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Just Following Orders? An Open Letter To Our US Military & Their Families
Freedom Outpost
Those who support those who serve also serve. We The People support those who serve to:
“…support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the State (your state) against all enemies, foreign and domestic;” – From the Military Oath of Enlistment
I am a two tour Vietnam Combat Disabled Veteran. My sister is a Vietnam Era Veteran. My Father is a Vietnam Veteran and my Father is a Korean War Veteran. I am a former United States Army Recruiter. My Father was MY U.S. Army Recruiter. And I was a drill instructor at Fort Leonard Wood (Fort Lost In The Woods, aka: Little Korea). If that is not sufficient credentials for you then you might as well hang up your uniforms and march you and your family to the much rumored FEMA camps now and beat the rush.
As a group, there is none that abhors violence and warfare more than do the Combat Veterans and their families. Been there, done that.
As an Army recruiter, I saw less than a handful of reasons for young people to join the military. Some simply wanted to get out of an uncomfortable home life. Some had stars in their eyes and sought a more exciting life than what might be offered in Smallville America. Some simply were too damned proud to ask anything from anybody and chose the military as a means of supporting their families. And very rarely there were those that truly felt an obligation to serve on the front lines of defense of this once great nation and what it once stood for. All of the above, in part, were my motivations for joining the United States Army – four days out of high school – and I never looked back.
I don’t have a formal education but have taught at the college level. And lacking that formal education, I was driven to read – especially HISTORY.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana (1863 -1952)
That simple truth is the single major reason why those who are committed to destroying this once great nation have removed all relevant AMERICAN history from our schools.
When was it a great nation?
When I was a kid.
When honesty was valued over deceit.
When the truth was sought after in court.
When being humble was recognized as virtuous.
When the Police would stop to throw snowballs at you because you started it.
When ones mentality was based on honor instead of selfishness.
When you could do (then) thousands of dollars of business on a handshake instead of (now) requiring a one sided contract.
When what you bought was based on actual value instead of how much the seller could steal from you.
When ones privacy was honored.
When a rich kid looked at his/her poorer playmates with equal eyes and actually took on a protective roll.
When the news papers and TV news actually told you the truth.
When these same news agencies actually persisted with hard questions that kept any semblance of governance honest.
When there was Zero Tolerance for communistic BS and whistle blowers were rewarded.
When people in groups such as the KKK wouldn’t dare be seen in public in their costumes which are now – OMG we mustn’t offend them – seen as simply odd.
When movies were created with some sense of intellectual insight.
When a 6 grade math test was actually difficult. Hell you must get into college now to pass that math test. Today’s 12th graders would fail it. Education here in America is now 32nd out of 33 in the World. Can you even conceive of how astoundingly dumb that is. Not to mention having the poorest of simple English and grammar skills.
When the majority of the American were active and attractive, not sitting on their collective asses, over weight and not attractive while showing us 2/3 of their underwear.
When the Military was actually sent to fight for the Freedom of their own or another country.
It took me about a minute to come up with this, shall I continue?