No. I'm not being shot at and washing my friends blood out of my clothes. And I thank god everyday that there are an amazing group of people that put others lives before mine so that I may be safe from the horrors they face everyday. I understand that Kevin's overall message is that instead of marching in protest in our birkenstocks we should make sure we vote next week, but you're also missing the message that I'm trying to say. Should a soldier that wakes up everyday wondering if he'll make it through to the next evening care about getting a little piece of home, a little piece if innocence? At that moment, probably not. But maybe, for a split second, that soldier forgets that he's sitting in a foxhole in the sand, tired, dirty, and unsure of what the day will bring. And that 6 year old will learn to love that un-named service man or woman. And maybe one day, when he or she is serving, he/she will get a letter from a little child and remember their innocence.
Should we be over there? Initially. We made one mistake: We should have pulled our guys out and dropped a bomb and leveled the place. Then we wouldn't need to have this conversation.
And I did wear the uniform. I didn't go to basic, but I trained for three long years, humped a ruck for miles, had to qualify at the range, put up with arrogant women-hating a$$holes, run PT everyday...I love my country and the people who fight to protect it. Period.
Should we be over there? Initially. We made one mistake: We should have pulled our guys out and dropped a bomb and leveled the place. Then we wouldn't need to have this conversation.
And I did wear the uniform. I didn't go to basic, but I trained for three long years, humped a ruck for miles, had to qualify at the range, put up with arrogant women-hating a$$holes, run PT everyday...I love my country and the people who fight to protect it. Period.
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