🚀 go-pugleaf

Thank you.  Though I only enlisted for one term -  slightly post-Vietnam - I
do feel that serving one's country is important; it is however a sad thing
that at times we have been compelled to it.

I look upon the service itself as both honor, and duty.  This in no way
validates the reasons for our many forays into international violence, it's
just that I think you should step up to the plate and give back for the
awesome gift of freedom and liberty that is ours.

Sure, our country's moral sense will ebb and flow, we'll have great people
at the helm, and true dullards, but just because things may seem not to be
at their best, does certainly not mean they are at their worst.  I'll still
take being an American any day over, say, a female living in a country that
routinely practices genital mutilation, or legitimized child prostitution,
or doesn't even attempt to educate their children.

We may not doing our best, for sure, but at least on some level the effort
is being made to raise humanity to a better level.  Consider that as a
society is comprised of individuals, it too will age, and mature, and yes,
eventually die, to be replaced by another.  It's just that the timeframe is
so much more extended.

So, one should not always get too caught up in the day to day minutia, but
also keep an eye on the long term goals.  We must have faith that as things
get worse, so will they improve.


"J Young" <youngopinions@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Allow me to put all political and social disagreements aside, and
> extend to all veterans a heartfelt "Thankyou" for having served your
> country. All of America is in your debt.