Deep sigh and shaking my head here...so glad I’m retired and no longer have to deal with the PC BS. I do not encourage anyone to serve in the military nowadays, I have to clamp my mouth closed about my opinions to my active duty stepson, and I am totally not in favor of women being drafted ( I volunteered to serve, I knew what I was going to be doing for my job, and my job was hospital admin, not infantry!)—so now I add the worry over my teen daughter being drafted to the other worries I have as a mother! We are a military family, we volunteered to serve: me, my husband, my dad, his dad, his stepdad, our youngest son, my BIL, my niece’s husband, and so on. Morale is being beaten out of our service members. And after that military service, then we fight the VA for justly earned and well deserved benefits ( my dad exposed to Agent Orange, my BIL and niece’s husband PTSD from wartime activity, my husband exposed to asbestos in the Navy now dealing with mesothelioma... How much we have all given, how much we love our country. Is the mere pleasure of listening to a military band at a mandatory fun social event now too much to expect? Add that to the lousy commissaries overseas, the alcohol ban currently imposed on Navy service members and their spouses in Japan, the numerous deployments to hellholes and the burdens of the families, the diversity push, the rainbow flags, the ban on christianity, and every other insane policy running rampant—when will we see the straw that breaks the camel’s back?
We really are moving in the wrong direction in our country.