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The Twins are holding Armed Services Appreciation Night in the Metrodome Monday, which seems a fitting gesture as our nation endeavors to eliminate the animals who steer commercial jets into buildings and behead innocents in the name of God.

The Twins are offering half-price admission to current and retired military personnel and their families. They also plan to hand out 5,000 G.I. Joe action figures to children. As part of the festivities, Gov. Tim Pawlenty will be on hand to welcome the return of C Company, 142nd Engineer Battalion of the Minnesota National Guard.

The tribute to our military men and women appears genuine and worthy, whether or not you agree with the policies that led to our military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Our military men and women do not make foreign policy. They follow a chain of command that springs from the Pentagon and the White House.

So a tribute, in one of our stadiums of the heartland, is a positive thing, clearly an apolitical event.

Or so you might think.

Nothing, it seems, is free of politics during this mother of all presidential campaigns, as the Twins have learned. Nothing is off-limits to the element of America that subscribes to the money-making, fantasy-filled, conspiracy theories of the tub of lard known as Michael Moore.

At least two peace-loving groups in Minnesota have voiced objections to the doling out of the G.I. Joe action dolls. They see the dolls as a glorification of war, and war, as we learned from World War II historian Steven Spielberg, is an awful thing. You hand a G.I. Joe doll to a young boy, and the next thing you know, he probably will stick women's panties on the doll's head and maybe put it on a mini-leash.

Someone with the Friends for a Non-Violent World says, "It's not a credible way to honor those who've suffered the inhumanity of war."

You always love the titles of these groups: Friends for a Non-Violent World.

Who can argue against Friends for a Non-Violent World?