But most of the enlisted ranks, especially the females, do NOT believe about America what my parents believed about America or her freedoms from the 1930s through the 1960s. They love America, but it is NOT the same America that they love. They do not have the moral fabric my father had. They do not have the same view toward manhood, womanhood, family, and childrearing. It is not the same America they are defending . . . . they only THINK it is.
No, it isn’t the same, but they do what they can to defend the one that they have inherited. And they love it and will die for it just like our fathers did when called upon to do so.
I am in a military family, too, and I can tell you that my son has the same goals and the same love for country as my husband did and my father did. He is career and will do what it takes to keep us safe. I have no qualms about THAT!