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I don’t come from what people call a “military family”.

I come from a family where we all serve though, I’m not aware of any family anything about it, it is just a general patriotism that I guess we all shared, my dad enlisted in 1939 and left in 1945, my step dad served, my little brother served, my older brother, myself, and my step brother all served during the Vietnam war, I served again under Reagan, and my son served in the early 1990s, and of course all the rest, cousins, nephews, uncles, nieces, in-laws.

For a guy who never served, you sure hate those of us who have and do.

Something is wrong with you.

For you to read my comments on the sanctity of marriage and the role of government in marriage and then immediately claim that I have some kind of hatred for the U.S. military (which I never even mentioned in any of my posts until you insisted on bringing that into the discussion) says an awful lot about you.

I was recruited heavily by U.S. military recruiters -- and even two of the military academies -- when I was in high school. Fortunately for me (and unfortunately for others), the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut kept me away from that kind of future. Once I read the details of the stupid rules of engagement for the U.S. Marines in Beirut -- under which the sentries at the barracks were not permitted to have loaded weapons while they stood guard -- I realized that putting your life in the hands of some @ssholes in Washington like that is a bad career move.

And that was under a conservative Republican president, mind you.