Being a retired Marine, I don’t have any problem with Mitt and his boys never serving in the military in a free society. I fought for their right to do that. The second amendment isn’t about the military anyways. There are plenty of strong supporters of the 2nd amendment who never served in the military. My beef with Mitt is not that he didn’t serve but that he’s a gun grabber.
I do have a problem with Mitt avoiding military service while his father campaigned as the GOP antiwar Presidential candidate during a war, and then Mitt’s five sons, all military age, avoiding service while their father campaigned to be president during war.
When I found out that no Romney man has ever served our nation in uniform since they arrived here before the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, etc. , well, I decided that this is more than a coincidence, this is a family whose agenda, includes not backing our nation for some private reasons that they have within their hidden relationship to the American people.
It doesn’t help that now Romney claims to have longed in many ways to serve in Vietnam .
As a vet, I also have no issue with those who choose not to server.
That being said, it does raise an eyebrow that there are six men (the father and five sons) in the family, yet not a single one of them served their country in any capacity whatsoever.
It makes me wonder if there couldn't some issue at hand - like Dad/Grandad advising against it or perhaps them having some other type of compunction. A mindset of thinking it's beneath them?
Not saying that's the case, but it seems odd to have an entire prominent family of American men shun military service.