Sadly, the public really, wrongly, thinks of the military as some bellicose bubble of conservative flavors.
Is your son deployed anywhere at the moment?
When faced with the Ultimate, I sometimes think of soldiers as modern political suicides. Death is their Ultimate form of protest, and respectfully so, as their Aim is to Protect and Defend. Holding onto that duty isn't always successful or pretty, but to some degree psychologically terrorizing.
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Date: 2004-08-04 02:56 pm (UTC)Sadly, the public really, wrongly, thinks of the military as some bellicose bubble of conservative flavors.
Is your son deployed anywhere at the moment?
When faced with the Ultimate, I sometimes think of soldiers as modern political suicides. Death is their Ultimate form of protest, and respectfully so, as their Aim is to Protect and Defend. Holding onto that duty isn't always successful or pretty, but to some degree psychologically terrorizing.