an IED strike for evacuation near Sangin, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

US Marine Staff Sergeant Victor Hurd from Combat Operation Patrol (COP) Bandini of 2nd Batallion 8 Marine (2/8) Weapons Company 81’s Platoon and an Afghanistan National Army soldier (rear, partially obscured) open fire during an insurgent attack on their base in Sistani, Helmand Province, on May 12, 2011. About 150,000 foreign troops — 100,000 of them US forces — are deployed in Afghanistan in a protracted counter-insurgency campaign against the Taliban, which was ousted in a US invasion in 2001 for its support for Al-Qaeda. (AFP PHOTO)

U.S. Army Sgt. Johnny Hoyos pulls security above the prisoner courtyard as members of Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul and 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, visit the Zabul Provincial Prison in Qalat, Afghanistan, in this photo provided by ISAF Regional Command (South), May 11, 2011. (REUTERS)

US Army flight medic SSG. Bob Winchester of Alaska runs in the lead as United States Marines rush a wounded colleague, who was shot during an exchange of fire with insurgents, to a waiting medevac helicopter from the US Army’s Task Force Lift “Dust Off”, Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment at a “hot” landing zone north of Sangin, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

US Army flight crew chief SPC. Jenny Martinez holds her weapon as she secures the area in dust kicked up by a Blackhawk helicopter from Task Force Lift “Dust Off”, Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment while awaiting the evacuation of a United States Marine wounded in an IED strike near Sangin, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

US Army flight medic SPC. Daniel Miller, right, provides security as United States Marines rush a colleague wounded in an IED strike to a waiting medevac helicopter from the US Army’s Task Force Lift “Dust Off”, Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation Regiment at a “hot” landing zone in Sangin, in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Friday, May 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)