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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
You know its always amazing to me the stuff I read here from those "against" and the personal conversations I have with people actually serving in the military. I can honestly say I have not talked to one single military person that doesnt think like your son. Im not saying those people arent out there, Im just saying that in the areas of my life where I know military people...they 100% agree that people who think like host are holding them back from accomplishing anything over there
They are the ones in the middle of this, they are the ones that day after day see for themselves what is going on and have to handle the situations that come up. They are the ones sweating and dying for a cause they believe in....do you really think you're going to change his opinion? And even if you were able to, dont you think that would put him in a bad situation?
I really dont think sending him any of that would benefit in anyway at all.
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me being in the military (army) and being deployed, we do not look that deep into it.
we dont look at the cause or that stuff. we look at it, as we are all in "shit" together, so we all make the best of it. we all take care of eachother.
how to make our lives easier in that place.
the only ones that really felt that they were "doing great things." were the younger troops, the ignorant troops, that took all that the higher ups told them. not having a mind thier own.
i NEVER saw any of my fellow troops that said, "man it feels good to be here" or "man i liked helping this haji." "we are doing great things here."
they wanted to do their time. that was it. everyone i know in the military doesnt believe what we are over there for, but we understand that we signed that paper that says they can do with us, what they want. so we try to make the best of it.
it has nothing to do with him going over there or not. it has to do with his opened mind. if he is stubborn, (like most military men are.) then do not show him. it will just get him mad.
what the ones that got sent over there hate the most is when someone that didnt see what they saw, tell them anything about what they think about it.
we have a right to say things about what we saw and did and how we felt about being over there. why? because we had to suffer through it.
we dont want anything but to know you respect our way of seeing it. thats it.
we are not better than the next man. we made a choice and we made the best of it.